MILWAUKEE, Wis. – No. 14 Colgate traded leads with No. 3 Wisconsin throughout the game in part due to a hot outside-shooting performance in the second half, but the Raiders fell to the Badgers 67-60 in the First Round of the 2022 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at the Fiserv Forum on Friday night.
First Team All-Patriot League senior guards Nelly Cummings and Tucker Richardson scored 20 and 15 points, respectively, with Cummings tallying 14 in the first half and Richardson scoring 12 in the second. Colgate, the second-ranked 3-point shooting team in NCAA DI, connected on 10-of-22 from long range, including 6-of-10 from downtown in the second half. Cummings added a team-high six assists, while Richardson matched a team-high with seven boards.
The Patriot League Champion Raiders, who played their third NCAA Tournament game in four seasons under Head Coach Matt Langel and fifth in program history, had their 15-game winning streak snapped. It was the second-longest current streak in NCAA DI before being broken.
TOURNAMENT BRACKET
POSTGAME PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT
NCAA TOURNAMENT FIRST ROUND (MIDWEST REGION)
NO. 3 WISCONSIN BADGERS (25-7, 15-5 Big Ten) 67, NO. 14 COLGATE RAIDERS (23-12, 16-2 PL) 60
Fiserv Forum/Milwaukee, Wis. 9:50 p.m. ET (TBS/Westwood One)
BOX SCORE
MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Senior guards Nelly Cummings and Tucker Richardson combined for 35 points, but No. 14 Colgate came up short in a 67-60 loss against No. 3 Wisconsin in front of a pro-Badger crowd at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wis.
*Cummings finished with a team-high 20 points with six rebounds and six assists, while Richardson added 15 points and seven boards to lead the Raiders. Junior center Keegan Records added seven points and seven boards.
*Cummings led the Raiders with 14 first-half points, including a layup at the buzzer to tie the score at 28 going into the break. The senior guard scored seven of Colgate’s first nine points and assisted the additional basket in taking an early 9-2 lead.
*Colgate outscored Wisconsin in the paint in the first half, 12-10.
*Richardson helped Colgate keep pace with the Badgers early in the second half, hitting four 3-pointers in the first five minutes to help the Raiders take a one-point edge. He scored 12 of his 15 points in the second half.
*The Raiders made six of its first seven shots from beyond the arc in the second half, with Richardson, senior guard Oliver Lynch-Daniels and junior guard Ryan Moffatt all connecting from deep.
*The Badgers used a 10-0 run during a six-minute stretch late in the game to open a lead they would not relinquish.
*Cummings eclipsed 1,000 career points at Colgate on a layup with four seconds remaining in the game. The senior guard, who played at Bowling Green as a freshman, surpassed 1,000 career points earlier in the season.
*The Raiders connected on 6-of-7 attempts from the free-throw line, all coming in the second half.
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