GAME 10 - Saturday, December 21, 2019
Rider University Broncs (7-2) vs. Temple Owls (7-3)
Location: Philadelphia, PA – Liacouras Center
Tip: 1 p.m.
Live Video – ESPN3
Live Stats – OwlSports.com
Live Audio – 107.7 The Bronc
Twitter – Twitter.com/RiderMBB
 
What You Need To Know
- Rider has won five straight over Columbia, Vermont, Bucknell, LIU and Marist.
- At 7-2, Rider is off to its best nine-game start since going 8-1 to begin 1997-98.
- Rider opened MAAC play with a 74-64 win over Marist on Monday. 
 - Temple lost a 78-77 heartbreaker to Miami, Tuesday in Brooklyn. The Owls are 3-1 this season at home, with wins over Drexel, Morgan State and Saint Joseph's.  The lone loss came to Missouri.
- Quinton Rose leads Temple at 14.6 points and 3.6 assists per game, while Nate Pierre-Louis has posted 12.1 points and a team-best 9.1 rebounds and 2.3 steals  per game. Alani Moore II also averages in double figures at 10.1 points per game.
- The Broncs and Owls are meeting for the first time since 1995-96. Temple has won the last six since a 1975 East Coast Conference Playoff victory for Rider.
- Rider connected on 37-of-48 free-throw attempts against Marist. The 48 attempts are tied for most by a Rider team since Feb. 26, 1999 (50 vs. Manhattan).
- Rider was outrebounded (29-28) for the first time this season last time out.
- The Broncs saw three players post double-doubles in the same game for the first time since Jan. 30, 1996 in Rider's Dec. 14 win over LIU.
- Rider had six players in double-figures scoring for the third time in less than a calendar year on Dec. 3 vs. Bucknell. 
- Marshall has a team and MAAC-leading four double-doubles this season. 
- Jordan (519 assists) moved into 3rd all-time at Rider on Nov. 20 at UMass.
- Jordan projects to be the Broncs' all-time leader in assists (598) and steals (188).
- Rider was picked to finish second in the MAAC after finishing tied for second in the regular season standings a year ago.
- Tyere Marshall, Frederick Scott and Dimencio Vaughn are all on pace to score their 1,000th point this season, and would join senior Stevie Jordan as the 38th, 39th and 40th Broncs to score 1,000 career points.
- Eighth-year Head Coach Kevin Baggett's teams have posted a 130-106 record. Baggett won MAAC Coach of the Year in 2015 and 2018.
- Baggett passed Don Harnum for 4th all-time at Rider on Dec. 3. Only Kevin Bannon (131), Thomas Leyden (187) and John Carpenter (292) have more.