GAME 15 – Sunday, January 8, 2017
Rider Broncs (10-4, 4-1 MAAC) at Siena Saints (3-11, 2-3 MAAC)
Location: Loudonville, NY – Alumni Recreation Center
Tip: 2:00 p.m.
What You Need To Know
- Rider and Siena are meeting for the 43rd time, with the Saints owning a 32-10 lead. The two teams last met in an opening-round MAAC Championship thriller that Siena took in overtime, 79-76. The two teams split the regular-season series.
- Rider opened the game on a 12-0 run and never trailed at Manhattan, earning its fifth wire-to-wire win of the season.
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Kamila Hoskova has scored 45 points in the last two games and leads the MAAC in three-point field-goal percentage (.447).
- The Broncs used a program-record 24-0 run spanning nearly 10 minutes to turn a three-point game vs. Iona into a no doubter.
- Rider shot a season-high 58.2 percent and scored 85 points on Jan. 2 against Iona, which entered the game leading the MAAC in scoring defense (58.8).
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Robin Perkins scored a career-high 33 points, including the 1,000th of her collegiate career, against Quinnipiac on Dec. 30. She now stands just 14 points shy of 1,000 for her Rider career.
- Rider is 6-2 on the road this season.
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Stella Johnson was named USBWA Freshman of the Week, MAAC Rookie of the Week and College Sports Madness MAAC Player of the Week for her 24-point, 9-rebound, 5-steal, 4-assists performance in a win over St. Francis Brooklyn.
- Rider is 10-0 when it's led at halftime.
- Rider ranks first in the MAAC in field-goal percentage (.439) and second in scoring offense (69.6), scoring margin (+5.2), field-goal percentage defense (.388), three-point field-goal percentage defense (.275), steals per game (9.7) and turnover margin (+0.7).
