Buffalo, NY (11/15/11)-It was a high scoring season opening game for the D'Youville College men's basketball team. The Spartans scored 93 points in their first contest of the 2011-12 season but yielded 141 and were defeated at Buffalo State.

Raysean Johnson (Buffalo, NY/Grover Cleveland) scored a game-high 25 points, followed by Jeff Curry (Buffalo, NY/Lafayette) with 19 points, and Kevin Ford (Buffalo, NY/Amherst) added 16 points off the bench for D'Youville.

The next game for D'Youville is Friday (November 18) versus Willamette College in the first-round of the Calvin College (MI) Tip-Off Tournament. Start time is 5:30 p.m.