Colgate is led by a pair of sophomore forwards. Pat Campolieta is the team's leading score with 14.9 points per game. Jordan Harris is Colgate's best all-around player, scoring 14.7 while also grabbing eight rebounds per game.
Beyond those two, however, the Red Raiders don't boast much. Captain Pat Diamond is the only senior on the team, and second-year Coach Emmett Davis's roster contains seven sophomores and six freshmen.
Harvard should be able to capitalize on the lack of experience if it returns to the form it displayed two weeks ago, when it was winning. In the last three games, overall shooting has suffered, while defense and rebounding have been almost non-existent at times.
"We are definitely not going to shoot like we did that night [against B.U.]" sophomore guard Drew Gellert said. "We have definitely got to stop that."
The offensive inconsistency of starting slow and picking up later has largely been a byproduct of the play of Clemente. While he is the team's leading scorer and best offensive threat, often he has been lost in the early going in Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan's offense. It's hard to get going when the ball isn't coming his way or when he isn't hitting his shots.
Harvard has also started freshman point guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman in the last two games and grown increasingly dependent on his ball-handling abilities. A mixture of flash and intensity, Prasse-Freeman has shown the ability to make amazing passes. But he also has shown a tendency to keep his dribble too long and make passes his teammates aren't ready for. He's scored 31 points and dished 13 assists in his two starts.
With a new point guard and the lack of a solid go-to player, the Harvard team has also looked confused out on the floor at times in the late going.
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