HAMILTON, N.Y. – Junior forward
Thomas Batties II scored a game and season-high 22 points, and senior guard
Chandler Piggé and sophomore guard
Tey Barbour each netted 18 points as Harvard Men's Basketball beat Colgate University, 78-69, on Sunday afternoon at Cotterell Court in its non-league finale.
Playing in its final game of the 2025 calendar year, the Crimson (7-7) took a 52-50 lead – which it did not relinquish – with 12:02 remaining, holding off multiple comeback attempts from the Raiders (6-7), including closing the game on a 9-2 run after the hosts pulled within 69-67 with 2:49 to go.
Batties II scored his season-high 22 points on 8-of-14 field goals, 3-of-6 3-pointers, and 3-of-3 free throws alongside a game-best seven rebounds and team-high three steals. Piggé netted his 18 points on 8-of-15 field goals and 2-of-4 3-pointers, and Barbour matched his career high with his 18 points, hitting 7-of-10 field goals and 4-of-6 3-pointers.
As a team, Harvard hit a season-high 13 3-pointers and shot a season-best 54.2 percent (13-of-24) from behind the arc.
Harvard Highlights
- Junior forward Thomas Batties II scored a season and game-high 22 points on 8-of-14 field goals, 3-of-6 3-pointers, and 3-of-3 free throws alongside a game-best seven rebounds and team-high three steals. He finished in double figures for the ninth time this season and eclipsed the 20-point plateau for the first time on the year and third time in his career.
- Senior guard Chandler Piggé netted 18 points on 8-of-15 field goals and 2-of-4 3-pointers to go with four rebounds, a team-high three assists, and two steals. He scored in double figures for the 11th time in 14 games on the year.
- Sophomore guard Tey Barbour matched his career high with 18 points, connecting on 7-of-10 field goals and 4-of-6 3-pointers and grabbing four rebounds. He scored 18 points for the second time in his last three games after also netting 18 vs. Holy Cross on Dec. 20. Barbour has notched 10 double-figure scoring efforts on the season.
- Sophomore guard Robert Hinton added nine points and two assists, sophomore guard Austin Hunt contributed eight points on 2-of-2 3-pointers and 2-of-2 free throws, six rebounds, two assists, and two steals, and sophomore guard Ben Eisendrath distributed three assists.
- Harvard hit a season-high 13 3-pointers in the game and shot a season-best 54.2 percent (13-of-24) from downtown. In the second half, the Crimson canned 6-of-9 triples (66.7 percent) and hit 18-of-30 field goals overall (60.0 percent).
- The Crimson outscored the Raiders in points off turnovers, 22-11.
Gallery: (12-28-2025) Men's Basketball at Colgate
How It Happened
- The Crimson opened the game with an 11-8 lead at the 15:16 mark of the first half as Hinton, Piggé, and Barbour all hit 3-pointers in the opening stretch before the Raiders used a 10-0 run to move ahead 18-11 with 10:12 left in the opening half.
- Harvard countered with 12 consecutive points to re-gain a 23-18 advantage with 6:33 to go in the half. Batties II scored eight points on the run, including converting an old-fashioned 3-point play and hitting a 3-pointer.
- The Crimson pushed its lead to as large as 10 points at 36-26 with 2:24 to play until halftime with Barbour connecting on a pair of 3-pointers for Harvard's final six points during that span. The visitors remained ahead 36-33 at the break.
- After Colgate took a 50-45 lead with 14:11 remaining, Harvard answered with a 7-0 spurt in 1:28 as Batties II hit a 3-pointer before Barbour and Piggé each made driving layups to give the Crimson back a lead at 52-50 with 12:02 to go.
- The Crimson stymied multiple comeback attempts from the Raiders, including with a 3-pointer from Hunt that kept Harvard in front 57-53 with 9:53 left and a 3-pointer from junior guard Xavier Nesbitt that made the margin 62-57 with 7:34 to play.
- A 3-pointer from Batties II and a layup from Piggé allowed Harvard to extend its lead to 69-61 with 5:13 to go.
- After Colgate whittled the difference to 69-67 with 2:49 remaining, the Crimson closed the game on a 9-2 run behind a 3-pointer from Hunt, a pair of driving layups from Piggé, and a dunk from Batties II.
Postgame Quotes
- "I thought it was an incredibly hard-fought game – competitive by both teams. Both teams were playing their last non-conference game prior to league play. They start this week, and we start next week. You can see how the intensity and competitiveness is going to – we think – follow through in league play." – Tommy Amaker, The Thomas G. Stemberg '71 Family Endowed Coach for Harvard Men's Basketball
- "I was really pleased with our guys fighting and clawing. We shot well percentage wise, which was very helpful for us. We got great efforts by a lot of different people. We need those kinds of performances on the road." – Coach Amaker
- "It felt great. Coming off the holidays, it's nice. It's a nice time to reset and recalibrate. I think we did a good job of coming in and focusing. There's a lot of travel issues and all that, but we did a good job of refocusing, regrouping, playing through all the struggles, playing through the mistakes, and just stayed glued together. We stayed together." – Junior forward Thomas Batties II
- "I think it was just having the game be a full team effort. I think everybody pitched in, doing their roles. Everybody was playing a role, being aggressive. When you do that, when you're as connected and together as we played today, there's not a lot of stuff we can't accomplish." – Batties II
Next Up
Harvard hosts Dartmouth on Monday, Jan. 5 at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+) at Lavietes Pavilion in its Ivy League opener.
