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HAMILTON – Senior Ethan Jacobs tallied 20 points and nine rebounds for a season-best here Wednesday night on Cotterell Court.
 
The Raiders unfortunately fell in the game 71-70 to the visiting Sacred Heart Pioneers.
 
Jacobs went 6-for-13 from the floor and 8-of-11 from the charity stripe for his impressive shooting night. Austin Tillotson added 15 points to close out the Raiders in double-figures.
 
Colgate and Sacred Heart battled and saw 18 lead changes to go along with 12 tie scores throughout the 40 minutes of play.
 
The Raiders would have taken a four-point edge into halftime but a jumper from Cane Broome with seven seconds left made it a one-possession game at the break.
 
Both teams took their turns holding the lead in the second half but 6-0 run from the Raiders with 10 minutes remaining in the game gave them their largest advantage of the night at 62-56.
 
Colgate remained ahead by five with three minutes left but a 10-4 run to close out the game ultimately secured the come-from-behind victory for the Pioneers. Two of those 10 points came in the final five seconds after Allen converted on an inbounds play.
 
The Raiders' next outing is at No. 14 Ohio State for the final game of the Buckeye Classic on Saturday. That game is scheduled for a 4:30 p.m. tip. 
 
Bottom Line
• Sacred Heart 71, Colgate 70
 
Won-Lost Records
• Sacred Heart pulls to .500 overall on the season at 3-3
• Colgate slants to 1-6
• All of Colgate's losses this season have been by seven or fewer points.
 
Facts & Figures
• Jacobs led the Raiders with a season-high 20 points after going 6-of-13 from the floor and 8-of-11 from the free throw line.
• The Tipton, Indiana, native added a season-best nine boards and was two points shy of matching his career-high in scoring.
• Tillotson tallied 15 points from 3-of-10 overall shooting, 2-of-5 from long and 7-of-9 from the charity stripe. The junior also posted two assists on the night.
• Leading Colgate on the boards was Luke Roh with a season-best 11 rebounds. Six of those 11 came on the offensive glass.  
• Sherman-Newsome was on track to continue his double-figure scoring streak until he got injured midway through the first half.
• His double-digit scoring run ends at nine-straight games, dating back to March 1 of last season. He had also reached that feat in all of Colgate's games so far this season prior to Wednesday's contest. 
• The Pioneers shot 47.5 percent overall from the floor, including going 14-of-29 in the second half alone. SHU added 4-of-13 makes from long with all four buckets coming in the opening period.
• On the other hand Colgate shot 41.2 percent from the floor and 28.6 percent from downtown.
• The Raiders posted a season-high 24 makes from the charity stripe going 24-of-32 from the line. The Pioneers went 11-for-21.
• Colgate won the rebounding battle by a wide margin at 46-28. The Raiders 46 boards was a season-best, beating the previous mark by 10.
• The Raiders also notched 18 offensive boards, which was a high for the season. From those 18 offensive rebounds, Colgate converted 17 points.
• Both teams notched 34 points from inside the paint but a season-high 19 turnovers for the Raiders gave the Pioneers 21 points off of Colgate mishaps.
• Colgate held the edge for 19 minutes and 29 seconds, while the Pioneers were ahead for 14:39. The game remained tied for 5:51.
• SHU was led by Broome, who recorded a season-best 21 points in the game after going 9-for-13 from the floor. Jordan Allen chipped in 14 points, while two other Pioneer players added nine each.
 
The Difference
• Colgate held a five-point edge with three minutes to play after Roh finished off a layup.
• Unfortunately a 10-4 run for SHU over the remaining minutes handed Colgate a heartbreaking one-point loss.
 
Notes
• Of Colgate's six losses this season, all have been by seven or fewer points. Wednesday's loss marked Colgate's slimmest margin of defeat.
• Colgate outrebounded its opponent for the third time this season.
• The Raiders recorded a season-best in overall rebounds and offensive boards, while making 24-of-32 shots from the free throw line.
• Colgate allowed a season-high 11 steals and 19 turnovers in the game.
• Tillotson has now registered double-digits in all of the Raiders contests so far this year, while also recording his 28th career double-figure scoring games.
• Rookie Jordan Robertson saw 16 minutes in the game, which gave him a career-high. He also knocked down his first collegiate basket with a trey to open up the scoring for Colgate in the second half.   

Straight From The Source
• Colgate head coach Matt Langel: (on a frustrating 71-70 loss to Sacred Heart) "I take all of the blame. I didn't prepare our team well enough, coming off a completely different style of play at Arizona State, for the type of game we needed to be playing. We just didn't do a good job in any aspect of the game."
 
"We played poor defense, we didn't run good offense, we played way too much one-on-one basketball and it was just very uncharacteristic of the team that we are trying to be. And that responsibility lies on the head coach. We didn't execute late in the game, we didn't shoot well enough from the foul line and then we let them get some easy shots. It was a very disappointing game for us."
 
Up Next
• Colgate now heads to No. 14-ranked Ohio State for its final game of the Buckeye Classic. That game is slated for Saturday at 4:30 p.m.
• The Buckeyes are coming off a 64-55 loss to No. 5 Louisville on Tuesday.
• These two teams have faced each other twice prior to Saturday's contest with the all-time series tied at 1-1.
• Colgate won the program's first meeting in 1907-08 at 35-20 before the Buckeyes took the teams' last outing during the 1980-81 season at 77-58.
 
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