2017-18 Rider University Women's Basketball
GAME 13: Saturday, December 30, 2017
Rider Broncs (3-9, 0-1 MAAC) vs. Siena Saints (5-8, 0-1 MAAC)
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ – Alumni Gymnasium (1,650)
Tip: 2:00 pm
Live Video: BroncVision
Live Stats: SideArm Stats
Twitter: @RiderWBB & @RiderAthletics
Listen: 107.7 The Bronc
Tickets: GoBroncTix.com
Notes: Marist

What You Need to Know
- Rider returns to action at home on Saturday, December 30, with a conference tilt against Siena. Both the Saints and the Broncs dropped their league openers. Rider has won two straight against Siena and three of the last four thanks to sweeping the regular season series last season. By Bronc wins came by a combined three points last winter.

- Last time out, the Broncs opened MAAC play with an 80-69 setback against Marist at home. Stella Johnson scored 26 points to go along with six assists, three steals and five rebounds.

- Tomorrow's contest is the third of three straight home tilt to close out the calendar year for the Broncs.

- In 2016-17, the Broncs swept the season series with the Saints in a pair of tightly contested games. Rider won the two games by a combined three steals. In early January in Loudonville, Rider erased a late second-half deficit with nine points in the final 28 seconds to stun Siena, 62-61, on the road. Trailing by one with nine seconds left, Stella Johnson stole the inbounds pass at midcourt and went in for a contested lay-up for the eventual game-winner with four seconds left. Without a timeout, Siena saw their inbounds pass once again stolen by Johnson to seal the thrilling come-from-behind win. One month later, Kamila Hoskova recorded her first career double-double thanks to a 20-point, 11-rebound performance to lead Rider past visiting Siena, 72-70. Hoskova scored six of the final eight Bronc points as Rider held off a late rally Saint rally.

- Siena leads the all-time series, 32-12. The Broncs have the edge of late having won the last two contests between the two teams and three of the last four overall.

- Siena enters the weekend with a 5-7 overall record following a 68-54 setback at Quinnipiac in their conference opener on Thursday. The Saints have dropped two in a row and three of their last four overall. On the road this season, Siena is 2-5 with victories over Colgate (in overtime) and Hofstra. The Saint offensive attack is led by Pre-Season All-MAAC honoree Kollyns Scarbrough. Scarbrough is the lone Siena player to average in double figures, pouring in over 13 points per game. She is also in rebounding (7.2 boards per game) and field-goal percentage (49.6%). Sophomore post Maddie Sims has been a factor in the paint for the Saints, scoring nine points per tilt, grabbing over six rebounds per contest and swatting a team-high 12 shots. Starting point guard Deja Rawls is dishing out over four assists per game, which ranks third in the MAAC. As a team, Siena leads the MAAC with nearly 10 steals per game. The Saints also rank in the top-three in the conference in scoring margin (-4.0), rebounding (37.5) and offensive rebounding (13.6). 

- Sophomore forward Lea Favre has been on fire over her last three games. During that span, she has shot 64 percent (20-of-31) from the field and scored in double figures all three times. She has averaged 16 points and four rebounds per game. Favre has also knocked down all eight of her free throws.

- Sophomore Lexi Stover has been hot from beyond the arc over the last month. In December (a stretch of six games) she is shooting over 45 percent (15-of-33) from three-point range. In the final month of the calendar year, she has hit a three-pointer in all six games and has hit three or more from deep in three of last four games. She leads the Broncs this season with 19 three-pointers made and she's shooting a team-best 38 percent from beyond the arc.

- Stella Johnson continues to stuff the stat sheet night in and night out for Rider. Versus Marist on December 28, she scored a team-high 26 points to go along with six assists, five rebounds and three steals. In the game she had a three-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio.