LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ – Frederick Scott (Munster, IN/Simeon [DePaul]) scored 16 of his game-high 21 points in the second half as the Rider University men's basketball team led wire-to-wire in an 81-72 win over hOURglass rival Monmouth Friday night at Alumni Gymnasium. The Broncs (13-13, 8-6 MAAC) snapped a five-game losing skid, knocking the Hawks (10-17, 9-5 MAAC) out of a first-place tie in the league.

The Broncs scored the game's first seven points and never trailed. Monmouth cut the Rider lead to three on four occasions in the first half, but the Broncs maintained a 31-25 lead at the half. Stevie Jordan (Bensalem, PA/Conwell-Egan/API) paced Rider with 10 points in the period, while Dimencio Vaughn (New York, NY/Callaway/The Masters School) added seven points and three steals in the first 20 minutes.

Rider maintained a two-possession lead throughout the second half, pushing the advantage to as many as 11 on a pair of Tyere Marshall (Philadelphia, PA/Martin Luther King/Putnam Science) free throws with 13:17 remaining and again with seven seconds left. The closest Monmouth could draw in the final 14 minutes was six.  

Quotes & Notes
"Finally happy to end that losing streak and hopefully this will be the start of a winning streak for us. I thought, start-to-finish, our guys did a really good job and it started with these two guys here. It started with Stevie doing a good job getting us out and going. And Freddy making some big shots. And everybody – it was a team effort. We knew we needed to get off of this, so I'm just happy. It's more of a relief for us all to be honest with you."

"A sense of urgency, just a sense of urgency to get off this losing streak. A sense of urgency to get off the last game that we lost down the stretch and just executing, taking care of the ball and knowing time and score and being aggressive. There were times where they made their run and I thought our guys did a good job continuing to attack and get to the free-throw line and forcing tempo, for the most part, the entire game."

"None of us wants to lose and be in a situation we were the other day. But there's a value to learning things out of it and I thought we learned something the other night. What we did today was an example of what we learned out of that game."  – Rider Head Coach Kevin Baggett

"Everybody made the right passes, extra passes. It looks good and gets us buckets." – Rider junior point guard Stevie Jordan

"My teammates know what I can bring. Everybody has a role on this team and I feel like my role is to just play hard for my team and bring it. If I'm open, shoot it. If they don't give it to me, drive. Just staying aggressive and making the extra pass is what really helped us tonight. I've got to give it to my teammates. They were looking for me, back doors, drive and kicks – that's how I really got off to my second-half start." – Redshirt sophomore forward Frederick Scott

- The game was the 52^nd meeting in the all-time series with Monmouth, with Rider extending its lead to 30-22. The two teams have now split the last three regular-season series and the last three years and 14 meetings since Monmouth joined the MAAC in 2013-14.
- The Broncs led from wire-to-wire for the first time this season.
- Rider led at the half for the fifth time in MAAC play, pushing its record to 3-2.
- The Broncs' five-game losing skid matched Head Coach Kevin Baggett's longest in seven years at Rider (Dec. 9, 2012 – Jan. 4, 2013).    
- Rider returns to action Sunday, when it travels to hOURglass rival Saint Peter's at 2 p.m.      
 
Broncs by the Numbers
- Marshall had 17 points and 10 rebounds, posting his second double-double of the year to match Scott's team-leading total. It was Marshall's ninth career double-double.
- Anthony Durham (Philadelphia, PA/Abington/Putnam Science) narrowly missed a double-double, going for 11 points, nine rebounds and four assists.
- Jordan finished with 15 points, six assists and four steals. His four steals give him 135 for his career and push him into 10^th in program history, passing Charles Smith '96 and R.J. Wicks '02 (133 each). His next steal will equal Ed Titus '88 for ninth (136), while Jonathon Thompson '13 is eighth at 138.
- Vaughn rounded out the Broncs' double-figures scorers with 11 points to go along with four steals.
- Rider forced 23 Monmouth turnovers and outscored the Hawks, 25-12, off turnovers.
- Rider was outscored in the paint, 40-32, marking just the second time in 14 league games. The Broncs have now outscored league foes, 544-422, in the paint for an average of +8.7 points per game.  
- Monmouth outshot Rider, 43.1 percent (25-58) to 41.8 percent (23-55) from the floor. However, the Broncs made 30-of-47 free-throw attempts to the Hawks' 18-of-28.
- Entering the game 11^th in the nation at 9.0 steals per game, Rider had 15 steals today.