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HAMILTON – Quality shooting was the key Saturday afternoon as Colgate defeated Loyola by a wide margin of 84-60 behind four players in double-digits during its annual Alzheimer's Awareness Game.
 
"I'd first like to thank the Alzheimer's Association of Central New York and Under Armour for their generosity in providing T-shirts for us to bring some awareness to a terrible disease in Alzheimer's and giving us a chance to raise a little bit of money for them," Colgate head coach Matt Langel said.
 
"It was a great day for us. Ethan Jacobs really anchored our defense. Without (Dylon) Cormier in their lineup, who is the leading scorer in the league, Loyola really tried to pound it down inside and get the ball to (Jordan) Latham. Ethan did a great job of not allowing that to happen. He had a couple big blocked shots and rebounds that jump-started his offense.
 
"On the offensive end, we moved the ball and we attacked but that's what we are capable of. I think all the teams in the league are aware of that and know that but they've just been able to play a better offense than we have. As we move forward if our defense can sustain, then we have a chance to beat anybody in our league on any given night."
 
Behind a solid crowd dressed in purple, the Raiders shot 60.4 percent on the day for their third highest scoring game of the season. Colgate also drained 12 of its 18 from behind the arc to finish the afternoon shooting 66.7 percent from long.
 
The contest was pretty even throughout the opening 14 minutes with the Greyhounds holding the one-point edge with 6:16 left in the first. A 20-5 Raider run to close out the half, however, sent Colgate into the break with the 44-30 advantage.

The Raiders started the second half with a trey from Jacobs to extend their lead and never looked back. Loyola pulled within 15 points with a little less than 12 minutes to play but Colgate quickly increased its advantage to a comfortable 20-points to ultimately secure the victory.
 
Colgate (10-17, 4-12 PL) earned four players in double-figures for the second straight game. Ethan Jacobs recorded a game-high performance, posting 20 points, three boards, and two blocks. The junior was 8-of-10 from the floor, while going 4-of-5 from downtown for his second career 20-point game. Austin Tillotson was a close second with 17 points and a game-high seven assists. He is now in ninth place all-time in program history with 113 season assists.

Murphy Burnatowski and Nathan Harries closed out the Raiders in double-figures with 15 and 10 points, respectively. Burnatowski led all players on the boards with five rebounds, while Harries matched his career-high 10 points.
 
Luke Roh added four assists in the contest, which now ties him for ninth in Colgate's all-time career assists with 246.
 
The Raiders were one assist shy of matching their season-high with 22 assists throughout the game. Colgate also notched 32 points in the paint, while converting 18 points off of Greyhound turnovers.

Loyola (10-17, 7-6 PL) saw R.J. Williams earn a team-high 16 points in the contest. Jarred Jones also added 10 points to the Greyhounds total. Three Loyola players tallied four boards to lead the team, while Jevon Patton lead the Greyhounds with three assists.
 
The Greyhounds shot 42.6 percent from the floor while also shooting 42.9 percent from downtown.
 
In the opening 20 minutes of action there were five lead changes and four ties.
 
Loyola led with 6:16 left to play before the break after a 3-pointer from Denzel Brito but Colgate responded with a 20-5 run to close out the half, taking a 14-point edge into the second half.
 
Colgate had seven of its 12 treys in the first 20 minutes, while missing only two from behind the arc in the first half.
 
Like he started the first half, Jacobs drained a 3-pointer to begin the second half, which increased the Raiders lead to 17 with 18 minutes to play.
 
Williams cut the Colgate lead to 15 points with less than 12 minutes to go but that would be the closest they would come as the Raiders saw Tillotson hit back-to-back 3-pointers for Colgate to push its lead to a comfortable 20-point edge.  
 
The Raiders would control the remainder of the game to earn the 24-point victory for their fourth conference win.
 
Colgate is back in action Wednesday when it hosts Lafayette at 7 p.m. on Cotterell Court. The Raiders will also recognize three senior players prior to the start of the game.
 
"The league has proven that any team, top to bottom, can beat any team on any given night," Langel added. "We will enjoy this one for today and then we will start to go work on Lafayette, who's playing great. They've got their all-league player back and we will try to find a way to win that game at home."
 
NOTES: Burnatowski needs just 68 more points to reach 1,000 in his two years at Colgate … Tillotson and Burnatowski are both riding a four-game double-figure scoring streak.