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HAMILTON – The league title and an NCAA Tournament berth are on the line Wednesday night when the second-seeded Colgate men's basketball team travels to top-seeded Bucknell for the Patriot League Championship game. Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m. from Lewisburg, Pa., and the game will air nation-wide on CBS Sports Network.
 
A limited supply of tickets is available, and they will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets are $25 each, and can be purchased by calling the Colgate Ticket office at 315-228-4062 or stopping by the Reid Athletic Center Ticket Office. Bucknell's allotment of general-public tickets is sold out.
 
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: CBS Sports Network (Channel finder can be found by clicking HERE)
 
Online Video: A live stream of CBS Sports Network is available through CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports App by authenticating with providers including: Buckeye, Cox, Cablevision, DirecTV, DISH, Frontier, Mediacom, Optimum, Suddenlink, Verizon and WOW. CBSSN is also widely available on OTT services including YouTube TV, fuboTV, PlayStation Vue, DirecTV and Hulu.
 
Home Radio: 93.9 WKXZ with Eric Malanoski (Online stream can be found HERE)
 
National Radio: Westwood One national radio broadcast

• Aired on regular radio stations across the country (List of stations can be found HERE)
• Streamed free online HERE
• On Sirius/XM satellite radio as follows: Sirius 81/XM 81

 
Live Stats: Live stats can be found HERE.
 
HISTORIC SEASON
The Raiders have already accomplished several key feats this season:

• Program-record 19 wins
• 13 home wins ties program record and marks the most in 91 years (1926-27)
• First Patriot League Championship game appearance since 2008
• 17 regular-season wins and 12 Patriot League wins both tie program records
• Current five-game win streak is the team's longest in 10 years. The 2007-08 team went on a six-game run from Feb. 20-March 9, 2008.

 
HOW THEY GOT HERE
The Raiders are making their first Patriot League Championship game appearance since 2008 thanks to Patriot League Tournament wins over Lafayette and Holy Cross. Colgate set a program record with its 19th win of the season by earning a 62-55 victory over Holy Cross in the Patriot League Semifinals Sunday. Colgate broke a 48-48 tie with a 14-7 game-closing run to defeat the Crusaders. Sophomore Will Rayman turned out a monster performance with 22 points, seven rebounds, three blocks and three steals to lead the way against Holy Cross. The Raiders used a dominant team effort to take down seventh-seeded Lafayette 76-54 on March 1 in the Patriot League Quarterfinals. Senior Sean O'Brien led the Raiders with a game-high 18 points. Colgate secured the No. 2 seed in the Patriot League Tournament thanks to a 12-6 league record. The second-place result is Colgate's best since the 2014-15 squad also finished second, and tied for the highest finish since the 1995-96 team won the regular-season title. The Raiders tied all-time program records with 17 regular-season (17-12) wins and 12 Patriot League (12-6) victories, and Colgate has clinched its first overall winning season in 10 years. Colgate's 19 wins this season bests the previous school record of 18 set by the 2007-08 and 1992-93 teams.
 
PLAYOFF PUSH
Colgate is on the hunt for its third Patriot League Championship and first since 1996. Colgate is 2-3 all-time when playing Bucknell in the Patriot League Tournament, and 0-1 when playing the Bison in Lewisburg, Pa. This will be the first time that the Bison and Raiders have met in the final, and the first time they have met in any postseason round since 2008 when Colgate won in the semifinals in Hamilton, N.Y.
 
AGAINST THE BISON
Bucknell came out on the winning end of both regular-season meetings between the Bison and the Raiders this season. The teams most recently met on Feb. 12 in Lewisburg, Pa. Bucknell's Kimbal Mackenzie hit a buzzer-beating three-pointer to cement a 14-3 game-closing run and hand the Raiders a 65-64 defeat. Colgate held a 10-point lead with under a minute remaining, but the Bison rallied all the way back to complete the season sweep. The Bison used a strong second half to take the season's first meeting 63-51 in Hamilton, N.Y. on Jan. 15.  Colgate held a two-point lead at the half, but finished the game with a season-low 27.1 field goal percentage as the poor shooting night doomed the Raiders. Senior Sean O'Brien led Colgate against the Bison this season with 10.5 points and 5.0 rebounds per game in the two games combined. Sophomore Will Rayman chipped in 9.0 points and 8.0 boards per game.