Box Score

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Behind a crowd of 25,519 fans at the Carrier Dome on Saturday afternoon, the Colgate men's basketball and No. 9 ranked Syracuse faced off for their 166th all-time meeting.

Colgate (0-2) took the lead in the opening five minutes and controlled much of the ball for the next 10 but it was the Orange who went into halftime up 36-26. Colgate traded baskets with Syracuse but its nationally ranked opponent held onto its lead to ultimately secure a 69-50 victory.

Ethan Jacobs led the Raiders with 13 points and five boards to notch himself a career-high scoring night. Murphy Burnatowski was next for Colgate with seven points and four rebounds while Austin Tillotson added nine points and a game-high four assists.

Syracuse (3-0) saw C.J. Fair grab 20 points to lead all scorers. Three other Orange players had double digits in Tyler Ennis, Trevor Cooney, and Michael Gbinije. Ennis was 4-of-6 from behind the arc while Gbinije and Cooney both grabbed five of their points from the charity stripe.

The game opened up with Fair scoring five straight points. But the Raiders quickly answered with five of their own following a trey from Pat Moore and a jumper by Jacobs.

The redshirt junior added two good free throws to give the Raiders the slight edge, at 7-5. Colgate pushed its lead to as much as five following a three-pointer from Moore but two baskets from the Orange cut the Raider advantage down to one, at 12-11.

Syracuse came fighting back to knot the score at 15-all but a three-pointer from Damon Sherman-Newsome extended the Raider lead back up to three.

The Orange pulled ahead thanks to a 13-0 run in a two-minute span to create a 12-point deficit between the teams.

Five straight points from Burnatowski, however, cut the Syracuse advantage down to seven with less than five minutes to play in the half.

Back-to-back treys from Ennis gave the Orange back a 13-point difference but a shot from long range from Jacobs at the buzzer cut the lead down to 10, at 36-26 and that's how the teams headed into the locker room.

The second half started out just like the first with Fair scoring the opening two baskets to extend Syracuse's lead to 40-26.

A made trey from Jacobs pulled the Raiders to within 11 but the Orange quickly answered with a three of their own to extend the advantage back to 43-29.
Colgate would not let up, however, as the Raiders cut the lead back down to 11 thanks to a three-pointer from Tillotson with 12 minutes remaining.

Unfortunately the Orange would finish the game on a 18-10 run to secure the victory.

Both teams shots 36% from the floor throughout the course of the game. Colgate outrebounded Syracuse on the defensive end 27-26 but a 26-7 advantage on the offensive boards gave the Orange 19 second chance opportunities, compared to the Raiders 11.

Colgate is next on Cotterell Court for its home opener against Ivy League rival Cornell in a Wednesday night matchup at 7 p.m.

NOTES: First time since the 2005-06 season the Raiders held the Orange to under 70 points … The 19-point margin was also the closest score between these two squads since the 2004-05 season when the game ended in a 55-68 Syracuse win … Jacobs notched a career-high 13 points in his season game in a Colgate uniform …