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It's Colgate vs. Rutgers in NCAA Thursday

Tue, Nov 15, 2011

The Colgate men's soccer team watched the announcement of their NCAA tournament placement at Rusch's. They face Rutgers Thursday. (Photo by Bob Cornell)

It's Colgate vs. Rutgers in NCAA Thursday

The Colgate men's soccer team will play Rutgers in the first round of the 2011 NCAA men's soccer tournament Thursday at 7 p.m. in Piscataway, N.J. The Raiders will look to make program history with their first NCAA Tournament win Thursday.

The winner will play at Boston College on Sunday.

The Raiders, who will be making their sixth appearance in the NCAA Tournament, clinched a spot after defeating American 2-0 on Sunday to win the 2011 Patriot League Championship in Washington, D.C. Colgate will be one of the 48 teams to participate in the tournament, winning one of the 22 automatic bids.

Rutgers earned an at-large bid to the tournament after falling to Connecticut, 3-1, in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament Nov. 6. The Scarlet Knights are 9-6-3 overall record and went 6-1-2 in the league.

This will be the ninth meeting between the two teams, with Colgate holding a 6-2 advantage in the all-time series since the teams first met in 1963. The Raiders have won two of the three meetings at Rutgers and have won the last five meetings in the overall series. Colgate's most recent win was a 5-1 win over the Scarlet Knights in 1971 in Hamilton.
 
The Raiders also made NCAA appearances in 1959, 1966, 1997, 2007, and most recently in 2008.

Source: Colgate

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