ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – The Ithaca College men's basketball team secured a top two seed and a home game in the upcoming Liberty League Championship after a 90-78 win at Bard College on Friday evening. Ithaca, which remains in first in the Liberty League standings, is 17-7 on the season and 13-4 in league play. A win tomorrow at Vassar or a loss by St. Lawrence will give the Bombers hosting rights for the entire league tournament.

Bard hit the opening shot of the game, a 3-pointer, but after buckets from George Sikoryak III and Liam Spellman by the 17:25 mark put IC ahead, 4-3, the Bombers never trailed again.

With 13:47 to go in the half, Noah Downing drilled a three to put IC up by seven points at 13-6 for the first two-possession lead of the contest. Bard pulled back to within a point at 15-14 with 11:45 to go, but Ithaca answered with a 14-3 run over the next 4:30 to create a 12-point lead.

During that run, Downing scored seven more points and Zach Warech netted four. Luka Radovich also added three points to jump start his 26-point, 15-rebound effort in his fifth-straight double-double. Radovich went 10-for-16 from the field with three steals and two blocks.

IC controlled the rest of the first half from there and went into intermission with a 43-32 lead.

The Bombers returned to the floor for the final 20 minutes and went on a 10-0 run to get things underway to grow their lead to 21 points at 53-32. Radovich scored five more points during this run, while Logan Wendell and Warech accounted for the other five points.

Ithaca built its largest lead of the contest at 76-47 with 9:06 to go as Liam Spellman connected on a 3-pointer. The Raptors would string together a 31-12 spurt of the final nine points to account for the 90-78 final.

Wendell finished with 16 points, while Downing added 13 with five rebounds and three steals. Warech added nine points and Triston Wennersten chipped in seven.

IC shot 52.3% from the field (34-for-65) and went 10-for-23 from 3-point range. The Bombers also scored 21 points off turnovers.

The Bombers will head to Vassar tomorrow for a 4 p.m. contest.