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Ken McMillan|Times Herald-Record

A little knowledge can be a bad thing.

Thats how Army mens basketball coach Jimmy Allen is feeling after Colgate used a bit of scouting of his team to throw off his ball club while torching the Black Knights on the offensive end. The Raiders shot lights out in the early going, stormed to a 23-point halftime lead and rolled to a 101-57 victory in Hamilton in the Patriot League opener for both teams on Saturday.

I give them a lot of credit, said Allen, whose team fell to 4-2. They didnt play any games first semester and they looked like a bunch of guys that were starving to play, and we did not respond.

Colgate (1-0) blazed the way with 65.1 percent shooting (41-for-63) and sank 12 3-pointers. The Raiders outscored Army 52-22 in the paint.

Nelly Cummings lit up Army with 24 points, Jordan Burns had 20, Tucker Richardson 13, Keegan Records 12 and Jack Ferguson 10.

Not a single Army player out of 15 who saw action scored in double figures. Lonnie Grayson scored nine, Charlie Peterson and Tucker Blackwell netted seven and Jalen Rucker and Alex King each had six.

They were prepared for some of the things that we do on offense and defense and there were some things that they did differently that we were we weren't prepared for, Allen said. We knew that coming into the basketball game. We knew we would have to respond much, much better than we did and that's the frustrating part.

Army shot just 35 percent (21-for-60), and hit only six of 22 attempts beyond the arc. The silver lining is the Black Knights only had 11 turnovers.

We were poor at both ends of the floor, Allen said. I thought offensively one of the things we do well is we share the ball really well. I thought today we were poor at sharing the ball. I thought we took some shots that we don't count as very good shots.

The teams meet again at 3 p.m. Sunday in Hamilton.

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