DOVER, DE – Five Rider University men's basketball players scored in double-figures as the Broncs earned an 81-54 road victory at Delaware State Friday night. With the win, the Broncs improve to 2-0, while the Hornets dropped their season opener. Frederick Scott (Munster, IN/Simeon [DePaul]) led Rider with 13 points, while Dimencio Vaughn (New York, NY/Callaway/The Masters School) and Stevie Jordan (Bensalem, PA/Conwell-Egan/API) had 12 points apiece. Christian Ings (Philadelphia, PA/Neumann-Goretti) contributed 11 points, while Tyere Marshall (Philadelphia, PA/Martin Luther King/Putnam Science) narrowly missed a double-double with 10 points and nine rebounds.

Rider scored the first five points of the game and never trailed. The lead reached double-digits on a Jordan lay-up at the 11:35 mark and swelled to as many as 25 just prior to the half on a Tyrel Bladen (Coatesville, PA/Coatesville) ally oop from Allen Powell (Philadelphia, PA/La Salle College H.S.).

Early in the second half, Rider built the lead to as many as 31 on two occasions, before the Rider starters were given the rest of the night off by the 13:28 mark.

Quotes & Notes
"I think part of our mindset tonight was just to make sure that we came out and played in segments. We talked about playing in four-minute segments, coming out, being aggressive, getting stops and setting the tone in the first four minutes of the game. I think our guys did a really good job of doing that."

(On the young reserves getting extended minutes) "We need to get those game experience on the fly. Anytime you have the opportunity to have this type of lead and be able to play those guys as many minutes as we did, it was a good thing for us. We could continue to teach these guys, watch film and show them what they're doing right and wrong." – Rider Head Coach Kevin Baggett

- The win was Rider's first-ever over Delaware State. The Hornets had won the only other two meetings in the series, both in the 1981-82 season.
- Rider is 2-0 for the second time in the last four years (2016-17). The last time a Broncs team started a year with as many as three-consecutive wins was 1971-72, when Rider defeated Glassboro State, Delaware Valley, Scranton and Bucknell consecutively.
- Ings scored his first-career points, as did Bladen and Khalil Turner (Philadelphia, PA/Sankofa Freedom Academy), both of whom were playing in their first collegiate games.
- Rider is in the midst of six-straight games away from home to begin the 2019-20 season. Up next is a Nov. 17 road game at Arizona State, the Broncs' first in the four-game Air Force Reserve Tip-Off Tournament Presented By Citi. Rider then plays another true road game at 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.   

Broncs by the Numbers
- No Rider starter played more than 21 minutes and 32 seconds.
- No Bronc attempted more than eight field goals.
- Rider outshot Delaware State, 51.7 percent (30-58) to 32.3 percent (20-62) from the floor, including a 40.0 percent (8-20) to 20.7 percent (6-29) margin from long range.
- Rider outrebounded Delaware State, 50-29.
- The Broncs took a 42-18 edge in points in the paint and the Rider bench outscored Delaware State's, 34-7.
- The 27-point margin of victory was Rider's largest since a 36-point victory over Hartford (89-53) on Nov. 15, 2017. It was the largest margin of victory in a road win since a 76-45 win at Saint Peter's on Jan. 28, 2016.
- Jordan jumped three spots on Rider's all-time scoring list into a tie for 29^th with Mark Wilcox at 1,136. He passed Dick Kuchen (1,127) and Terrance Mouton (1,131).
- Jordan made three steals for the second-straight game and sits one steal behind both Jerry Johnson and Justin Robinson (152) for fifth all-time at Rider.
- Both Scott and Vaughn made 5-of-8 from the floor. Vaughn made his only three-point attempt, while Scott was 1-of-2.  
- Jordan and Marshall each made 4-of-6 attempts from the floor. Jordan was 2-for-2 from long range and both made both of their free-throw attempts.
- Ajiri Ogemuno-Johnson (Lansdowne, PA/Monsignor Bonner) and Willy Nuñez, Jr. (Orlando, FL/Oak Ridge [Florida International]) both matched their career highs with seven rebounds apiece.