BASKETBALL GAME CENTRAL

THIS WEEK
Sat., Jan. 8 - vs. Army 2:00 p.m. EST

The Colgate University men's basketball team will open Patriot League play on Saturday (Jan. 8) against Army. The game is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. at Cotterell Court and can be seen live on Patriot League All-Access.

THE SERIES WITH ARMY
This will be the 107th meeting between Colgate and Army with the Raiders leading the all-time series 54-52. The two schools split their series last season with each team winning at home. Colgate won the first meeting 68-58 in overtime, before dropping the second matchup at West Point 63-49.

RAIDERS IN PL OPENERS
The Colgate Raiders are 8-4 overall in Patriot League openers under head coach Emmett Davis and have won six straight against Army. The last League opener that Colgate lost was to Lafayette (97-86) during the 2003-04 season.

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 (1-12, 0-0 PL)
The Raiders are coming off a 95-40 loss at Maryland on Tuesday (Jan. 4) after an 80-61 thumping of Longwood on Sunday (Jan. 2). The win snapped an 11-game losing streak to start the season and improved Colgate's record on January 2nd to 3-1. Colgate's worst start was 0-13 during the 1986-87 season. That team finished the season 4-23 overall.

Colgate opened the Longwood game with a 5-0 run and never looked back as it led from start to finish for the win. Longwood trimmed the Raiders lead to 5-4 early in the first half, but that was as close as the Lancers would get. Colgate responded with a 12-2 run to build a 17-6 lead with 11:33 remaining. The Raiders then finished the half with a 27-15 run to take a 44-21 lead into the locker room.

Sophomore forward Brandon James (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and junior center Nick Pascale (DeWitt, N.Y.) both posted double-doubles as James finished with 15 points and 10 rebounds, while Pascale scored 13 and grabbed a career-high 15 boards. The 15 rebounds by Pascale are the most by a Raider since Alex Woodhouse grabbed the same amount against Lehigh during the 2007-08 season.

Freshman guard Pat Moore (Utica, N.Y.) and junior forward Yaw Gyawu (Lilburn, Ga.) also reached double digits in scoring with 12 and 10 points, respectively, while senior captain Joe Hoban (West Chester, Pa.) pitched in nine points and eight assists. Sophomore center John Brandenburg (St. Louis, Mo.) scored seven points and grabbed a career-high eight rebounds.

Gyawu and Hoban lead Colgate in scoring averaging 11.8 and 9.3 points per game, respectively. Pascale is the leader on the boards with 6.0 rebounds per game.

SCOUTING ARMY (8-7, 0-0 PL)
The Black Knights enter Saturday's game 8-7 overall and have won three of their last four games including a 67-47 thumping of Dartmouth on Monday (Jan. 3). Army is also 5-4 on the road this season.

The Black Knights have three players that average double digits in scoring led by Julian Simmons with 16.5 points per game, which ranks third in the Patriot League. Army is also receiving 14.7 points per game from Jeremy Hence and 13.1 from Ella Ellis. Hence leads the Black Knights with 5.8 rebounds per game.

CLOSING IN ON 1,000
Junior forward Yaw Gyawu leads Colgate in scoring this season with 12.1 points per game and is closing in on 1,000 points in his career. Gyawu currently has 876 points, 124 away from becoming the 28th player in school history to join the 1,000-point club.

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 159.

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.