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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Raiders reach new low
There is ugly, and then there is Colgate's 52-36 loss at Arizona State.

Imagine holding your opponent to 7 first half field goals and still trailing by 8 at the break. That was Colgate's fate.

Of course when you only make 5 field goals yourself, odds are you will be behind at the break. Colgate went 5 for 22 (22.7 percent) in a half that saw them hold Arizona State to three field goals in the last 10 minutes of the half and still fall further behind.

It was an 11-8 Arizona State lead when Daniel Waddy showed off for the friends back home with a dunk at the 10:09 mark. Colgate would not get another field goal until Kyle Chones laid one in with 10 seconds left in the half.

ASU was not exactly on fire during that stretch. Serge Angounou hit three treys, spread apart far enough for him to have actually spent a few minutes on the bench between the last two, to account for all of the Sun Devils' 9-0 (dare we call it a run) spurt.

Colgate's offensive ineptitude did not end there. Trailing 20-12 at the break, the Raiders came out and scored on their first possession after the intermission. Kendall Chones' jumper with 19:03 to play answered an ASU basket and kept the margin at 8, But by the time Colgate scored again -- a Kendall Chones layup at the 11:19 mark, they were down 25 thanks to a 16-2 ASU run.

Phoenix-native Jon Simon had 15 for Colgate before fouling out in his return to his home state. Nobody else scored more than 7 for the Raiders.

It was Arizona State's best defensive effort since Harry Truman was president. The last time a Colgate team had a worse offensive night, the current team was either unborn or in diapers (35 points in a loss to Hartford in their 1-24 1985-86 season).
Box score | AP | East Valley Tribune | Devils Digest | Arizona Republic

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