Colgate Colg 6-5,0-0 Patriot

Binghamton Bingha 3-6,0-0 America East

Colgate Colg

6-5,0-0 Patriot

Final

Dec. 07, 2022

Binghamton Bingha

3-6,0-0 America East

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	F
Colgate Colg	48	33	81
Binghamton Bingha	26	36	62

Summary
Box Score

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | 12/7/2022 11:07:00 PM | Jordan Doroshenko

Hot Shooting Boosts Raiders Past Bearcats

Season-high 48 points in first half lead Raiders Past Binghamton, 81-62

VESTAL, N.Y. – Colgate shot 67 percent from the field in the first half and carried the hot shooting to an 81-62 wire-to-wire victory over Binghamton Wednesday night inside the Events Center.

Tucker Richardson scored a game-high 22 points on 9-of-12 shooting from the field and 4-of-5 from behind the arc. He added four steals, three rebounds, and three assists with no turnovers. Keegan Records (16) and Braeden Smith (12) also reached double-figure scoring as Colgate led from the start to finish. The Raiders finished with a 54.5 shooting percentage from the field, their third-best mark of the season, and 47.6 percent from the perimeter.

Colgate started the game with a 10-0 run. Records scored the first four points and then Richardson blitzed the Bearcats with 13 consecutive points. He swished three triples, banked in a layup, and sank two free throws to stretch Colgate's early lead to 17-5 six minutes into the contest.

Binghamton went scoreless for nearly three minutes while Colgate's defense stood tall. Smith and Ryan Moffatt each added 3-pointers before a traditional three-point play from Records put the Raiders in front 28-13 midway through the opening stanza.

Smith made another three from the top of the key to extend the Raiders' lead to 36-16. The Bearcats used a 7-2 spurt to close within 41-25 but Oliver Lynch-Daniels swished Colgate's eighth 3-pointer of the stanza to end the drought.

The Raiders shot 62 percent from the field and 67 percent from behind the arc to build a 48-26 lead at the intermission. Their 48 points were the most in the first half of a game this season.

Binghamton was 0-for-5 from the perimeter in the first half but knocked down two of their first four in the second half. John McGriff's three in transition sparked a 9-4 surge for the Bearcats, who cut it to 56-42 eight minutes into the second term.

Woodward, who made a career-high seven free throws, connected on some big shots inside down the stretch. The Bearcats trimmed the margin to 15 (66-51) but were never closer than that.

Strong minutes from Sam Thomson, Brady Cummins, and Nicolas Louis-Jacques late in the game kept the lead in double-digits and helped the Raiders coast to the finish line, 81-62.

FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Matt Langel

"We've been working extremely hard during a challenging time of year. Our guys are studying and going up against exams to finish the semester. We've had some hard practices over the past few days and we played with that type of determination right from the start tonight. We were working on the glass to get the ball inside and score.

"It's hard to play a game with the type of lead that we had for most of the night. The opposition has nothing to lose. They made some great one-on-one plays, but for the most part, we stayed composed and did a nice job to get a win on the road. This was an important one for us."

UP NEXT
Colgate (6-5) hosts Vermont, a 13-seed in last year's NCAA tournament, on Saturday at noon for the first game of a basketball doubleheader at Cotterell Court.

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