PHILADELPHIA – Tyere Marshall (Philadelphia, PA/Martin Luther King/Putnum Science) and Dimencio Vaughn (New York, NY/Calloway) scored career highs of 23 and 20 points, respectively, but the Rider University men's basketball team fell at Drexel, 89-77, Saturday afternoon at Daskalakis Athletic Center. With the loss, the Broncs slip to 5-3, while the Dragons are now 4-4. Marshall scored 20 of his points on 10-of-11 shooting in the second half, finished 11-of-13 from the floor, and also grabbed a team-high 12 rebounds for his third double-double of the year.
 
Drexel came out firing in the early going, building a lead of 13 points just over seven minutes on Tramaine Isabell's three-pointer. But the Broncs held the Dragons without a field goal over the final 6:30 of the period, made six of their own final seven field-goal attempts and outscored Drexel, 18-6, in that span to take a 41-39 lead into the break. Vaughn led the Broncs with 16 points in the half, while Devine Eke's (Plainsfield, NJ/Union Catholic [Maine]) three-pointer at the buzzer sent the Broncs into halftime with the lead.

The lead exchanged hands three times in the first seven minutes of the second half, before Drexel used an 8-0 run to create separation. The first five points came from the free-throw line before Isabell's three-pointer with 7:35 left made it a 73-63 Drexel lead. Rider would counter with a 9-1 run, including six points inside from Marshall and a Jordan Allen (Dover, DE/Dover) three to whittle the deficit down to two with 3:30 left. But the Dragons responded with an Alihan Demir three and an Isabell lay-up to push it to at least a two-possession game the rest of the way.
 
Quotes & Notes
"We lost this game yesterday, because we didn't practice well. The ultimate respect of your opponent is to practice the right way to prepare for them and we didn't do it. I said to the group yesterday that I wouldn't be very surprised if we lost today. Because this is where you have your youth and they think that they've had a little success and they're just going to show up and everybody is just going to fall down to us. That's disrespect to our opponent that we didn't show up the right way and we couldn't guard the guards."
 
"I thought the two guys who showed up today, obviously one was Tyere. I thought Paxton Wilson did some really good things in the first half. I thought those two guys showed up. Other than that, it was a no show from a lot of guys to be honest."  – Rider Head Coach Kevin Baggett
 
- Rider has now made a field goal in the final seven seconds of the first half in seven of eight games and scored on its final possession of the first half in all eight games this season.
- Drexel extended to a 31-28 lead in the all-time series, snapping two-straight Rider wins.
- The Broncs are now 1-1 when leading at the half.
- Marshall joined Scott with three double-doubles this season a tie for the team lead.

Broncs by the Numbers
-  Frederick Scott (Munster, IN/Simeon [DePaul]) and Allen added 10 points apiece, while Stevie Jordan (Bensalem, PA/Conwell-Egan/API) had nine points and five assists.
- Allen scored in double-digits for the eighth-straight game to open his collegiate career. He was limited to fewer than three three-point field goals for the first time, hitting 2-of-5.
- Marshall established a new career high for the second-straight game. After going for 16 points at Providence on Wednesday to best his previous high of 15, the sophomore center erupted for 20 of his 23 points on 10-of-11 shooting in the second half today. He also made his only free-throw attempt to equal his free throws made (16-of-23) from last season (16-44) in 19 fewer attempts.  
- Drexel outshot Rider, 49.1 percent (28-57) to 47.5 percent (29-61) from the floor, including a 51.7 percent (15-29) to 44.1 percent (15-34) advantage in the second half. The Dragons (86.2 percent, 25-29) attempted 10 more free throws and made 12 more than the Broncs (68.4 percent, 13-19)
- Rider entered the game having scored 50 or more points in the second half in five of seven games, but scored 36 today, one more than their season low (35 at George Washington, Nov. 20).
- Rider finished with 15 assists and 10 turnovers, marking the seventh time in eight games that the Broncs have had more assists than turnovers. For the season, Rider now has 118 assists and just 94 turnovers for a 1.26 team assist-to-turnover ratio.