The Colgate bench cheers after going up by ten points against Syracuse. The Syracuse Orange basketball took on the Colgate Red Raiders at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse N.Y. Nov. 20, 2021.Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com
Syracuse, N.Y. – Matt Langel entered the post-game press conference in shorts and a Colgate sweatshirt.
The clothes he wore to coach his team to a 100-85 win over Syracuse on Saturday had been saturated with the happy spray of water bottles in the Raiders locker room. There, players, coaches, wives of coaches, kids of coaches, the university president – basically anybody with any Colgate clout – crowded into that tiny space and celebrated loudly into the Syracuse night.
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