ITHACA, N.Y. - Playing on the road for the fifth consecutive game, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's basketball team could not overcome a long scoreless drought in the first half and the Engineers lost to Ithaca College 63-52 in a Liberty League game at Ben Light Gymnasium. The Bombers improve their overall record to 12-6 and are now 8-3 in the conference, while RPI drops to 13-6 and 7-5.