BOSTON, Mass.—The Skidmore College men's basketball team lost to Wesleyan University 75-60 in the first round of the 40^th Emmanuel College Tip-Off Tournament Friday night. The Thoroughbreds will play the host school on Saturday at 6 p.m. Emmanuel lost 80-72 to Endicott College. The Thoroughbreds are 1-2, while the Cardinals are 3-0.

• Charlie Fantom scored a team-high 23 points to lead Skidmore. Nick Padilla added 10 points, while Joe Skoric had a team-high eight rebounds. Jack LaGarde had five blocks to go along with seven points and six rebounds.
• Wesleyan closed the first half with a 10-4 run to lead 35-25 at the break. The Cardinals led by as many as 22 in the second half, before Skidmore whittled the deficit to 14, before the 75-60 final.
• Coach Joe Burke: "Really happy about how hard we competed tonight. Obviously, we're disappointed in the result because we expect to win every game but that's an NCAA tournament team that's going to win a lot of basketball games this year. They have a great program with really good players and our young group now knows where the bar is set.  We had moments where we went toe to toe with then and we're learning that we have to just do that for 40 minutes. Excited for this group to get back out there tomorrow."
• This will be the first meeting between Skidmore and Emmanuel.