CORTLAND, N.Y. – The Cortland women's basketball team reached the 20-win mark for the second straight season and the 16th time in program history with a 69-56 win over visiting Geneseo to close out the regular-season schedule. 
 
Cortland (20-4, 16-2 SUNYAC) is the SUNYAC regular-season champion and will host the conference tournament semifinals and finals on Friday-Saturday, Feb. 25-26. 
 
Geneseo (16-9, 12-6 SUNYAC), which had its nine-game winning streak snapped, will be the third seed and will sixth-seeded Fredonia in the first round Tuesday night. Fifth-seeded Oneonta will play at fourth-seeded Buffalo State in Tuesday's other first-round game. The Geneseo/Fredonia winner will face second-seeded New Paltz in the semifinals at Cortland Friday at 5:30 p.m., with Cortland playing the Buffalo State/Oneonta winner Friday at 7:30 p.m. The championship game will be Saturday at 4 p.m. at Cortland. 
 
Maggie Malone (Cornwall) led Cortland with a career-high tying 22 points. She made 5-of-7 shots from 3-point range (8-for-15 overall) and also had six rebounds and three steals. Malone scored 16 of her points in the first half to help the Red Dragons take a 35-19 halftime lead. 
 
Casey Travers (Manorville/Eastport-South Manor) finished with 12 points and matched her career high with five assists. Nyia Longford (Medford/Longwood) scored 11 points and Sarah Tully (East Aurora) finished with eight points and a team-high seven rebounds. Shannon McGuire (West Babylon) led the Red Dragons with six assists. 
 
Kiley Snow was the lone double-figure scorer for Geneseo with 14 points, 12 in the second half. She hit 4-of-9 shots from the 3-point line. Hannah Stockman tallied nine points and Kerry Dennin had seven points, 10 rebounds and three assists. 
 
Cortland led 17-12 after a tightly played first quarter, with Malone scoring 11 of the Red Dragons' 17 points. Leading 21-16 midway through the second, Cortland scored seven straight points, five by Malone, to take a 28-16 lead. The hosts also finished the last 1:33 of the half on a 7-0 streak, capped by a Corinne Miedreich (Pearl River) 3-pointer in the waning seconds, to take their 16-point halftime lead. The advantage remained in double figures the entire second half. 
 
Cortland shot 47 percent from the floor overall and 53 percent (9-of-17) from the arc. Geneseo was 37 percent overall and 41 percent (7-of-17) from deep. The Red Dragons held a 22-7 lead in points off turnovers as the Knights turned the ball over 20 times compared to 11 by Cortland. 
 
Prior to the game, Cortland honored graduate student McGuire and seniors Julia Siler (Seaford) and Jess Womble (Wheatley Heights/Half Hollow Hills East). All three of them were in the Red Dragons' starting lineup.