Pitarresi: Three local teams left standing

 

I’m just about sure we’ve never had more local college teams make the post-season than we had this year.

 

Hockey, basketball … our schools were all over the map in league playoffs.

 

And, wouldn’t you know it, very quickly, just three are left: SUNYIT men’s basketball, Colgate men’s basketball, and Colgate men’s hockey, which opens the ECAC Hockey playoffs Friday.

 

Congratulations to SUNYIT for its first-ever NCAA Division III tourney berth. The Wildcats are not big, but they are fast, they shoot well, and they compete hard.

 

The Colgate basketball team has had a tough year, but they knocked off Navy tonight, and will advance to the Patriot League semifinals at Holy Cross Sunday. Great stuff.

 

And the Raider hockey team, which has played 16 overtime games this season, has gotten hot at the right time. They’ll open a best-of-three-game series at Quinnipiac Friday.

 

Good luck to all the teams.