LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ - The Rider University women's basketball team begins the 2016-17 season with its shortest road trip of the year, traveling eight miles up Route 206 to take on Mercer County rival Princeton University on Friday at 7 p.m. in Jadwin Gymnasium. Rider and Princeton last met on November 24, 2015, when the Tigers won, 78-59, in Lawrenceville. Princeton leads the all-time series, 24-8, and has won eight in a row over the Broncs. 

Rider finished the 2015-16 season 8-22, 5-15 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and in a ninth place tie with Niagara University. Princeton was 23-6, 12-2 in the Ivy (2nd) and the Tigers lost in the NCAA First Round to West Virginia 74-65.

Rider played in the First Round of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament against #7 seed Siena College, losing 79-76 in overtime despite 26 points from sophomore Kamila Hoskova. Rider was led last year by Robin Perkins, an All-MAAC Second Team pick in 2015-16 and a 2016-17 Preseason All-MAAC Second Team selection for the second season in a row. Perkins finished the 2015-16 season third in the MAAC averaging 15.2 points per game.

The Broncs have been led on the boards by current senior Julia Duggan who enters the season 14th on Rider's all-time rebounding list with 552. As a junior, Duggan started all 30 games and was eighth in the MAAC, averaging 7.0 rebounds per game.