BU to Visit Colgate Wednesday Night

Wednesday, February 15

Hamilton, NY

7 PM

Boston University

Colgate

Photo by: Rich Gagnon

February 14, 2017 | Men's Basketball

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Men's Basketball (15-11, 10-4 PL) at Colgate (9-18, 7-7 PL)
Date & Time	Wednesday, Feb. 15 \| 7:00 p.m.
Venue	Cotterell Court \| Hamilton, N.Y.
Live Stats	GoColgateRaiders.com
Listen	Terrier Sports Radio Network
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Game Notes	BU
Twitter	@BUGameDay \| @BostonUMBB

BOSTON – Riding a three-game win streak, the Boston University men's basketball team will visit Colgate in a key Patriot League matchup on Wednesday night with tip-off slated for 7 p.m.

The Terriers are currently tied-for-second with Navy in the PL standings at 10-4 with four games remaining and are two games behind leader Bucknell (12-2) with Lehigh in fourth at 8-6. The Raiders are one of three teams at 7-7 alongside Loyola Maryland and Holy Cross.

TERRIER TIDBITS

During their win streak, BU claimed home wins over Lafayette (58-58) and Loyola Maryland (78-63) with a road win at American (67-64) ... The Terriers are shooting 48.7 percent from the field and 40.6 percent in 3-point territory, while the opponents averaged 41.2 FG% and 34.5 3FG%, respectively.
Reigning PL Player of the Week and senior Justin Alston (11.9 ppg, 5.9 rpg) is averaging a 15.7 ppg with 5.0 rpg during the streak, while senior Eric Fanning (15.1 ppg, 6.2 rpg) is at 13.0 ppg and 6.3 rpg , respectively ... Freshman Tyler Scanlon (7.8 ppg) and junior Eric Johnson (4.0 ppg) have stepped up combining for an average of 19 points with the help of a combined 14 3-pointers.
With their home win over Loyola, the Terriers clinched their eighth 10+ conference-win season in the last nine years ... In the previous win over American, they extended their streak of finishing .500 or better in conference play to 17 seasons, the t-11th longest streak in the country.
BU is 4-8 on the road with a 4-2 conference mark with road wins at American, Lehigh, Lafayette and Navy ... The two losses came against Loyola Maryland and Bucknell.
The Terriers have earned sweeps this season over Lafayette and American and are 1-0 so far when trying to avoid suffering their own sweep ... Bucknell is the only other team besides Colgate with the opportunity to sweep BU.
In conference play, the Terriers rank second in steals at 9.1 spg while Colgate is ninth at 5.2 spg ... Sophomore Kyle Foreman is averaging a league-high 2.4 spg in PL action with junior Cedric Hankerson sixth at 1.9 spg ... Scanlon is tied-for-15th at 1.4 spg after tallying a season-high five steals against the Greyhounds on Saturday.

SCOUTING COLGATE

The Raiders are 4-6 at home compared to 5-10 on the road ... They own home conference wins against Navy (55-52), Army West Point (70-58) and Loyola Maryland (52-49) with losses to American (67-64 OT), Holy Cross (67-61), Bucknell (83-69) and Lehigh (76-52).
Colgate is is coming off Monday night's 75-58 loss at Bucknell that snapped a two-game win streak ... PL teams are currently 0-8 in midweek games following an appearance on a CBS Sports Network Monday night broadcast with the Terriers having lost twice to Colgate (Jan. 18) and to Navy (Feb. 2).
Reigning PL Rookie of the Week and 6-foot-8 forward Will Rayman is averaging a team-high 14.8 ppg while fellow 6-foot-8 forward Malcolm Regisford (8.1 ppg) is averaging a team-high 7.3 rpg.
Colgate is averaging 66.7 ppg while shooting 43.5 percent from the field and is holding opponents to 70.8 ppg and 44.9 FG%.
The Raiders are currently tied with BU in made 3-pointers at 230 but required one extra game to hit the mark.

SERIES HISTORY

The Terriers lead the all-time series, 25-19, 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 in 2015 despite the Terriers owning double-digit leads in the first half of each contest ... They then split in 2016 with both home teams winning.
In the last meeting back on Jan. 18 at Case Gym, the Terriers jumped out to a 15-2 over the first 10 minutes, but the Raiders responded with a 16-2 run over a five-minute stretch and went into the locker room ahead, 26-22 ... BU cut a 10-point deficit (49-39) to one at 3:05 (56-55) and later two at 1:25 (60-58) but eventually fell, 67-58.
Playing their second game in three days, the Terriers shot 35.1 percent, their second-worst performance of the season, as leading scorer Fanning tallied 21 points (w/ 12 rebounds) despite going 5-of-18 from the field ... Alston went 8-of-9 en route to 18 points ... The Raiders' Rayman and Sean O'Brien combined for 41 points, as Colgate shot 40.0 percent for the game.
In the last meeting at Colgate, the Raiders trailed, 44-38, with 17:19 left, before converting on back-to-back 3-point plays to go on a 24-6 run over the following six minutes ... They shot 58.3 percent from the field and hit 14-of-25 (.560) from behind the arc against a BU squad playing its second game in three days.