2019-20 PATRIOT LEAGUE MEN’S BASKETBALL CONTACT: RYAN SAKAMOTO - ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER FOR COMMUNICATIONTM S PHONE: (610) 289-1963 - E-MAIL: [email protected] Release 2.1.20 www.patriotleague.org witter.com/PatriotLeague acebook.com/patriotleague TM MEN’S BASKETBALL STANDINGS (as of 1.31.20) Upcoming Schedule (all times EST) Patriot League Overall Saturday, Feb. 1 Colgate at Holy Cross (CBSSN) .................. 2 p.m. W-L PCT. H A STREAK W-L PCT. H A N STREAK Boston U. at Bucknell (PLN) ...................... 2 p.m. Colgate 7-2 .778 4-1 3-1 L1 16-6 .727 9-1 6-5 1-0 L1 Navy at Loyola (PLN).................................. 5 p.m. Navy 6-3 .667 3-2 3-1 W1 12-8 .600 8-3 4-5 0-0 W1 American at Lafayette (PLN/LSN) .............. 7 p.m. Army at Lehigh (PLN/SE2) ......................... 7 p.m. Boston U. 6-3 .667 4-1 2-2 W2 12-10 .545 7-2 5-6 0-2 W2 AMERICAN 6-3 .667 4-1 2-2 W1 10-10 .500 6-3 4-7 0-0 W1 Monday, Feb. 3 Lafayette 5-4 .556 2-2 3-2 W2 13-7 .650 6-3 7-4 0-0 W2 Lafayette at Bucknell (CBSSN) ................... 7 p.m. Army 5-4 .556 2-2 3-2 W5 10-10 .500 5-4 5-6 0-0 W5 Bucknell 5-4 .556 4-1 1-3 L1 9-13 .409 6-3 2-9 1-1 L1 Recent Results Monday, Jan. 27 Lehigh 2-7 .222 2-2 0-5 L5 5-16 .238 4-4 1-12 0-0 L5 At American 77, Lehigh 56 Holy Cross 2-7 .222 2-2 0-5 L2 3-19 .136 2-7 0-11 1-1 L2 Loyola 1-8 .111 1-3 0-5 L8 9-13 .409 5-3 3-9 1-1 L8 Wednesday, Jan. 29 At Army West Point 68, Bucknell 59 Lafayette 80, at Colgate 78 At Navy 81, Holy Cross 66 Patriot League Men’s Basketball Twitter Notebook - @Patriot_GameDay - #PatriotMBB •5 #PatriotMBB League games this weekend; WATCH 4 games on @PatriotLeagueTV and 1 game on @CBSSportsNet At Boston U. 92, Loyola 77 •#PatriotMBB teams are shooting a combined 45.02 percent from the field, the 4th-best mark in @NCAA D1. The League’s 34.04 percent shooting from 3-point range is 13th among the 32 DI conferences. •Through 45 #PatriotMBB games 16 have been decided by 5 or fewer points and 11 have come down to the final possession PLN - Patriot League Network •.@ArmyWP_MBB’s Tommy Funk is 11 assists behind @LehighMBB’s Kahron Ross for the #PatriotMBB all-time lead in assists Stadium - Stadium TV •.@ColgateMBB is ranked 15th in the @CollegeInsider Mid-Major Top 25 after winning 10 of its last 12 games CBSSN - CBS Sports Network •.@ArmyWP_MBB Sr. G Tommy Funk and @LehighMBB Sr. G Jordan Cohen were selected as candidates for the 2020 @SnrCLASSAward ACCN- ACC Network •#PatriotMBB Players of the Week Announced; Player - @ArmyWP_MBB Sr. G Tommy Funk; Rookie - @HCrossMBB Fr. F Joe Pridgen AE.TV - AmericaEast.TV •.@AU_MBasketball Sr. G Sa’eed Nelson was selected the #PatriotMBB Preseason Player of the Year for the 2nd season in a row; Nelson ranks AFN - American Forces Network among the Top-25 League career leaders; 8th in scoring (1,902), 14th in assists (480) and 4th in steals (244). AT&T - AT&T SportsNet *.@LafayetteMBB’s Justin Jaworski joined @LehighMBB’s Jordan Cohen and @ColgateMBB’s Jordan Burns in making the #PatriotMBB 1,000-point BTN - Big Ten Network club during the 2019-20 season; The League currently has 9 active 1,000-point scorers BTN2go - Big Ten Digital Network *#PatriotMBB is 54-67 against non-League opponents with a .500 better record against 11 other leagues, including: America East (8-7); Atlantic BTNPlus - Big Ten Network Plus Sun (2-2); American (2-0); Big West (1-0); Horizon (2-0); Ivy (9-6); MAC (1-0); MEAC (2-0); NEC (7-7); SoCon (1-0), and WAC (2-0) CUSA - Conference USA Network *.@ColgateMBB’s 19 made 3-pointers, against Green Bay, is the 2nd most by a #PatriotMBB team; @Bucknell_MBB set the record with 21 last season ESPN3 - WatchESPN.com FS1 - Fox Sports 1 FCS - Fox College Sports Patriot League Notebook LSN* - Lafayette Sports Network HOW TO WATCH/LISTEN TO PATRIOT LEAGUE MEN’S BASKETBALL THIS WEEK * - RCN-4, RCN-8, WBPH-60 The Patriot League continues its League slate this weekend with five games on Saturday, including four on the Patriot League NBCSW - NBC Sports Network Washington Network (PLN) and one on CBS Sports Network. Jason Knapp and Mo Cassara have the call of Holy Cross vs. Colgate on CBS Sports SE2 - Service Electric 2 Network at 2 p.m. Also beginning at 2 p.m. will be Boston University at Bucknell on the PLN. Loyola Maryland takes on Navy SEC - SEC Network at 5 p.m. before Lafayette hosts American (7 p.m.) and Lehigh welcomes streaking Army West Point (7 p.m.) with live coverage TV3 - Charter TV3 of all three on the PLN. CBS Sports Network will also televise Monday night’s matchup between Lafayette and Bucknell, with WCC - WCC Digital Network coverage beginning at 7 p.m. from Sojka Pavilion. Four more games will be on the PLN. Visit the Patriot League Men’s Basketball WVU - WVUSports.com composite schedule on the League’s official website - www.PatriotLeague.org - for up-to-date listings on how to watch or listen throughout the season. ARMY’S TOMMY FUNK AND LEHIGH’S JORDAN COHEN NAMED 2020 SENIOR CLASS AWARD CANDIDATES Army West Point senior guard Tommy Funk and Lehigh senior guard Jordan Cohen were among the 30 NCAA DI men’s basketball student-athletes selected as candidates for the 2019-20 Senior CLASS Award. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA DI senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character and competition. An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School ®, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete. FOUR PATRIOT LEAGUE STUDENT-ATHLETES NAMED TO LOU HENSON AWARD WATCH LIST Four Patriot League men’s basketball student-athletes were selected to the Lou Henson Award Watch List when it was an- nounced by CollegeInsider.com. The Lou Henson Award is presented annually to the NCAA’s top Division I mid-major player. Pa- triot League Preseason Player of the Year American senior guard Sa’eed Nelson, Boston University senior forward Max Mahoney, 2018-19 Patriot League Player of the Year Colgate senior forward Rapolas Ivanauskas and Loyola Maryland senior guard Andrew The Patriot League Network, powered by Kostecka, the League’s leading scorer in 2018-19, were announced among the preseason watch list of 50 student-athletes. Stadium, streams more than 1,000 live events per year, including coverage of more PATRIOT LEAGUE FINISHES AMONG NCAA LEADERS IN GRADUATION RATE REPORT than a dozen Patriot League Championships. The Patriot League recorded a 94 percent graduation success rate (GSR) and an 83 percent federal graduation rate (FGR) in data released by the NCAA yesterday to rank atop the national leaders in both measures of academic success for student-athletes. Today’s Scholar-Athletes, Tomorrow’s Leaders The League’s 94 percent GSR is third in the nation while the 83 percent FGR leads the NCAA for the seventh consecutive year. The The Patriot League continually demonstrates League’s men’s basketball programs finished with the best FGR (93) mark in the nation with Bucknell, Colgate and Lehigh posting that student-athletes can excel at both aca- perfect scores. Patriot League men’s basketball also had the second-highest GSR score (98) in the NCAA with Boston University, demics and athletics without sacrificing its Bucknell, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette and Lehigh receiving perfect scores. high standards. The Patriot League’s athletic 2019-20 PATRIOT LEAGUE INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM SINGLE-GAME HIGHS success is achieved while its member institu- tions remain committed to its founding princi- INDIVIDUAL TEAM ple of admitting and graduating student-ath- POINTS: Jordan Burns (GATE), 40 (at Green Bay, 11.26.19) POINTS: Colgate, 99 (at Green Bay, 11.26.19) letes that are academically representative of REBOUNDS: Austin Butler (HC), 17 (vs. Sacred Heart, 12.22.19) MARGIN: Lafayette, 40 (vs. Widener, 12.19.19) their class. Participation in athletics at Patriot ASSISTS: Tommy Funk (ARMY), 13 (vs. FDU, 11.18.19) FG PCT: Loyola Maryland .627 (vs. UMass Lowell, 12.27.19) League institutions is viewed as an important STEALS: Sa’eed Nelson (AU), 8 (vs. UMBC, 12.3.19) REBOUNDS: Lehigh, 64 (vs. Cairn, 11.12.19) component of a well rounded education. BLOCKS: Dylan Hastings (LAF), Matt Faw (HC) 5 STEALS: American (2x), Bucknell, 13 3-PT FG MADE: Jordan Burns (GATE), 8 (at Green Bay, 11.26.19) 3-POINT FG MADE: Colgate, 19 (at Green Bay, 11.26.19) Today’s Scholar-Athletes, Tomorrow’s Leaders 1 Today’s Scholar-Athletes, Tomorrow’s Leaders 1 TM Release 2.1.20 www.patriotleague.org witter.com/PatriotLeague acebook.com/patriotleague Patriot League Men’S BasKetball NotebooK PATRIOT LEAGUE 4TH IN FIELD GOAL PCT. PICKING POCKETS IN THE PATRIOT Patriot League Media Contacts The 10 Patriot League men’s basketball Two of Patriot League players are among PATRIOT LEAGUE COMM. STAFF American teams are shooting a combined 45.02 the top-20 NCAA DI active leaders in Ryan Sakamoto / Asst.