2020-21 Patriot League Men's Basketball CONFERENCE BASKETBALL STATISTICS Through Games of Mar 14, 2021 (All Games)
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2020-21 PATRIOT LEAGUE MEN’S BASKETBALL CONTACT: RYAN SAKAMOTO - ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER FOR COMMUNICATIONS TM PHONE: (610) 289-1963 - E-MAIL: [email protected] Release 3.17.21 www.patriotleague.org witter.com/PatriotLeague acebook.com/patriotleague TM MEN’S BASKETBALL STANDINGS (AS OF 3.17.21) DIVISION Patriot League Overall NORTH W-L PCT. W-L PCT. W-L PCT. H A N STREAK Colgate 11-1 .917 11-1 .917 14-1 .933 8-1 6-0 0-0 W13 ARmy West Point 6-6 .500 7-7 .500 12-9 .571 5-5 5-3 2-1 L1 Holy Cross 4-8 .333 5-11 .313 5-11 .313 1-8 4-3 0-0 W2 BOSTON University 3-9 .250 6-10 .375 7-11 .389 2-6 5-5 0-0 L1 CENTRAL W-L PCT. W-L PCT. W-L PCT. H A N STREAK Lafayette 5-1 .883 9-5 .643 9-6 .600 6-2 3-3 0-0 L1 Bucknell 4-2 .667 4-6 .400 5-7 .417 2-3 3-4 0-0 L1 LehiGH 1-7 .125 4-10 .286 4-11 .267 1-5 3-6 0-0 L3 Upcoming Schedule (all times EST) Friday, March 15 - NCAA First Round #14 Colgate vs. #3 Arkansas (TruTV) 12:45 p.m. SOUTH W-L PCT. W-L PCT. W-L PCT. H A N STREAK Navy 7-0 1.000 12-1 .923 15-3 .833 8-2 6-1 1-0 L1 Monday, March 22 - CBI Quarterfinals American 2-5 .285 4-5 .444 4-6 .400 2-2 2-4 0-0 L1 Bellarmine at Army ..................... 8:30 p.m. Loyola Maryland 1-5 .167 4-10 .286 6-11 .353 3-4 3-7 0-0 L1 Patriot League Championship Results Patriot League Men’s Basketball Twitter Notebook - @Patriot_GameDay - #PatriotMBB Sunday, March 14 - Championship Game •.@ColgateMBB is the 3rd #PatriotMBB team to meet @RazorbackMBB in @marchmadness 1st. Rd. @Bucknell_MBB defeated Arkan- At No. 2 Colgate 85, No. 9 Loyola 72 sas, 59-55, in 2006. @HCrossMBB feel to Arkansas in 1993. •.@ColgateMBB defeated @LoyolaMBB to capture the #PatriotMBB Championship for the 2nd time in 3 seasons. Wednesday, March 10 - Semifinals •Raiders’ Sr. G Jordan Burns is the 4th player in League history to earn Championship MVP honors twice, joining @Bucknell_MBB’s No. 9 Loyola 67, at No. 4 Army 63 Charles Lee and Mike Muscala along with @AU_MBasketball’s Garrison Carr. At No. 2 Colgate 105, No. 6 Bucknell 75 •No. 2 @ColgateMBB broke a #PatriotMBB Championship scoring record with 105 points vs. No. 6 @Bucknell_MBB in the semifinals to become the first League team to reach the #PatriotMBB Championship Games in four-consecutive seasons Saturday, March 6 - Quarterfinals •#PatriotMBB 2021 Major Awards: POY - @ColgateMBB Jordan Burns; DPOY @ArmyWP_MBB Josh Caldwell; ROY @AU_MBasketball No. 9 Loyola 76, at No. 1 Navy 68 Johnny O’Neil; COY - @NavyAthletics Ed DeChellis •.@LafayetteMBB’s Justin Jaworski was named #PatriotMBB Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the second-straight season At No. 2 Colgate 77, No. 7 Boston U. 69 •.@LoyolaMBB So. F Santi Aldama is one of two players in NCAA DI and the second #PatriotMBB player to average 20 points (21.2 No. 6 Bucknell 92, at No. 3 Lafayette 84 ppg) and 10 rebounds (10.1 rpg) in a season. He joins @ColgateMBB legend Adonal Foyle who accomplished the feat twice. At No. 4 Army 89, No. 5 American 66 •.@NavyAthletics Sr. G Cam Davis is one of 10 finalists for the 2020-21 Men’s Basketball @SnrCLASSAward •.@ColgateMBB’s Burns became the 21st League history in scoring with 1,653 points and is one assist shy of becoming the 2nd #Pa- Wednesday, March 3 - First Round triotMBB player to reach 1,600 points and 500 assists, joining former @AU_MBasketball star Sa’eed Nelson. No. 7 Boston U. 69, No. 10 Lehigh 58 Patriot League Notebook HOW TO WATCH/LISTEN TO PATRIOT LEAGUE MEN’S BASKETBALL IN THE POSTSEASON No. 14 Colgate takes on No. 3-seed Arkansas in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday at Bankers Life Field- house in Indianapolis, Ind. The South Region game will tip-off at 12:45 p.m. Fans can watch the game live on TruTV with Spero Dedes on play-by-play duties with Brendan Haywood providing analysis and Lauren Shehadi reporting from the sideline. Westwood One will carry a live national radio broadcast with Kevin Kugler and P.J. Carlesimo on the call. BURNS, DECHELLIS, CALDWELL AND O’NEIL COLLECT PATRIOT LEAGUE MEN’S BASKETBALL MAJOR AWARDS Colgate senior guard Jordan Burns collected 2020-21 Patriot League Men’s Basketball Player of the Year presented by PenFed Credit Union. Burns led the Raiders to an 11-1 regular-season record, a North Division title and the No. 2 seed in the League Championship. Navy Head Coach Ed DeChellis guided the Mids to the South Division title and their first No. 1 Nearly