--The Raiders beat perennial power Bucknell in the Patriot League semifinals, 54-50, to advance to the league championship game against American. Colgate finished the regular season with a 7-7 league record, but it has won five games in a row.

--Colgate jumped on Bucknell early, playing its typical smothering defense and taking a 27-10 lead into halftime. The Raiders forced 22 Bucknell turnovers, while committing only eight themselves.

--The Raiders got a scare in the first round, when a huge second-half lead almost disappeared as Lafayette used a 17-1 run to cut Colgate's lead to 75-74 with 30 seconds to play. Good defense saved the Raiders again, however, as they held on Lafayette's final possession and came away with a 76-74 win.

QUOTE TO NOTE
"It's March. The intensity picks up. One and done. The pressure is on. The opportunities were there, and I took them." -- G Kyle Roemer, to the Utica Observer-Dispatch, after scoring a career-high 32 points in a tournament win over Lafayette.

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