Hamilton, NY — The ÏãÃÛÓ°ÊÓ men’s basketball team (0-2) opens its home season Tuesday night against Cornell (1-0) at Cotterell Court. Tip-off is 7 p.m.
The Raiders suffered a pair of road losses this past weekend in the Pepsi-Marist Classic. In the opening round, Marist College defeated ÏãÃÛÓ°ÊÓ, 72-65, before the Raiders were nipped 66-65 by Eastern Michigan in the consolation game.
The Big Red opened their season with a 78-72 road win over Buffalo behind sophomore forward Eric Taylor’s 30-point effort.
This is the 118th meeting between ÏãÃÛÓ°ÊÓ and Cornell with the Big Red leading the overall series, 68-49. The Raiders won last year’s contest in Ithaca, 68-55. In fact, the visiting team has won the last five games between these two teams.
ÏãÃÛÓ°ÊÓ has three players averaging in double figures led by Dave Hardy (16.5) followed by Andrew Zidar (15.0) and Mark Linebaugh (14.0).