The 2022 NCAA Tournament features plenty of well-known, blue-blood programs with which even casual basketball fans will be familiar. From Duke to Gonzaga to Kentucky to Indiana, there are always plenty of historic programs in March Madness.
That said, the lower-seeded teams and mid-major tournament winners aren’t always as well-known even to die-hard college basketball fans. There are always new teams to learn about, and the ones on the 16-seed lines are often the most unfamiliar of the bunch.
Take Wright State, for instance. They got a bit more air time than usual because they were involved in the First Four for 2022. They knocked off Bryant University to earn their first NCAA Tournament win ever and now will look to pull off an unthinkable upset over Arizona.
Fans of the sport probably have some questions about Wright State. Where is it located? What league do they play in? How good are they? Here’s everything to know about the school as they look to earn the second 16-over-1-seed upset in NCAA Tournament history.
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Where is Colgate located?
Colgate University is located in central New York in a village called Hamilton. It is just about an hour southeast of Syracuse and is about two hours west of Albany. Ironically, Colgate is located in Hamilton while Hamilton College is located in Clinton, another village 19 miles north of Colgate.
How big is Colgate?
As of the Fall of 2021, Colgate has an enrollment of 3,233 students, per its official website. It offers 56 different undergraduate programs as well.
Colgate’s campus is 553 acres in size.
What is Colgate’s mascot?
Colgate athletes wear maroon and white and play as the Raiders. They formerly were known as the Red Raiders and had a Native American mascot, but they elected to shorten the name in 2001.
In 2006, the school introduced its new mascot, Raider, who is a revolutionary war-era Minuteman and wears a Colgate jersey.
Colgate’s mascot is terrifying pic.twitter.com/32sgwDus4j
— Louis Fernandez Jr (@LouFernandezJr) March 22, 2019
What league does Colgate play in?
Colgate currently plays in the Patriot League and has since the end of the 1989-90 season. They previously played in the North Atlantic Conference — also known as the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference — for 11 years. And before the 1980-81 season, Colgate was an Independent program.
The Raiders have won their conference championship five times in school history. All have come while playing in the Patriot League.
Three of Colgate’s Patriot League championships have come since 2019. The lone year they didn’t win their conference tournament since then came in 2020, when the NCAA postseason tournaments were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Who is Colgate’s coach?
Matt Langel is currently Colgate’s head coach. He is in his 11th season with the Raiders and has led them to three Patriot League titles.
Before becoming the head coach at Colgate, Langel was an assistant under Fran Dunphy at both Penn and Temple. He spent the 2004 through 2006 seasons at Penn, his alma mater, before following Dunphy to Temple in 2006. He left Temple in 2011 to become the Raiders’ head coach.
Langel played collegiately at Penn and was a prolific shooter. He made 201 3-point shots during his career, good for the 31st-most in Ivy League history. His teams at Colgate have relied heavily on the 3-point shot to compete.
Below is a year-by-year breakdown of Langel’s performance at Colgate.
| Year | Record | Patriot League finish |
| 2011-12 | 8-22 | 7th |
| 2012-13 | 11-21 | 5th |
| 2013-14 | 13-18 | 7th |
| 2014-15 | 16-17 | 2nd |
| 2015-16 | 13-17 | T-4th |
| 2016-17 | 10-22 | T-6th |
| 2017-18 | 19-14 | 2nd |
| 2018-19 | 24-11 | T-1st* |
| 2019-20 | 25-9 | 1st* |
| 2020-21 | 14-2 | 1st |
| 2021-21 | 23-11 | 1st* |
*Won Patriot League Tournament.
Colgate 2021-22 season rundown
- 2021-22 record: 23-11 (16-2 Patriot play)
- NET ranking: 128
- KenPom ranking: 119
Colgate started the season slowly, as they came out of the gate going 4-10 in their first 14 games. They played plenty of tough competition, including Power 5 teams like NC State, Syracuse and Pitt while also facing the likes of Cornell, Harvard, St. John’s and Vermont.
However, after losing its first game in Patriot league play to Lehigh, Colgate was nearly unbeatable. It went 19-1 over their final 20 games of the season and won 15 in a row to cruise into the NCAA Tournament. The Raiders were the No. 1 seed in the Patriot League tournament and cruised to victory in each of their three games, winning by an average of 22 points per game.
Colgate relied on a balanced offensive attack to get to the March Madness tournament. They have five players that average at least 10 points per game and shoot 40.3 percent from 3-point range, which ranks second-best in the NCAA. Nelly Cummings leads the team in scoring, averaging 14.5 points per game.
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Colgate NCAA Tournament history
Colgate has made the NCAA Tournament five times in its history. They have never been seeded higher than 14 and have never won a game to date.
The Raiders have made the March Madness tournament in each of the last three years that it was held. Below is a full recap of their NCAA Tournament history:
| Year | Round | Result |
| 1995 | Round 1 | 82-68 loss vs. Kansas |
| 1996 | Round 1 | 68-59 loss vs. UConn |
| 2019 | Round 1 | 77-70 loss vs. Tennessee |
| 2021 | Round 1 | 85-68 loss vs. Arkansas |
| 2022 | Round 1 | TBD |