BERKELEY, Calif. — AK Okereke scored 24 points and Cooper Norad scored 21 points and Cornell withstood a furious second-half surge from Cal to beat the Golden Bears 88-80 on Tuesday.

Nazir Williams added 18 points and Jake Fiegen 11 for the Big Red (7-3), who defeated an Atlantic Coast Conference team for the first time since December 1951, four years before Disneyland’s debut.

Joshua Ola-Joseph scored 21 points to lead the Golden Bears. Mady Sissoko scored 13 points on 6-for-6 shooting. Andrej Stojakovic scored 13 points, reserve Jeremiah Wilkinson 12 and Jovan Blacksher Jr. 11.

Cal (6-4) turned a 52-29 deficit with 18:14 to play into a 72-71 lead with a 3-pointer from Stojakovic with 5:15 left. Undeterred, Cornell’s Guy Ragland Jr. sank a 3-pointer 15 seconds later and Cornell never trailed again.

Noard’s jump shot gave Cornell a 32-18 lead with 6:31 left before halftime. The Big Red finished the first half shooting 20-36 (55.6%) for a 47-29 halftime lead.

Cal, which averaged 13 turnovers per game, reached the mark before halftime. Cornell scored the same number of points off Cal’s turnovers.

Cornell began the second half with a 5-0 start as Fiegen made three free throws and Okereke made a basket to give the Big Red their largest lead.

It was only the third meeting between the two teams and the first in almost 32 years. Cal lost their last meeting 74-54 on December 30, 1992 at the Seton Hall Meadowlands Classic in South Orange, New Jersey.

Before Tuesday’s 73-game losing streak, Cornell had lost 42 straight games to the ACC.

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