Women's Basketball
Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 2:00 pm
Rider Broncs (4-5) at Bucknell Bison (7-2)
Location: Lewisburg, PA – Sojka Pavilion
Tip: 2:00 pm
Live Stats: BucknellBison.com
Live Video: Patriot League Network
Live Audio: 107.7 The Bronc
Twitter: @RiderWBB
Complete Game Notes: Bucknell

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- All regular-season home games in 2018-19 will be carried on either ESPN3 or ESPN+. Road games only will be carried on 107.7 The Bronc. No radio broadcasts for home games will be provided. Jeff Nolan has the call on Saturday as Rider squares off with Bucknell.

- Rider and Bucknell are playing for the 25th time in the series history. The teams are playing for the second year in a row and just the second time since the 2011-12 season. The Bison lead the all-time series, 15-9, with the first meeting coming during the 1980-81 season.

- The Bison enter Saturday afternoon's contest with a 7-2 mark after an 81-43 thumping of Iona on December 2. The tilt with the Broncs will be the first for Bucknell in nearly two weeks. The Bison are 2-0 at home this year and in the midst of a five-game winning streak. Bucknell is 4-0 against teams from the MAAC this season with all four victories, including a 75-58 beat down of MAAC preseason favorite Quinnipiac, coming by double digits. The Bison have trotted out the same starting five in all nine of their contests this season. It is a balanced attack for Bucknell will all five starters averaging over seven points per tilt, led by Kaitlyn Slagus with over 13 points and nearly eight rebounds per contest. As a team, Bucknell is shooting an impressive 45.8 percent from the field and over 38 percent from three-point range. The Bison have a +1.0 turnover margin and are recording over nine steals per contest. Bucknell is currently ranked No. 10 in the CollegeInsider Mid-Major Top-25.

-  Last time out, the Broncs used a 14-0 run from the end of the third quarter through the start of the fourth quarter to rally to defeat Binghamton, 62-57, last Saturday in non-conference in Vestal, New York. In the victory, junior Stella Johnson scored a game-high 21 points to go along with nine steals, while senior point guard Lexi Posset poured in a season-high 19 points. The Broncs forced 28 turnovers in the win and registered 18 steals.

- Junior Stella Johnson became the 23rd player in Rider women's basketball history to score 1,000 career points. With a three-point play early in the fourth quarter at Binghamton, she became the fourth Bronc in the last three years to reach the milestone. Stella was also the first junior to record her 1,000th career point for Rider since MyNeshia McKenzie did so during the 2012-13 season.

- Stella Johnson set another program record on Saturday at Binghamton. She recorded nine steals to set a new single-game program record. She broke her own record of eight steals in a game which she recorded in her second career game. She had five steals in the first half and her record-breaking theft came as time expired in the contest as she stole the inbounds pass by the Bearcats.

- Rider currently leads the MAAC in blocks per game with 3.78 swatted shots per contest. The team also ranks second in the league in scoring offense (69.2), field-goal percentage (39.6), turnover margin (+3.2), assist-to-turnover ratio (0.95) and second in assists per game (13.3 APG). The Broncs are third in the conference in both steals per game (9.56) and made three-point field goals per game (6.2).

- Senior point guard Lexi Posset hit a half-court, buzzer-beating three-pointer to end the third quarter at Binghamton. The shot gave the Broncs a 48-47 edge at the time and Rider would not trail again in the contest. Posset's bucket was featured on ESPNW's Top 10 Plays of the Week (It was play No. 5!) and helped the Broncs end the third frame on a 7-0 run.

- Since returning from injury on December 2, Posset has scored in double figures in back-to-back games. With Posset running the offense, the Broncs have averaged 61 points per game and dished out 13 assists per game. Last time out, she scored a season-high 19 points to go along with three assists and a career-high five steals. Against Binghamton, Posset hit all four of her free-throw attempts and buried 3-of-5 shots from three-point range.

- Rider forced a season-high 28 turnovers in the win against Binghamton. It marked the most turnovers for the Broncs since forcing 28 in the season opener against Bucknell last season. Rider has forced their opponents to commit over 25 turnovers in two of their last three games. Rider has won both games this season in which they've forced over 20 turnovers. The tilt with Binghamton marked the third time this season that Rider has made less turnovers than their opponent. The Broncs have won all three of those games.

- Rider had a season-high 18 steals in the win against Binghamton. Stella Johnson set a single-game program record with nine steals and Lexi Posset had a career-high five thefts in the triumph. It marked the most steals for Rider since the team had 18 in the regular-season opener last season versus Bucknell. The Broncs have registered 10 or more steals in a game four times this season and the team is 3-1 in those games.