LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ – Frederick Scott (Munster, IN/Simeon [DePaul]) led the Broncs with 18 points and 10 rebounds as the Rider University men's basketball team defeated Slippery Rock, 90-59, in an exhibition contest Saturday evening at Alumni Gymnasium. The game was a final tune-up for the Broncs, who open the regular season Tuesday night at Coppin State.

After a back-and-forth first four minutes of the first half that saw The Rock take its only lead of the game, 10-9, Dimencio Vaughn (New York, NY/Callaway/The Masters School) scored a lay-up off a Stevie Jordan (Bensalem, PA/Conwell-Egan/API) assist at the 15:52 mark of the first half to spark a 17-0 run and give the Broncs the lead for good.

The Rider lead swelled to 30 points on three different occasions in the final eight minutes of the second half before Allen Powell's (Philadelphia, PA/La Salle College H.S.) free throw with 42 seconds remaining gave Rider the final 31-point margin of victory.  

Quotes & Notes
"Exhibition game was much better than last year. I thought Slippery Rock, give them credit – I think they're going to be good. They've got some scorers, they play hard, they run some good stuff. So give those guys credit. I thought our guys showed up ready to go. Better second half than the first half. Shared the ball. It's just the start, it's an exhibition. But we're headed in the right direction." – Rider Head Coach Kevin Baggett

- All 11 Broncs who suited up made at least one field goal.
- Rider will begin the regular season with six-straight games away from home, beginning with consecutive games against MEAC schools Coppin State (Nov. 5) and Delaware State (Nov. 8), before playing four games in the Air Force Reserve Tip-Off Tournament Presented By Citi. The Broncs play true road games at Arizona State (Nov. 17) and Massachusetts (Nov. 20), before playing neutral-court contests at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT, against Columbia (Nov. 23) and either Central Connecticut or Vermont (Nov. 24).
- Rider's home opener comes Dec. 3 against Bucknell.   
- Jared Armstrong led Slippery Rock with 23 points on 9-of-19 from the floor, including 5-of-7 from long range.
 
Broncs by the Numbers
- Scott and Tyere Marshall (Philadelphia, PA/Martin Luther King/Putnam Science) each grabbed 10 rebounds. Marshall narrowly missed a double-double with nine points in 21 minutes.
- Vaughn made 5-of-7 attempts from the floor, including all five attempts from inside the three-point arc.
- Jordan finished with a team-high seven assists, while the Broncs committed just seven turnovers for the game.
- Tyrel Bladen (Coatesville, PA/Coatesville) blocked a team-high two shots in his Rider debut after redshirting his true freshman year.  
- The Broncs outshot The Rock, 54.0 percent (34-63) to 33.9 percent (21-62) from the floor and took a 44-40 edge on the glass.