THE MATCHUP
The Leopards get back on the road to take on Colgate. The Raiders enter the contest at 15-7 (9-0 PL) on a 21 game conference win streak. Colgate is led by senior guard Tucker Richardson who is averaging 14.5 points per game.

LAST MEETING
The last meeting between these two teams took place in Hamilton N.Y. on Feb. 14, 2022. The Leopards came up short, with the Raiders taking home a 69-61 win. Sophomore CJ Fulton led the Leopards with 11 points.

FOUR IN A ROW
The Leopards won four games in a row for the first time since the shortened 2020-21 season. The Maroon and White captured victories over American (70-59), Holy Cross (62-48), Bucknell (74-67) and Navy (59-50). Senior Leo O'Boyle led the Leopards by averaging 15.7 points per game over that span. The win streak which began on Jan. 11 at Navy was snapped in a 61-49 loss at Lehigh on Jan 21.

BACK TO WHERE IT BEGAN
Lafayette head coach Mike Jordan spent nine seasons as an assistant coach on the Colgate staff before coming to College Hill. Jordan helped push the Raiders to three straight seasons (2017-20) in which they set record win totals. That time included consecutive 20-win seasons (the first in program history) in 2018-19 (24-11) and 2019-20 (25-9) with an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2018-19. Leopards' assistant coach Sean O'Brien also comes from Colgate where he graduated in 2018. With the Raiders, he was a two-year captain and two-time team MVP who racked up 1,040 points, 301 rebounds and 335 assists while setting school records for career games played (127) and single-season minutes played (1,159). As a senior, he earned All-Patriot League Third-Team honors while ranking fourth nationally in assist-turnover ratio.

FINDING THE FRESHMAN
Freshman forward Josh Rivera netted a career-high 27 points at American on Jan. 18. Against Army on Jan. 1, Rivera managed 16 points and six rebounds in a losing effort. During the second game of the season against St. John's, the freshman scored a then career-high 17 points, secured five rebounds and managed two blocks. Against Loyola last time out, Rivera netted 10 points and secured eight
rebounds.

SHOOTERS SHOOT
Lafayette ranks 10th in the country in three-point attempts per game at 28.0. Three different Leopards have attempted more than 100 shots from beyond the arc. Sophomore guard TJ Berger leads the Leopards with 138 three-point shot attempts. Senior Leo O'Boyle (112) and sophomore CJ
Fulton (109) round out the top three.

FAMILIAR FOES
Lafayette has played 475 games against current Patriot League members. In League play, Lafayette is 203-272 in the regular season and 23-28 in the Patriot League Tournament.

CASHING IN AT THE CHARITY STRIPE
Senior forward Leo O'Boyle ranks third in the Patriot League in free-throw percentage at 87.3%. O'Boyle has netted 48 of his 55 free-throws attempted in 2022-23. He also ranks seventh in the conference in three-point field goal percentage at 42.9%.

DOMINATING DEFENSE
Lafayette has held four different opponents to 50 points or fewer this season: CCSU (50), Navy (50), Holy Cross (48) and Loyola Md. (46). The Leopards took home victories in all four of those games. The last time a Lafayette team held four or more opponents to 50 or fewer points was during the 2003-04 season.

1,000 POINTS
Senior Leo O'Boyle is closing in on 1,000 points as a Leopard with 907 career points. He will need to average at least 9.3 points per game over the final 10 contests to reach the century mark. O'Boyle currently averages 12.6 points per game.

THAT MIKE JORDAN
For the first time in 27 seasons, the Leopards have a new leader roaming the sidelines in 2000 Penn graduate Mike Jordan, the 19th head coach in Lafayette history. Jordan won three conference championships in the last four seasons as an assistant coach and was named head coach of the
Leopards on March 29, 2022. Jordan played 11 seasons professionally across Europe and was a three-time All-Ivy League selection, two-time Ivy League champion and Ivy League Player of the Year.

BLOCK PARTY
Junior forward Kyle Jenkins registered four blocks in an overtime win versus Bucknell on Jan. 8. That marked the second consecutive game that a Lafayette player recorded at least four blocks. At Boston University on Jan. 5 sophomore Justin Vander Baan recorded four blocks in a 73-69 overtime loss, and two blocks in a 62-48 victory over Holy Cross on Jan. 14. Jenkins managed two more blocks in the victory at Navy on Jan. 11. Freshman Josh Rivera registered four blocks last time out against Loyola Md.

SHUFFLING STARTERS
The Leopards have used 14 different starting lineups throughout this season. Mike Jordan and his staff have shuffled through nine different starters. CJ Fulton is the only Leopard to start every game this season.

OFFENSIVE EXPLOSION
The Leopards scored a season-high 90 points in their second victory of the season against La Salle on Dec. 21. The Maroon and White had four players score in double figures in CJ Fulton (20), Leo O'Boyle (13), Josh Rivera (12) and TJ Berger (10). The Leopards shot 61.5% from the field and 57.7% from beyond the arc.

FAMILIAR FACES, FAMILIAR FOES
Mike Jordan and the Leopards took on some old pals along the way, highlighted by the final nonconference test at La Salle against his college head coach, Fran Dunphy, who is also in his first season as the head coach of the Explorers. Lafayette hosted Jordan's alma mater, Penn, earlier this year and will play his former boss and college teammate, Matt Langel of Colgate, twice in the league stretch of the schedule. Jordan worked as an assistant under previous foe Drexel's head coach Zach Spiker in 2020-21, helping lead the Dragons to their first-ever CAA title and the program's first NCAA Tournament appearance in 25 years.

SOLO SENIOR
Just one senior is rostered for Lafayette in Leo O'Boyle, who plays a versatile role as a big body
and a shooter. O'Boyle netted a career-high 24 points against Bucknell on Jan. 9 and has scored in
double figures during 14 games. Senior day will be held on Feb. 11 against Boston U.

NEED SOME ASSISTANCE?
Sophomore guard CJ Fulton is second in the Patriot League in assists at 4.9 per game. In 22 games, the Belfast, Ireland native has dished out 107 assists on the year. Fulton also ranks first in the conference in assist/turnover ratio at 2.7.