BASKETBALL GAME CENTRAL

THIS WEEK
Sat., Dec. 4 - vs. New Hampshire 2:00 p.m. EST

The Colgate University men's basketball team will return home to face New Hampshire on Saturday (Dec. 4). The game is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. at Cotterell Court.

THE SERIES WITH NEW HAMPSHIRE
This will be the 31st meeting between Colgate and New Hampshire with the Wildcats leading the all-time series 18-12. New Hampshire won last season, 63-55 in Durham, N.H. The Raiders last win over the Wildcats came in 2007, 49-46, at Durham.

BASKETBALL GAME CENTRAL
Raider fans can follow every Colgate game this season through Basketball Game Central located on the Colgate Athletic Website. Basketball Game Central keeps fans one click away from following live stats, listening to the radio or watching the game live. Basketball Game Central also carries all the information on each opponent from who is leading the all-time series to who won the last game.

SCOUTING COLGATE (0-5)
The Raiders are coming off an 80-63 setback to Dartmouth on Saturday (Nov. 27) and have started 0-5 for the second straight season. Colgate has lost 13-straight games in the month of November with its last win coming against Dartmouth, 65-60, in 2008.

Juniors Yaw Gyawu (Lilburn, Ga.) and Mike Venezia (Westfield, N.J.) lead the Raiders in scoring averaging 13.6 and 9.8 points per game, respectively. Gyawu also leads the team with 5.8 rebounds per game.

Sophomore center John Brandenburg (St. Louis, Mo.) along with freshman guard Pat Moore (Utica, N.Y.) are coming off career-high outings against Dartmouth with 10 and 14 points, respectively, while sophomore guard Mitch Rolls (Coffeyville, Kan.) recorded his second-straight game of 14 points in the loss.

SCOUTING NEW HAMPSHIRE (4-2)
New Hampshire enters Saturday's game after coming up short against No. 7 Connecticut, 62-55, on Tuesday (Nov. 30). The Wildcats held a, 24-23, halftime lead and stayed within a point, 49-48, late in the second half before an 8-0 run sealed the victory for the Huskies.

Sophomore Ferg Myrick poured in a season-high 19 points, including 16 in the second half in the loss and leads the team with 13.8 per game. Senior Tyrone Conley is second on the team in scoring with 12.5 points per game while classmate Dane Diliegro is averaging 11.0 ppg. Diliegro also leads the team with 9.2 rebounds per game.

ROLLS WARMING UP
After opening the first three games of the season with a total of seven points and eight assists, sophomore point guard Mitch Rolls has begun to warm-up. Rolls recorded back-to-back 14-point outings to go along with 10 assists over the last two games and has increased his scoring from 2.3 points per game to 7.0 and his assists from 2.6 per game to 3.6.

RAIDERS ANNOUNCE 2010-11 TEAM CAPTAINS
Head coach Emmett Davis has announced that senior Joe Hoban along with juniors Mike Venezia and Yaw Gyawu have been selected as team captains for the 2010-11 season. The captain's selection was the result of a team vote. Venezia is serving as a captain for the second straight season.

THE DAVIS FILE
Head coach Emmett Davis (St. Lawrence, 1984) is in his 13th year in charge at Colgate, owning the most wins in school history with 158.

During coach Davis' decade long tenure, the Colgate program has been a model of consistency. In nine of his 12 seasons, Davis has led the Raiders to either the upper division of the Patriot League standings or advanced the team to the semifinals or finals of the conference tournament. From 2001-2004 the Raiders finished with three consecutive regular season winning records (2001-02…17-10, 2002-03…14-13, and 2003-04…14-13) and in 2007-08 the Raiders tied the school record for wins in a season with 18.

Davis reached another career milestone in November 2005, as Colgate defeated Matt Doherty's Florida Atlantic team 78-74 earning coach Davis his 100th career victory making him just the fifth coach in school history to win 100 games.