Women's Basketball
Sunday, March 10, 2019
MAAC Tournament Semifinals
No. 2 Rider Broncs (19-11, 14-4 MAAC) vs. No. 3 Marist Red Foxes (22-9, 13-5 MAAC)
Location: Albany, NY – Times Union Center (17,500)
Tip: 1:30 pm
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Live Video: ESPN3
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Tickets: GoBroncsTix.com
Live Audio: 107.7 The Bronc
Twitter: @RiderWBB
Complete Game Notes: Marist (MAAC Semifinals)

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- All regular-season home games in 2018-19 will be carried on either ESPN3 or ESPN+. Road games only will be carried on 107.7 The Bronc, including Sunday's tilt with Daryl Fein and Steve Rudenstein on the call.

- Rider and Marist are playing for the 60th time in the all-time series history with the Red Foxes holding a 42-17 advantage. Rider has had the edge of late, winning four of the last six meetings. Rider is 1-1 against Marist all-time in the MAAC Tournament.

- The Red Foxes enter Sunday's tilt with a 22-9 overall record after defeating sixth-seeded Manhattan, 65-51, on Saturday in the MAAC Quarterfinals. Marist earned the No. 3 seed in the MAAC Championship thanks to posting a 13-5 mark in conference play. The Red Foxes had three players earn All-MAAC honors this season. Juniors Rebekah Hand and Alana Gilmer earned First Team All-MAAC distinction, while point guard Grace Vander Weide landed on the Third Team. Marist leads the MAAC in scoring offense (68.8), field-goal percentage (.435), three-point field-goal percentage (.365), three-point field goals made per game (8.2), assist-to-turnover ratio (1.18) and assists per game (16.4). Hand and Gilmer both average in double figures. Hand is pouring in over 16 points per game and she leads the MAAC in free-throw percentage (.940), while Gilmer is scoring over 15 points per contest and leads the MAAC in field-goal percentage (.489) amongst qualified players.

- Rider swept the regular-season series with Marist in 2018-19. The Broncs scored a 68-58 victory in Poughkeepsie in late January with four players scoring in double figures. In mid-February, Stella Johnson scored a game-high 23 points as Rider closed the contest on a 6-0 run over the final 47 seconds en route to a 70-64 win.

- Last time out, Stella Johnson and Lea Favre both recorded double-doubles as the second-seeded Broncs rallied to defeat No. 10 seed Iona, 54-46, in the MAAC Championship Quarterfinals on Friday. Trailing by 15 at the break, Rider outscored Iona, 20-4, in the third quarter to take one-point edge at 36-35 into the fourth. During the third, the Broncs used a 16-0 run that started with a driving lay-up from junior guard Stella Johnson and ended with a bucket from Daija Moses off a feed from Stella five minutes later. All told, the Broncs held Iona to 10 percent (1-of-10) shooting in the third quarter and forced four Iona turnovers coming out of halftime.

- Junior guard Stella Johnson was named the 2019 MAAC Women's Basketball Player on Friday morning as announced by the league during the 2019 Basketball Postseason Awards Show on ESPN3. Johnson becomes the second player in the last three years and the second Bronc in program history to be tabbed as the MAAC Player of the Year.

- In the MAAC Quarterfinals, Stella had 20 points, 12 rebounds, seven assists and one steal. It marked her third double-double of the season. The come-from-behind triumph was also 11th time in 2018-19 that Stella has had at least five rebounds and five assists in the same game.

- Rider outrebounded Iona, 34-28, last time out. In the win, junior Stella Johnson had a game-high 12 rebounds and Lea Favre added 10 boards of her own. The Broncs have outrebounded their opponents in five straight games and eight of their last nine contests.