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Final Non-Conference Tilt for Men
1/16/2011 2:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
The Game: Dartmouth (4-10) at Colgate (1-15)
Location: Cotterell Court (3,100), Hamilton, N.Y.
Tipoff: Monday, Jan. 17 at 4 p.m.
Series Record: Colgate leads 20-17
Live Audio - Dave Collins (play-by-play) on WUVR 98.9 FM and 1490 AM
Live Stats
Complete Game Notes
Final Non-League Game
• Although the Ivy slate began over a week ago against Harvard, Dartmouth has one last game outside the conference in a rematch against Colgate. The Big Green won the first meeting this year back on Nov. 27, 80-63.
• Dartmouth enters the contest on a three-game losing skid, its longest of the season. The last Big Green victory came nearly four weeks ago in Iowa at Drake on Dec. 21, 67-59.
• In the 68-53 loss to Harvard, junior David Rufful led the Green with 16 points, one shy of his season high. Classmate Jabari Trotter added 10 points, all coming in the second half.
• Rookie Gediminas Bertasius came off the bench to grab a team-high six boards, the second straight game in which he led the squad on the glass.
• Rufful has taken over the Big Green lead in scoring at 9.2 ppg, surpassing Trotter who had held onto the post since the second game.
• No Dartmouth team has shot better than 71.5 percent from the free throw line in over 20 years, but the current Green squad is at 71.9 percent.
Series vs. Colgate
• Both basketball programs debuted in the 1900-01 season, and first met four years later on Dec. 7, 1904. Dartmouth won that contest, 29-19, but Colgate has a 20-17 advantage in the series.
• In the 80-63 Big Green win in November, no less than six players scored in double figures for Dartmouth with senior Clive Weeden leading the way with 14 points while collecting 12 rebounds for his third career double-double. It was the highest scoring game of the season for the Big Green.
• This is the 15th consecutive season the two schools have met on the hardwood, with Colgate winning 11 of the 16 games in that time.
• Dartmouth is just 1-7 at Colgate's Cotterell Court, but that victory came in the last trip here on Nov. 24, 2007, an 81-76 Big Green triumph.
Scouting the Raiders
• After losing its first 11 games, Colgate began the new year with a convincing 80-61 victory on the road at Longwood. That still remains as the Raiders only win of the season.
• Like Dartmouth, most of Colgate's work has come on the road with just five home games thus far. The Raiders have lost each of those five, but none by more than nine points.
• Forward Yaw Gyawu leads Colgate at 12.9 points per game while grabbing 4.6 rebounds a night as well. The team's top rebounder is Nick Pascale with a 6.2 average.
• The Raiders have struggled mightily from long range, connecting on just 28.4 percent (75-of-264). They haven't made enough threes per game (5 minimum) to be ranked by percentage, but just two of the 278 teams that have own a lower rate.
• On the flip side, Colgate has done a decent job of keeping its opponents hitting threes (32.0 pct.).
• Considering that the Raiders and Dartmouth are two of the 20 lowest-scoring teams in the country, the 80-63 game in November was a bit surprising.
• The Raiders are coached by Emmett Davis, who is 159-204 in this his 13th season at Colgate and the winningest coach in the program's history.
Opportunity for Patriot Reprieve
Dartmouth had enjoyed its recent meetings with Patriot League teams, dating back to its 49-43 win over Bucknell last year. Earlier this season, the Big Green handled Colgate, 80-63, and then knocked off Army on Dec. 11, 71-68, before the Bison ended the modest three-game streak in Lewisburg on Dec. 30, 74-57, and Army exacted its revenge with a 67-47 home triumph on Jan. 3. A victory against the Raiders would give the Green a winning record (3-2) against Patriot schools this year.
Oh Brother There Art Thou!
Freshman Tyler Melville gets his second family reunion this year by playing against the Raiders as his older brother, Sterling, plays for Colgate. At Leede Arena in November, each scored two points and hauled in one rebound, but Tyler won the sibling rivalry as Dartmouth triumphed by 17, 80-63.
Raise the Rufful
With the start of the Ivy schedule, junior David Rufful raised his game a notch to lead the Big Green in a tough assignment against Harvard. The wing hit 6-of-11 from the floor with a pair of three-pointers for 16 points (one off his high total this year), plus grabbed five rebounds in a season-high 35 minutes.
Trotter Turns a Trend
After scoring a career-high 24 points against Hartford in the third game of the season, junior Jabari Trotter did not score his season average in the next 10 games before hitting up Harvard for 10 points on Jan. 8. Six of his points came on two triples, his first game with a couple of three-pointers since Dec. 1 at Vermont.
Ivy League RPI
Some high-profile wins by conference teams and solid play before the start of league play have helped the Ivy League to a current conference RPI of 14. That is the highest the league has enjoyed since its high-water mark of 13 at the end of the 2001-02 season (first tracked in 1993-94). A Dartmouth win over Colgate would also help the league reach the .500 mark against Division I non-conference teams for the first time since that 2001-02 campaign; the Ivies have just four such games remaining and are currently 52-52 on the year.
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