BU Faces Quick Turnaround at Colgate Wednesday Night
January 19, 2016 | Men's Basketball
| Men's Basketball (10-9, 3-3 PL) at Colgate (8-9, 4-2 PL) | |
| Date | Wednesday, Jan. 20 | 7:30 p.m. |
| Venue | Cotterell Court | Hamilton, N.Y. |
| Tickets | Individual |
| Live Stats | GoColgateRaiders.com |
| Listen | Terrier Sports Radio Network |
| Video | Patriot League Network (Campus Insiders call) |
| Game Notes | BU |
| @BUGameDay | @BostonUMBB | |
BOSTON - Coming off a thrilling come-from-behind overtime victory over Loyola Maryland, the Boston University men's basketball team will have a quick turnaround with a visit to Colgate on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
The Terriers (10-9, 3-3 PL) rallied from a 14-point second-half deficit to post an 87-84 win over the Greyhounds on Monday night, as junior Eric Fanning tallied a career-high 37 points to help BU extend its win streak to a season-high three games.
Currently in sole possession of third place in the conference standings, Colgate (8-9, 4-2 PL) will be seeking its first three-game win streak following double-digit victories over Army West Point (80-66) and Bucknell (84-73).
TERRIER TIDBITS
• BU is 5-6 on the road this season after going 5-10 last year ... The Terriers snapped a three-game road losing streak last Wednesday with a 61-50 victory at American.
• The Terriers rank third in scoring in the PL at 72.5 ppg after posting a season-high 87 points against the Greyhounds by shooting 52.8 percent from the field ... The strong offensive performance helped BU snap a 24-game losing streak in contests where opponents reached the 45-percent shooting threshold.
• BU is now 1-1 in overtime games this year with both contests happening at home ... Coincidentally, both decisions were 87-84.
• Junior Eric Fanning leads the Terriers in scoring at 14.9 ppg after being the top BU scorer in the last four games and sits in fourth in PL-only scoring at 17.0 ppg ... His 37 points against Loyola were the most by a Terrier since John Holland ('11) tallied 43 points in 2010 ... They were also one shy of the most scored in Case Gym by a Terrier with Holland remaining the record holder at 38 points (set in 2008).
• Senior John Papale is the only Terrier to have started all 19 games and is averaging 12.2 ppg ... This season, he became just the 10th in program history to reach 1,000 points and 200 assists ... A total of 34 men have hit the 1,000-point milestone at BU.
• Senior Nathan Dieudonne (9.7 ppg, 6.6 rpg) needs 34 points (766) and six rebounds (594) to become the 17th Terrier to reach 800 points and 600 rebounds at BU ... He posted his second double-double of the season against Lafayette with 11 points and 11 rebounds.
• Sophomore Cheddi Mosely is second on the team in scoring at 12.7 ppg ... He missed three straight games before scoring 15 points against Loyola, highlighted by two 3-pointers in the final three minutes of regulation ... Classmate Nick Havener is second in rebounding at 6.58 rpg.
• Freshman Kyle Foreman dished out a season-high eight assists against Loyola and is averaging 9.8 apg.
SCOUTING COLGATE
• The Raiders are 4-2 at home with wins over New Hampshire (75-59), Lafayette (77-70) and Army (80-66) ... Both losses came in overtime with a 101-98 2OT loss to Cornell and 71-68 OT defeat to Navy.
• Colgate is 6-3 in last nine games after starting 2-6 ... 6-foot-0 senior guard Austin Tillotson is the reigning PL Player of the Week after averaging 17.0 ppg and 5.5 apg in two wins ... He leads the Raiders in scoring at 13.6 ppg.
• The Raiders average 8.6 made 3-pointers per game and shoot 34.7 percent ... They have seven men who have hit at least 10 treys, while BU only has four.
• Colgate is shooting 43.0 percent while holding opponents to 43.8 percent ... 6-foot-7 forward Jordan Swopshire is the other Raider in double-figure scoring at 10.1 ppg.
• 6-foot-8 forward Malcolm Regisford leads Colgate in rebounding at 5.8 rpg while averaging 4.9 rpg.
SERIES HISTORY
• The Terriers lead the all-time series, 24-17, as the teams were previously members of the America East from 1979-1989.
• They met for the first time in 2014 since Colgate left to join the PL with BU claiming a sweep en route to the Patriot League regular season title ... Colgate snapped a 20-game losing streak in the series with a sweep of its own last year despite the Terriers owning double-digit leads in the first half of each contest.
• In the last matchup at Colgate, BU led, 20-8, with 9:32 remaining but only held a slight 29-26 advantage at halftime ... The Terriers later owned a 45-42 lead with 7:30 left, but Colgate used three 3-pointers during a 12-0 run over the following five minutes to pull away for the 62-53 win ... BU's top two scorers Cedric Hankerson and Papale were held to a combined three points on 1-of-13 shooting.
• In the rematch at home, BU led, 29-16, with 4:14 remaining in the first half but only entered the locker room ahead, 33-30 ... Papale gave BU its final lead (65-64) at 2:07, but Colgate scored 12 of the game's final 16 points ... BU was down three with 25 seconds left but was unable to find the equalizer in the loss.
UP NEXT
• BU will return home and next host defending Patriot League regular season champion Bucknell on Saturday (Jan. 23) at 1 p.m.
• The Bison swept the Terriers last season after the squads split in 2013-14 ... Papale netted a career-high 22 points last year at home against Bucknell.
