GAME 6 – Thursday, December 1, 2016
Rider Broncs (3-2, 0-0 MAAC) vs. Fairfield Stags (4-1, 0-0 MAAC)
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ – Alumni Gym
Tip: 7:00 p.m.
What You Need To Know
- Rider and Fairfield are meeting for the 61st time, with the Stags owning a 32-28 lead in the all-time series. Fairfield swept the season series last year, following four-straight Rider victories in the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons.
- Fairfield is 4-1 so far this season with wins over Sacred Heart, Dartmouth, Wagner and Army West Point. The Stags' lone loss came to Loyola Maryland.
- Rider is 3-0 when holding the opposition to fewer than 70 points.
- The Broncs have outrebounded their opponent in all five games.
- Rider started the season 2-0 with wins at Hampton and Hartford. It was just the program's third 2-0 start in the last 42 years (2003-04, 2009-10) and the first since the Broncs defeated Mississippi State and Lehigh to begin the 2009-10 season.
- The MAAC's leader in field-goal percentage as a junior (.565),
Kahlil Thomas is off to an even-more efficient start to this season (.604/29-48). Thomas has two double-doubles on the year, including a 21-point, 14-rebound effort at Fordham.
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Xavier Lundy scored in double figures in each of the Broncs' first four games and reached the mark before halftime in the first three.
- The Broncs were picked to finish seventh in the MAAC by the league's coaches.
Kahlil Thomas was selected to the Preseason All-MAAC Second Team.
- The Broncs are led by fifth-year Head Coach
Kevin Baggett, whose teams have posted a 70-66 record and reached the MAAC Quarterfinals in each of his first four seasons in Lawrenceville. Baggett was the 2015 MAAC Coach of the Year.
