2020-21 BISON BASKETBALL GAME NOTES | #Raybucknell
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BUCKNELL 2020-21 BISON BASKETBALL GAME NOTES | #rayBucknell #TheBisonWay GAME 11: #6 BUCKNELL AT #2 COLGATE • PATRIOT LEAGUE TOURNAMENT SEMIFINALS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10 | HAMILTON, N.Y. | COTTERELL COURT GAME INFORMATION SERIES INFORMATION GAME CAPSULE BUCKNELL BISON COLGATE RAIDERS Series .......................... Bucknell leads, 69-47 Tip ..................................................7:30 p.m. Record .............................................. 5-6 Record ............................................ 12-1 First Game .................... 1/8/1920 (C, 56-38) TV ................................. CBS Sports Network Patriot League Central ......................4-2 Patriot League North ......................11-1 Last Bucknell Win ........... 2/26/2020 (71-70) Play-by-Play.........................Jason Horowitz KenPom/NET Rankings .............264/216 KenPom/NET Rankings ...................87/8 Last Colgate Win ............. 1/20/2020 (80-65) Color .......................... Julianne Viani-Braen 2019-20 .........................14-20 (8-10 PL) 2019-20 ...........................25-9 (14-4 PL) Current Streak ..............................Bucknell 1 Radio ...............Eagle 107 (WEGH 107.3 FM) Head Coach ......................Nathan Davis Head Coach ........................ Matt Langel Internet Audio ................BucknellBison.com At Bucknell ...................... 108-71 (6th) At Colgate ................... 151-152 (10th) Postseason Meetings Play-by-Play ........................Doug Birdsong Overall......................... 249-110 (12th) Overall......................... 151-152 (10th) 3/6/93 B, 75-73 PL Semis at Bucknell 3/3/96 C, 67-61 PL Semis at Holy Cross Live Stats...................GoColgateRaiders.com Location .......................... Lewisburg, Pa. Location .......................... Hamilton, N.Y. 3/2/97 B, 71-58 PL Semis at Lehigh Enrollment .................................... 3,600 Enrollment .................................... 2,922 3/3/01 B, 75-68 PL Qtrs at Navy Colors .............................Orange & Blue Colors ......................... Maroon & White 3/9/08 C, 54-40 PL Semis at Colgate President ............... Dr. John C. Bravman President ........................Brian W. Casey 3/7/18 B, 83-54 PL Final at Bucknell AD ..................................Jermaine Truax AD .......................................Nicki Moore 3/13/19 C, 94-80 PL Final at Colgate Web Site ..................BucknellBison.com Website .............GoColgateRaiders.com SCHEDULE/RESULTS BUCKNELL PROBABLE STARTERS XANDER RICE NOTES: Has taken over as starting point guard in 2020-21 ... played J2 at Navy (ESPN+) 78-69 L 21 6-3 • 184 • So. • W. Long Branch, N.J. in every game as the backup at the point as a rookie, averaging 12.8 J3 NAVY (CBS SN) 63-60 L mpg ... career-high 13 pts. in opener at Navy, then passed that mark PTS REB AST MIN G J9 LAFAYETTE* (ESPN+) 83-60 L with 23 at Lafayette ... team-high 38 asst., only 16 TOs ... 19 pts. at 11.3 2.4 3.5 28.7 Lafayette last time out ... 52.6 FG% leads all PL guards. J10 at Lafayette* (ESPN+) 87-76 L J16 LEHIGH* (WQMY-TV/ESPN+) 75-70 W ANDREW FUNK NOTES: PL All-Academic selection for 2nd straight year ... 14th in PL 10 6-5 • 188 • Jr. • Warrington, Pa. in scoring and 5th in min. played ... team-high 18 pts., 8 reb. in home J17 at Lehigh* (ESPN+) 77-61 W win over Lehigh ... 17 pts. vs. Lehigh on 1/31 ... 7+ pts. in every game J23 at Colgate (ESPN+) ppd. PTS REB AST MIN G this season and double figures in 9 of 11 ... hit 51 3FGs last season ... J24 at Colgate (ESPN+) ppd. 12.9 4.5 1.5 33.9 all 14 pts. at Lafayette on Sat. came in 2nd half. J30 at Lehigh* (ESPN+) 84-70 W NOTES: Junior wing joined starting unit this season ... 1 career start J31 LEHIGH* (WQMY-TV/ESPN+) 92-68 W WALTER ELLIS 2 6-5 • 190 • Jr. • Granger, Ind. (2020 at American) entering the year ... career-high 16 pts. at Lehigh F6 at Loyola (ESPN+) ppd. on 1/30, then 12 a day later ... broke out of 3-21 3FG slump, hitting F8 LOYOLA (CBS SN) ppd. PTS REB AST MIN G 8-12 that weekend ... 12-22 3FG in last 5G ... scored in double figures 8.9 3.7 1.3 27.4 in each of last 5G (13.2 ppg) ... 61.1 FG% in that span. F13 AMERICAN (ESPN+) ppd. F14 at American (CBS SN) ppd. JOHN MEEKS NOTES: Third Team All-Patriot League selection in each of last 2 F20 at Lafayette* (ESPN+) ppd. 12 6-6 • 224 • Sr. • Burlington, N.C. years ... made season debut vs. Lehigh on 1/16 after missing the first F21 LAFAYETTE* (WQMY-TV/ESPN+) ppd. 4G due to injury ... also missed 2 AU games (COVID protocol) ... has PTS REB AST MIN F topped 30-pt. mark in 3 of last 4 games ... 