EUGENE, OR – Five Broncs finished in double figures, led by Dimencio Vaughn (New York, NY/Calloway) with 25, but the sixth-seeded Rider University men's basketball team fell at No. 3 Oregon, 99-86, Tuesday night at Matthew Knight Arena. With the loss, the Broncs wrap up their season at 22-10. Oregon (23-12) moves on to face the winner of tomorrow night's Marquette/Harvard First Round game.

Rider led for the majority of the first 30 minutes, including leads after the first, second and third quarters. But Oregon made its first 10 shots of the fourth quarter and 11-of-12 in the period to surge to the victory.

Tyere Marshall (Philadelphia, PA/Martin Luther King/Putnam Science) added 18 points and a team-high eight rebounds, while Jordan Allen (Dover, DE/Dover) chipped in with 17 points. Frederick Scott (Munster, IN/Simeon [DePaul]) scored 16, while Stevie Jordan (Bensalem, PA/Conwell-Egan/API) finished with an even 10 points to go along with a team-high six assists.
 
Quotes & Notes
"First and foremost, I'm just proud of our guys. I'm proud of the way that they battled and competed all year long. I love these guys. We've got a lot to build on. I'm excited about it. We talked about it in the locker room. The sky's the limit for this group. I challenged them, each and every one of them, to get better, get better in the offseason, get stronger in the offseason, come back even better. Their coach is saying, 'you're going to win a lot of games.' I don't want to win a lot of games – I want to win championships. And that's what I told these guys in the locker room. We're going to do that."

"We're not going to make excuses. We needed to guard. We needed, when the game was on the line, to take care of the ball a little better and we just didn't do it. But again, we've got a lot to build on. We are young. I'm excited with this group."

"It was a good game. I thought there were some calls out there that could've gone either way. But, all in all, we battled." – Rider Head Coach Kevin Baggett

- The meeting was the first in the histories of Oregon and Rider.
- Rider is now 0-2 in NIT play, with a 1998 loss at Penn State.
- The Broncs' 22 wins are the second-most in program history behind a pair of 23-win seasons (2007-08 and 2010-11).  

Broncs by the Numbers
- Rider shot 54.3 percent (19-35) in the first half.
- Rider led by as many as 10 points, 28-18, in the first half and extended the lead to 12 two minutes into the second half.
- Oregon made 20-of-26 field-goal attempts in the second half and finished at 58.9 percent (33-56) for the game.
- Rider outscored Oregon, 50-34, in the paint.
- The Ducks' bench outscored Rider's, 37-16.
- Oregon made 14-of-26 three-point field-goal attempts.