GAME 17 - Saturday, January 19, 2019
Rider Broncs (9-7, 4-0 MAAC) vs. Manhattan Jaspers (4-13, 2-3 MAAC)
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ – Alumni Gymnasium
Tip: 7 p.m.
Tickets – GoBroncsTix.com
Live Video – ESPN3
Live Stats – GoBroncs.com
Live Audio – None
Twitter – Twitter.com/RiderMBB

What You Need To Know
- Rider and Manhattan are meeting for the 53rd time, with the Broncs leading the all-time series, 29-23. Rider has won the last four meetings.
- Rider is 4-0 in MAAC play for the second time in 22 years in the league. The only other instance came in 2000-01, when the Broncs won their first six. 
- The Broncs compiled season highs in points (104), points in a single half (68), field-goal percentage (.612), and single-half field-goal percentage (.737), Jan. 13 at Niagara. Six Broncs scored in double figures for the first time since Feb. 2011.  
- The Broncs (4-0 MAAC) have been outscored by 23 points combined in the first halves of four MAAC games. By comparison, Rider is +58 in the second halves.  
- Tyere Marshall posted his first double-double of the year Jan. 13 at Niagara with a season-high 22 points and 14 rebounds.
- Frederick Scott has a pair of double-doubles and is averaging a team-high 15.0 points to go along with 7.8 rebounds and 60.0 percent in four league games.
- After averaging a 12.5 points per game advantage in the paint against MAAC opponents last year, the Broncs have opened 2018-19 at +20.5 per game.
- Rider ranks 11th nationally at 9.1 steals per game. 
- Stevie Jordan now ranks 6th all-time in assists at Rider with 409. He's also closing in on 1,000 career points, currently standing at 902. 
- Rider has shot over 50 percent four times this season, including the last two.  
- The Jaspers won last time out at Saint Peter's on a last-second three-pointer.
- Pauly Paulicap leads Manhattan at 8.5 points per game, while Warren Williams has added 8.1 points per game. Thomas Capuano (7.0 ppg.) and Nehemiah Mack (6.7 ppg., 2.8 apg.) have also made strong contributions. Ebube Ebube is the Jaspers' leading rebounder at 5.1 boards per game.   
- Rider was picked to win the MAAC after earning the 2017-18 MAAC Regular Season Championship.
- The Broncs returned all five starters, their top six scorers and 95 percent of their scoring from last year's team.
- Seventh-year Head Coach Kevin Baggett's teams have posted a 116-96 record. Baggett won MAAC Coach of the Year in 2015 and 2018.