Box Score
FORT WORTH, Texas (11/24/09) – Senior guard
Kyle Roemer (Martinez, Calif.) scored a season-high 26 points on 9-12 shooting, 5-6 from behind the arc, but it wasn’t enough as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee came away with a 69-60 win in the consolation round of the Dick’s Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off Tournament.
Sophomore guard
Anthony Hill (Plano, Texas) also posted a season-high 10 points in 35 minutes of action, but no other Raider aside from Roemer and Hill managed to score more than eight points on the night.
The Raiders (0-4) started the game with a 12-5 run in the first 8:38 of the first half, as guards Hill and junior
Joe Hoban (West Chester, Pa.) combined for eight points during that stretch. Roemer ended the run with a three-pointer, to give Colgate its largest lead of the game. Milwaukee responded with a 12-5 run of its own to tie the game 17-17 with 6:29 remaining in the half. Roemer would out score the Panthers 9-6 to give the Colgate a 26-23 lead at halftime.
Both teams exchanged baskets to begin the second half before the Panthers built a 37-33 lead off a pair of jumpers from Lonnie Boga with 13:12 remaining. The Raiders would trim the gap to two, but an 11-2 run by Milwaukee with 9:08 left gave them a 48-37 lead. Colgate would narrow the lead to five, 53-48, with 6:38 to go, but that was the closest it would get.
Second half three-pointers did the Raiders in, as Milwaukee went 6-8 from beyond the arc, while Colgate went 4-11. Boga went 4-5 from three-point range en route to scoring 17 points and six rebounds. Milwaukee forward James Eayrs finished with a double-double 15 points and 10 rebounds, while
Yaw Gyawu (Lilburn, Ga.) finished with eight points and five rebounds.
Colgate (0-4) will head home this weekend as it plays host to St. Francis (N.Y.) on Saturday, Nov. 28. The game is slated to begin at 4 p.m. at Cotterell Court.