WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
 >> Despite being down 13 points in the final five minutes, freshman Landon Moore (Bloomington, Ill.) powered a 20-10 run to end the game with 10 points and Saint Francis had a chance to tie the game in the waning seconds of the game against Cornell in non-conference men's basketball action on Monday. The Big Red defeated Saint Francis 80-77.
>> Moore scored the last seven points of the game for the Red Flash including an acrobatic 3-pointer with eight seconds left to cut the margin to 79-77. After a made free throw, Moore raced down the floor and heaved a half-court shot that fell short as time expired.
>> Josh Cohen (Lincroft, N.J.) paced Saint Francis with 24 points and eight rebounds.
>> Moore finished with 15 points, while Maxwell Land (Cincinnati, Ohio) registered his second double-double of the season with 13 points and 11 rebounds. Marlon Hargis (Mays Landing, N.J.) added 12 points.

TURNING POINT OF THE GAME
Saint Francis outscored Cornell 37-17 in the final five minutes of both halves combined. Cornell controlled the scoring in the other 30 minutes, holding a 32-23 lead in the first half at the five-minute and a 70-57 lead with five minutes remaining in regulation.
 
FLASH QUOTES
"I think to start the game we were a little stuck in the mud in terms of getting back and playing at their pace. To these guys' credit, they didn't fold and they continued to battle. We made some plays in the first half that got us back into the game. The one thing about these guys is they are not going to hang their heads. They are going to continue to compete and battle. They are going to put us in a position to, even after a stretch in the second half where I didn't think we performed very well but have a shot to tie it in the end." – head coach Rob Krimmel on the game
 
"It's a credit to what got him here. I think his biggest strength is his ability to play with a level head, not to get too high or too low. I think that learning to play with Josh and Max as we work to find combinations that's going to be a challenge. But when you have a guy like that as a freshman that has a high basketball IQ competes and can-do multiple things with the ball in his hands it makes Josh's job easier, and it makes Max's job easier." – Krimmel on Moore
 
"I think we just got to stick to our principles and the things that we work on in practice. A couple times on their runs they were doing all things that we prepared for and stopped them from doing. I think its just a matter of watching film and facing the things we know we can do." - Land on the game

"Especially with playing a lot of freshmen, we had some guys hurt – just finding out different ways we can win basketball games. I think that's the biggest thing for us. Last year we struggled with it. I think the only thing that can happen for us is we get better at it throughout the next couple games – throughout the whole season. We are just taking it game by game." - Cohen on the game
 
FLASH MOMENTS
Trailing 23-9 with 9:55 left in the first half, the Loretto program closed the half on a 31-16 run to take a 40-39 edge going into the locker room. Hargis and Land led the way with nine points in the final 10 minutes and Cohen had seven points.
 
In the final 4:27 of that run, the Red Flash went on a 15-4 run to close the half. Land had a big dunk for the second-straight game in the spurt at 3:47 and Hargis gave the Loretto program its first lead on a trey at the 2:11 mark. Wisler Sanon II (Sicklerville, N.J.) led this portion of the run with four points. The two teams traded the lead at the start of the second half before Cam Gregory (Accokeek, Md.) gave the Frankies the lead for the final time on a free throw with 17:02 left.
 
Despite Gregory giving the Red Flash its final lead, Saint Francis had one more run left to nearly tie the game. Trailing 70-57 with 5:11 left, the Red Flash went on a 20-10 run to make it a one-possession game. Moore led the way with 10 points in the spurt while Cohen had eight points.
  
FLASH NUGGETS
Cohen notched his second 20-point game of the season and a season high with his 24 points. It is the third-most points he has scored in a single game. Cohen moves over 500 points for his career. He is averaging 18.8 points and 7.8 rebounds per game in his last 10 games dating back to last season. Cohen has five 20-point games in that stretch, including three games with 23 points or more, and has grabbed at least six rebounds in all 10 contests. He also added a season-high four assists.
 
Land, who crossed 500 career points in the win on Saturday thanks to a career-best 26 points, notched his second double-double of the season with 13 points and a career-best 11 rebounds. The junior came into the season with no double-doubles and a career-high nine rebounds and through three games he has eclipsed double-digit in boards twice. Land has scored double figures in six-straight home games and 11 of 12 contests at DeGol Arena in the last two seasons.
 
Moore, the current Northeast Conference Rookie of the Week, became the first Red Flash freshman since Darshan Luckey in 2002-03 to post double figures in points in three straight games. He matched his career-high of 15 points that he set at St. Bonaventure on November 7 and dished out at least four assists for the third time this season. Through three games, Moore leads the team in assists (17) and ranks third behind Land and Cohen in scoring (14.7 ppg.) and rebounding (4.3 rpg.).
 
Hargis had his best game of the season with 12 points. The redshirt senior, who had a Saint Francis career-best 17 points against Cornell last season on the road, registered double figures for the first time in a game since posting 13 points against Mount St. Mary's on February 12, 2022. Hargis had eight double-figure point games last season and now has 14 in his career.
 
Sanon finished with a career-high five points.

NEXT TIME OUT
Saint Francis returns to action on Thursday at Butler, a team that was also playing on Monday night 45 minutes down the road from Loretto at Penn State. Tipoff is set for 6:31 p.m. and will be aired on Fox Sports 2.