HAMILTON, N.Y. (12/19/05) - The Colgate men's basketball team (5-5) takes to the road for its next six games, beginning with Tuesday night's non-conference game against Harvard (7-3) at the Lavietes Pavilion in Cambridge, Mass.  Tip-off is 7 p.m.

 

    The Raiders will be looking for their first road win of the season after dropping all four this season away from Cotterell Court.  They do have a neutral site win over Utah Valley State in the first round of the Guardians Classic.

 

    On Saturday afternoon, the Raiders snapped a two-game losing streak with a 72-47 win over Hobart College.

 

    Colgate comes into Tuesday's game with a 12-5 series record against Harvard, including a victory in the last three appearances at Lavietes Pavilion.  The Crimson, however, won last year's meeting in Hamilton 85-82 in overtime.

 

    Through 10 games, Colgate's leading scorer is sophomore guard Kyle Roemer with 12.7 points per game.  Senior guard Alvin Reed is averaging 9.7, and sophomore forward Kendall Chones and junior guard Jon Simon are close behind with 8.8 and 8.4, respectively. 

 

    Colgate is averaging 58.5 points per game, and its opponents are scoring 59.3 points per contest.  The Raiders are leading the Patriot League in scoring defense.

 

    Colgate is out-rebounding its opponents by an average of 33.9 to 31.5 per game.  Sophomore Kyle Chones is leading the way with a Patriot League best 7.4 boards per game.  Kendall Chones is grabbing 4.1 rebounds per game, and Roemer is hitting the glass at a rate of 3.7 per game.

 

    Harvard is riding a two-game winning streak with wins over Long Island (91-79) and Albany (61-48).  The Crimson opened their season with five straight victories defeating Vermont, Holy Cross, Sacred Heart, UC-Davis and New Hampshire, before suffering a three-game skid against Central Connecticut, Boston University and Lehigh.

 

    The Crimson have four players averaging double figures led by Matt Stehle with 12.2 points per game, followed closely by Jim Goffredo (14.3), Brian Cusworth (12.7) and Drew Housman (11.0).  Stehle is the leading rebounder with 8.7 caroms per game, while Cusworth hauls in 6.5 rebounds per game and Michael Beal 6.4.

 

    Harvard is averaging 70.0 points per game, while yielding 64.3.  They are shooting 44.2 percent from the field, 33 percent from behind the arc and .736 from the charity stripe.

 

    Following the Harvard game, Colgate will break for the Christmas holiday, before participating in the State Farm Sun Bowl Tournament on Dec. 27-28 in El Paso, Texas.  They will stay on the road for a non-conference game at Stony Brook on Jan. 2, before opening their Patriot League season with away contests at Army (Jan. 7) and Lafayette (Jan. 11).

 

    The Raiders will return home on Jan. 14, when they play host to American University.