HAMILTON, NY – The Colgate men's basketball team drained a program-record 18 three-pointers en route to a 91-68 win over Union Tuesday night in the Raiders' home debut at Cotterell Court.
 
The 18 made three-pointers also tied a Patriot League single-game record as Colgate finished the game shooting 56.3 percent (18-for-32) from downtown. Four Raiders turned out double-digit efforts, led by junior Tom Rivard's season-best 17 points. Junior Jordan Swopshire and first-year Will Rayman contributed 15 apiece, while junior Sean O'Brien added 11 points and a team-best seven assists.

Deshon Burgess led Union with 20 points and six rebounds while Kevin Weckworth had 12 points and Greg King scored 11 with a four-for-four shooting effort at the free throw line. It was Union's first game against an NCAA Div. I opponent since a January, 2011 game at Columbia.
 
Union took an early 4-0 lead, but it would prove to be the Dutchmen's only lead of the game as a pair of Swopshire three-pointers helped Colgate score nine of the next 12 points to jump ahead 12-7 less than four minutes into the game. Rayman scored the next seven Colgate points, but Union was still within four at 20-16 with 12:11 left on the first-half clock.
 
Back-to-back baskets from Rivard then sparked a 20-8 Colgate streak that took 5:39 off the clock and stretched the Raider lead to 42-24 with 4:12 left in the opening half. The Dutchmen spent the last four minutes of the half on a 13-8 streak to cut into the Colgate advantage, but the Raiders carried a 50-38 lead into the locker room.
 
Union narrowed Colgate's lead to 10 less than three minutes into the second half, but a Swopshire trey and a pair of O'Brien three-pointers brought the Raider advantage back to 17 at 62-45 with 14:36 on the clock.
 
The Raiders continued their hot three-point shooting, draining four treys over the next three minutes as the score read 71-52 at 11:25. The Dutchmen answered with seven-straight points, but Colgate responded with a 12-2 streak over the next four minutes to work its lead to 83-61 with just over five minutes to play.

Union plays at Fairleigh Dickinson Thursday.