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Sunday, February 18, 2007
'Gate's offense busted at Marist
It is not often you can shoot under 42 percent from the field and still win by almost 20 points. Playing against Colgate, one of the nation's worst offensive teams, Marist did just that.

Give the Red Foxes credit. They now have 21 wins. They sit atop the MAAC and have a good chance of making the NCAA Tournament. But before anybody in Poughkeepsie gets too excited about the defense Marist played in Saturday's 63-47 BracketBusters win over Colgate, you should know what you saw Saturday in the McCann Center was pretty much what we have seen all season from the Raiders in the Patriot League.

“We’ve been getting better, game by game. Tonight, they only had 20 points in the second half," Marist junior Ryan Stilphen told the Poghkeepsie Journal. “If we can hold teams to 20 points in a half, we’re going to win a lot of basketball games.”

If you could play Colgate more often, you could probably do just that.

Holding Colgate to 29.2 percent (7 of 24) shooting in the second half, 34 percent (17 of 50) for the game is pretty much what happens on a nightly basis. That is why the Raiders are ranked 305 out of 325 Division I schools in field goal percentage.

Holding Colgate under 50 points? More old hat. It has happened seven times already, three times in the Patriot League. This is the No. 320 scoring team in the nation we're talking about.

Colgate actually had a 7 point lead midway through the first half. But Marist (21-7) went ahead with a 9-0 run and extended its lead to 31-27 at the half. The gang that can't shoot straight never could not recover.

Jon Simon (10 points) was the only guy in double figures for the Raiders (9-17), who were 7 of 14 at the free throw line..

Will Whittington led Marist with 15 points, all on three-pointers (he was 5 for 12 at the arc). Stilphen and Wilfred Benjamin each added 12 for the Red Foxes, who were 20 of 48 from the field (41.7 percent). Marist was 16 of 19 at the foul line and outrebounded Colgate 40-26.

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