31 pts., 11 reb. vs. Lehigh F27 AMERICAN (ESPN+) 78-71 L 25.8 7.2 2.2 30.6 on 1/17 and at Lafayette on Sat. ... career-high 32 pts. vs. Lehigh 1/31. F28 at American (ESPN+) 81-68 L M6 at Lafayette (PL Quarters)^ (ESPN+) 92-84 W PAUL NEWMAN NOTES: Started 20G at center last season ... was a projected starter M10 at Colgate (PL Semis)^ (CBS SN) 7:30 p.m. 0 6-9 • 225 • Sr. • Philadelphia, Pa. this year but came off the bench in the 2 Navy games while recovering from a preseason injury ... hit go-ahead 3-pt. play with 0:11 left vs. M14 PL Championship Game^ (CBS SN) 12 p.m. PTS REB BLK MIN C Navy at home, but the Mids answered to win it ... 11 pts. twice this * Patriot League Central Division game 5.1 4.8 0.8 17.5 season ... shooting 62.5% FG on season. ^ PL Tournament games at home of higher seed BUCKNELL RESERVES BUCKNELL ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS No. Name Cl. Pos. Ht. Wt. PPG RPG Notable 3 Malachi Rhodes So. F 6-8 246 1.5 1.7 5 reb. vs. Lafayette Director of Athletic Comm.: Jon Terry 4 Deuce Turner Fr. G 6-2 181 9.1 2.3 Season-high 21 pts. vs. AU on 2/27 Office: (570) 577-3121 5 Jordan Sechan Sr. G 6-1 179 0.0 0.0 First career start on Senior Day vs. AU Cell: (570) 850-9603 11 Josh Adoh Fr. G 6-3 219 2.5 3.5 Season debut vs. AU E-Mail: [email protected] 20 Miles Latimer Jr. G 6-4 224 6.0 2.3 Stony Brook transfer plays 22.7 mpg BucknellBison.com Web Site: 23 Andre Screen Fr. C 7-0 231 7.8 6.7 9 pts., 6 reb. at Lafayette on Sat. @Bucknell_Bison, @Bucknell_MBB Twitter: 25 Alek Delev Fr. G 6-0 140 0.0 0.0 Walk-on point guard from Bulgaria Instagram: @BucknellBison, @Bucknell_MBB 32 Jake van der Heijden So. F 6-9 225 3.4 1.2 Started 1st 4G in place of Meeks Facebook: Bucknell Athletics 40 Alex Timmerman So. C 6-9 267 1.3 1.3 Big soph can play 4 and 5 spots Associate SID: Jen Dobias Assistant SIDs: Ben Blumenthal, Cole Cloonan Bucknell Men’s Basketball Game Notes — 2 HEAD COACH NATHAN DAVIS BISON NOTES & NOTABLES Nathan Davis returned to Bucknell in April 2015 to become the 21st head WITH A WIN OVER COLGATE, BUCKNELL WOULD ... coach of the Bison men’s basketball u... advance to the PenFed Credit Union Patriot League Tournament championship game and play the Army-Loyola program. The Bison captured Patriot winner on Sunday. If Bucknell were to face Loyola, it would be played in Sojka Pavilion, while a Bucknell-Army League regular-season titles in each of his first four seasons as head final would be played at West Point. coach, and in 2017 and 2018 they u... reach the Patriot League championship game for the 14th time, extending the league record. captured PL Tournament crowns and u... snap a three-game losing streak at Cotterell Court. NCAA bids. u... improve to 70-47 all-time against the Raiders and 5-3 against them in the postseason. Davis was a familiar face to Buck- u nell fans when he returned to Lewis- ... improve to 4-3 on the road this season. burg, as he spent five years (2003-08) as the top assistant coach u... give head coach Nathan Davis his 109th victory as Bucknell’s head coach and bring him within one of Malcolm under Pat Flannery and was on the bench for the team’s historic Musser for fourth on the program’s all-time wins list. NCAA victories in 2005 and 2006. In his very first season as head coach in 2015-16, he guided the team to a 14-4 Patriot League record (17-14 overall). The Bison HEADLINES had to win their final four games of the regular season to hold uBucknell is back in the Patriot League Tournament semifinals for the 24th time in the 31-year history of the off Lehigh by one game for the regular-season title. Patriot League after defeating third-seeded Lafayette on the road on Saturday 92-84. Davis was named Patriot League Coach of the Year and was u picked as a finalist for the Joe B. Hall Award, presented to the It’s been a season of starts and stops for the Bison, who endured a four-week pause in the month of Febru- nation’s top first-year coach. His 17 wins were the most ever for ary. But for the first time in quite awhile, the team had a full week of practice and a full complement of players a Bucknell coach in his initial season, and he led the team to its available for the quarterfinal round against Lafayette. third National Invitation Tournament (NIT) appearance. uThat includes senior forward John Meeks, who was sensational once again on Saturday. Meeks recorded 31 In year two, Davis repeated as PL Coach of the Year after lead- ing the Bison to yet another regular-season title.