2019-20 LAFAYETTE BASKETBALL Brian Ludrof: Director of Creative Media, MBB Contact • Office: (610) 330-5003 • Cell: (610) 844-3893 E-mail: [email protected] • @LafayetteMBB • facebook.com/LafayetteMBB • www.GoLeopards.com • #RollPards GAME INFORMATION GAME 20 HAMILTON, N.Y. / 7 P.M. Arena: Cotterell Court Facebook: Facebook.com/LafayetteMBB Twitter: @LafayetteMBB Lafayette Leopards (12-7, 4-4 PL) Instagram: @lafayettembb Head Coach: Fran O’Hanlon (Villanova, 1970) TV/Online: Lafayette Sports Network Career Record: 335-402 (25th Season) Record at LC: Same Series: Colgate leads, 55-51 First Meeting: AT 2/25/1916 - W, 34-23 - Scranton Last Year’s Meetings: 1/23/19 - L, 57-47 - Hamilton Colgate Raiders (16-5, 7-1 PL) 3/2/19 - L, 76-70 - Easton Head Coach: Matt Langel (Penn, 2000) This Year’s Meeting: Career Record: 120-147 (9th Season) Record at GATE: Same 1/15/20 - W, 71-67 - Easton Current Series Streak: Lafayette, +1 OPENING TIP c Lafayette heads to Hamilton, N.Y. eyeing a season sweep of top-of-the-table Colgate on Wednesday evening. The Leopards took the first meeting on Jan. 15, 71-67, the only league team to knock off the Raiders this season. SCHEDULE / RESULTS NOVEMBER c Lafayette's Saturday wins over Lehigh for the men's and women's basketball teams marked the first time 5 COLUMBIA W, 65-63 since the 2014-15 campaign that both programs along with the football team beat Lehigh in the same season. 9 at St. Francis Brooklyn L, 73-72 13 at Princeton W, 72-65 16 DELAWARE L, 81-73 cJunior Justin Jaworski is moving up the Lafayette all-time scoring list after becoming the program’s 46th 19 PENN W, 86-75 1,000-point scorer earlier this season. Jaworski currently ranks 37th among the program’s top career scorers, 24 FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON W, 80-75 tallying 1,070 points in two-plus seasons on College Hill. DECEMBER 3 at Saint Joseph’s W, 94-71 PROBABLE STARTErs 7 at Cornell W, 62-59 No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt. PPG PPG (PL) APG APG (PL) RPG RPG (PL) 19 WIDENER W, 96-56 3 Tyrone Perry So. G 6-1 165 8.2 8.4 1.8 1.8 2.9 2.6 22 at Rutgers L, 63-44 29 at Sacred Heart W, 67-66 11 Justin Jaworski Jr. G 6-2 194 16.9 13.8 2.9 3.4 2.6 3.0 23 Lukas Jarrett Sr. F 6-8 207 9.4 10.9 3.1 4.3 4.5 4.9 JANUARY 33 Leo O’Boyle Fr. F 6-7 203 4.5 8.5 0.6 0.6 1.8 2.8 2 at Boston U. * L, 73-72 45 Neal Quinn Fr. F 7-0 265 3.1 4.3 0.4 0.6 2.1 2.8 5 BUCKNELL * L, 78-66 8 HOLY CROSS * W, 82-64 11 at Loyola * W, 65-62 OFF THE BENCH 15 COLGATE * W, 71-67 No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt. PPG PPG (PL) APG APG (PL) RPG RPG (PL) 18 at Navy * L, 68-66 22 ARMY * L, 94-74 4 Jay Vaughan So. G 5-11 166 0.9 0.5 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.3 25 at Lehigh * W, 74-56 13 Sean Good Fr. F 6-10 200 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.1 1.9 1.1 29 at Colgate * 7 p.m. 14 Cal Reichwein Sr. G 6-3 217 1.6 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.3 20 E.J. Stephens Jr. G 6-1 173 10.5 10.1 2.4 2.4 2.9 3.0 FEBRUARY 1 AMERICAN * 2 p.m. 21 Alex Petrie Jr. G 6-2 185 - - - - - - 3 at Bucknell * 7 p.m. 24 Kyle Stout Sr. G 6-6 205 4.5 3.9 1.1 0.9 2.5 3.1 8 LEHIGH * 2 p.m. 32 Michael Anekwe So. F 6-6 222 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.0 1.0 1.0 12 at Army * 7 p.m. 15 at Holy Cross * 2 p.m. 44 Dylan Hastings Jr. F 6-8 227 1.1 0.8 0.6 0.9 2.7 2.4 19 BOSTON U. * 7 p.m. 54 Myles Cherry Sr. F 6-8 247 10.9 11.0 2.2 1.6 6.5 6.3 23 LOYOLA * 2 p.m. - Tomas Verbinskis So. F 6-7 210 - - - - - - 26 at American * 7 p.m. 29 NAVY * 2 p.m. LAST THREE OUTINgs MARCH Jan. 18 at Navy Jan. 22 vs. Army Jan. 25 at Lehigh 3 PLT First Round TBA L, 68-66 L, 94-74 W, 74-56 5 PLT Quarterfinals TBA Pts. Myles Cherry (22) Pts. Lukas Jarrett (18) Pts. Justin Jaworski (20) 8 PLT Semifinals TBA 11 PLT Championship TBA Rebs. Myles Cherry (7) Rebs. Myles Cherry (9) Rebs. Kyle Stout (6) Assts. Three Players (4) Assts. Lukas Jarrett (4) Assts. Myles Cherry (4) All Times Eastern * Patriot League Game FG%/3FG% 44.4/28.0 FG%/3FG% 40.0/41.4 FG%/3FG% 50.0/39.3 BOLD CAPS = home contests 2019-20 LAFAYETTE BASKETBALL • PAGE 1 2019-20 LAFAYETTE BASKETBALL • PAGE 1 #O25 STATISTICAL COMPARISON Throughout the 2019-20 Lafayette men’s basketball season, Lafayette athletics is honoring head coach Fran O’Hanlon for his 25-year tenure on College Hill. LAFAYETTE STATISTICS COLGATE O’Hanlon is the longest-tenured coach in the Patriot League, has won four 5/0 Starters Returning/Lost 4/1 conference titles and owns three NCAA Tournament appearances, including 72.7 75.0 both feats most recently in 2014-15. The native of Phidelphia holds the overall Scoring Average Patriot League record for games coached with 737 and currently sits at 335 68.9 Scoring Defense 69.1 career victories. +3.8 Scoring Margin +5.9 LAST TIME OUT 47.1 FG% 45.3 Junior Justin Jaworski got back on track with a game-high 20 points to power Lafayette past Lehigh 43.1 FG% Defense 43.7 on the road on Saturday afternoon, 74-56, in the first 2019-20 edition of The Rivalry. The Leopards 37.2 3PT% 35.9 controlled the game for all but the opening 2:14, stretching an eight-point edge at halftime to 16 with a 10-2 run over the first four minutes of the second stanza to put it out of reach early. 32.5 3PT% Defense 29.7 74.4 FT% 77.1 Jaworski made just 3-of-10 from distance, but went 5-for-7 on two-point field goals for his 20 points 34.5 Rebound Average 35.7 to go along with a pair of rebounds, assists and steals. Freshman Leo O’Boyle, who earned his first 33.6 Rebound Against Average 35.7 career start in the contest, was effective, scoring 12 points on 4-of-8 from the floor with five rebounds and three assists to just one turnover in 23 minutes of run. Senior co-captain Lukas Jarrett was the +0.9 Rebounding Margin 0.0 other double-figure scorer with 11 points (4-of-6 from the field) and classmateKyle Stout gave solid 12.6 Turnover Average 11.7 minutes as well with seven points and six boards in his 19:20 of action. 9.5 Forced Turnovers Avg. 11.7 -3.2 0.0 While Lafayette has held the upper hand in an all-time series with its rival by a 144-89 margin, the Turnover Margin Mountain Hawks have gotten the better of it recently as Saturday’s win snaps an eight-game slide 1.3 (308/240) Ast./Turn. Ratio 1.2 (305/245) for the Maroon and White in The Rivalry. The Leopards’ last win prior to Saturday’s contest came on Feb. 22, 2015, 63-61, in Bethlehem. LAST MEETING Sophomore Tyrone Perry sunk a triple from the right corner with 2.6 seconds to play and senior co-captain Myles Cherry followed with two free throws at the 1.5-second mark as Lafayette knocked off Colgate in the program’s first-ever School Day game on Jan. 15 at Kirby Sports Center, 71-67. Trailing by a 60-45 score with 6:45 to play, the Leopards flipped the switch in a second half dominated by Colgate up to that point. A 13-0 run over a 2:14 stretch including two triples from Perry forced a Raiders’ timeout at 4:31 with the margin just two, 60-58. After a three from senior co-captainLukas Jarrett at the top of the key gave Lafayette its first lead since 5:30 left in the first half, the final 2:27 went back-and-forth as Colgate’s Nelly Cummings answered a Cherry bucket in the lane to put the Raiders up 67-66 with 1:09 remaining. An offensive foul gave the ball back to the visitors, but Will Rayman missed on a three attempt to set up the biggest shot of the game from Perry. LAST MEETING At the end of the shot clock and the game clock ticking under five seconds, Jarrett drove to the middle and kicked to Perry in the right corner, who launched the winning Lafayette 71, Colgate 67 bucket, a highly-contested three-pointer that caught nothing but net. Colgate threw January 15, 2020 | Easton, Pa. Official Basketball Box Score - Final Game Time: 12:00 AM the ball away on its counter opportunity and Cherry iced the game, making it a two- Colgate at Lafayette Game Duration: 1:46 Attendance: 2,544 01/16/20 Kirby Sports Center, Easton possession lead with a pair of foul shots and 1.5 seconds on the clock, closing it with 2019-20 Men's Basketball Officials: Paul Faia, Brandon Williams, Ed Corliss a final of 71-67.