Women's College Basketball
Rider Home Opener Saturday
LAWRENCEVILLE—The Rider University women's basketball team kicks off the 2015-16 regular season when the Broncs host Towson University in Alumni Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon.
Tip-off is scheduled for 2pm.
Rider returns its leading scorer from last season, junior Robin Perkins, who averaged 10.8 points per game. Perkins is a Preseason All-MAAC Second Team honoree coming into the year.
Also returning for the Broncs is the second leading rebounder, junior Julia Duggan who averaged 6.9 rebounds per game in 2014-15 while contributing 7.6 points per contest in 29 games.
Senior Manon Pellet, a 90-game veteran, is entering her final season in Lawrenceville and her 238 assists already rank 14th on Rider's all-time list.
Rider is coming off an 11-20 campaign (8-12 MAAC) and Towson was 11-21, 6-12 in the CAA last season.
Towson and Rider met last season in Rider's second game of the season (Preseason WNIT) with the Tigers winning 53-51, despite a career-high 26 points from Duggan on November 21, 2014 at SECU Arena. Duggan also had 11 rebounds, three assists, two steals and a block in 30 minutes of play. Duggan forced a 51-51 tie with 1:13 left before Towson won the game with 28 seconds left.
After the game Saturday, Rider hits the road for two straight games, at St. Francis Brooklyn on November 18 and at Maryland Baltimore County on November 21.
The Broncs return home November 24 at 7pm when Rider hosts cross-town rival and national power Princeton University.
On Saturday, fans will have a chance to embrace the rule changes for women's basketball this season which include;
Four quarters, 10:00 in length; each team getting one full time out and three 30 second timeouts; the media timeout at or below the 5:00 mark of each quarter will last 2:45 and the fifth team foul and beyond in each quarter is now two free throws with no more one and one foul shots.
Tickets for all home games are available via the TicketLeap link in the related links section of this page on GoBroncs.com.
If you can't make the game, all non-televised home games can be seen in high definition on BroncVision and MAAC.TV as part of Rider's pay per view service powered by GoBroncs.com.
The audio will be simulcast on the video stream with Jeff Nolan and Dick Wiseman bringing you all of the action. The games can also be heard on 107.7 FM The Bronc and on 1077thebronc.com via links provided on GoBroncs.com.
GameViewer (LiveStats) will also be available, free of charge via the link on GoBroncs.com and live tweets will be sent out which you can follow via twitter @RiderAthletics.
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