every Patriot League men’s and seed in the Patriot League Championship since the 1996-97 season to earn Patriot League Men’s Basketball Coach of the women’s basketball game is available on Year honors. Army West Point junior guard Josh Caldwell was voted the Patriot League Men’s Basketball Defensive Player ESPN+ - www.patriotleague.tv. Internation- of the Year after leading the League with 38 steals. American freshman forward Johnny O’Neil was named the Patriot al viewers can visit www.patriotleague.org/ League Rookie of the Year after leading all League freshmen in scoring (10.6 ppg) and rebounding (6.3 rpg). watch for League coverage. In addition, se- lect Patriot League basketball games will be LAFAYETTE’S JAWORSKI EARNS MEN’S BASKETBALL SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR televised nationally on CBS Sports Network. Lafayette senior guard Justin Jaworski was named the 2020-21 Patriot League Men’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year in addition to earning a spot on the six-member Academic All-Patriot League squad. Jaworski became the fourth Patriot League men’s Today’s Scholar-Athletes, Tomorrow’s Leaders basketball student-athlete to repeat as scholar-athlete of the year and the eighth to make the Academic All-Patriot League The Patriot League continually demon- team for the third time. Navy senior guard Cam Davis and Bucknell junior guard Andrew Funk both made the academic strates that student-athletes can excel team for the second time. American junior forward Connor Nelson, Colgate junior guard Tucker Richardson and Loyola at both academics and athletics without Maryland sophomore forward Santi Aldama all earned a spot on the academic team for the first time. sacrificing its high standards. The Patriot League’s athletic success is achieved while 2020-21 PATRIOT LEAGUE INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM SINGLE-GAME HIGHS its member institutions remain commit- INDIVIDUAL TEAM ted to its founding principle of admitting POINTS: Justin Jaworski (LAF), 37 (at Lehigh, 1.2.21) POINTS: Colgate, 105 (vs. Bucknell, 3.10.21) and graduating student-athletes that are REBOUNDS: Santi Aldama (LOY), 22 (at Lafayette, 2.13.21) MARGIN: Army, 61 (vs. USMMA, 11.25.20) academically representative of their class. ASSISTS: Jalin Sinclair (LEH), 9 (at Holy Cross, 1.24.21) FG PCT: Colgate .651 (vs. Army, 1.2.21) Participation in athletics at Patriot League STEALS: Connor Nelson (AU), Austin Butler (HC), 6 REBOUNDS: Loyola, 57 (vs. Lafayette, 2.13.21) institutions is viewed as an important com- BLOCKS: Matt Faw (HC), 8 (vs. Colgate, 1.31.21) STEALS: Lafayette, 17 (vs. Buck, 1.9.21); HC, 17 (vs. Army, 2.21.21) ponent of a well rounded education. 3-PT FG MADE: Jamir Harris (AU), 9 (at Loyola, 1.24.21) 3-POINT FG MADE: Army, 15 (vs. CCSU, 11.27.20); BU, 15 (vs. Army, 2.27.21) Today’s Scholar-Athletes, Tomorrow’s Leaders 1 Today’s Scholar-Athletes, Tomorrow’s Leaders 1 TM Release 3.17.21 www.patriotleague.org witter.com/PatriotLeague acebook.com/patriotleague Patriot League Men’s Basketball In The NCAA Tournament All-Time Patriot League NCAA Tournament Results .... •COLGATE TOURNAMENT HISTORY: Colgate makes its second NCAA Tournament appearance in 1992 First Round: Fordham (L, 85-58, Massachusetts) three years and fourth in program history. The Raiders fell to No. 2 Tennessee in the 2019 NCAA 1993 First Round: Holy Cross (L, 94-64, Arkansas) Tournament, 77-70. Then sophomore guard Jordan Burns scored a game-high 32 points on 12-of-20 1994 First Round: Navy (L, 76-53, Missouri) shooting, including 8-of-13 from 3-point range. Then freshman guard Tucker Richardson added 10 1995 First Round: Colgate (L, 82-68, Kansas) points and four assists. The Raiders earned consecutive tournament bids in 1995 and 1996, be- 1996 First Round: Colgate (L, 68-59, Connecticut) coming the first League team to accomplish the feat. Since then Bucknell has done it twice, making 1997 First Round: Navy (L, 75-61, Utah) the field in 2017 and 2018 in addition to the 2006 and 2007 seasons. Navy (1997, 1998), Lafayette (1999, 2000), Holy Cross (2001, 2002, 2003) and American (2008, 2009) have all made back-to- 1998 First Round: Navy (L, 88-52, North Carolina) back appearances. The Raiders went to the tournament in consecutive seasons behind the Patriot 1999 First Round: Lafayette (L, 75-54, Miami) League’s first NBA Draft selection Adonal Foyle (1997/1st Rd./8th Pick/Golden State Warriors). Foyle 2000 First Round: Lafayette (L, 73-47, Temple) and the Raiders fell to No. 1 Kansas (82-68) in 1995 and to No.