GAME 20 - Friday, January 31, 2020
Autism Speaks Awareness Night
Rider University Broncs (11-8, 5-4 MAAC) vs. Fairfield Stags (8-11, 4-4 MAAC)
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ – Alumni Gymnasium
Tip: 7 p.m.
Tickets – GoBroncsTix.com
Live Video – ESPN3
Live Stats – GoBroncs.com
Live Audio – None
Twitter – Twitter.com/RiderMBB
 
What You Need To Know
- Rider has won its last two games against Saint Peter's and at Manhattan.
- The Rider Coaching Staff will wear blue pins in support of Autism Speaks.
- Prior to the game, there will be a 24.8-second moment of silence and the Broncs will wear t-shirts during warm-ups with 24 on one side and 8 on the other in honor of Kobe Bryant. 
- Frederick Scott became the 40th Rider player all-time and the fourth current Bronc to score 1,000 career points on Jan. 24 vs. Saint Peter's. Stevie Jordan, Dimencio Vaughn and Tyere Marshall also have 1,000 career points, making Rider one of two programs in Division I to have four 1,000-point scorers, and the only team to have all four score all 1,000 points for a single team.
- Fairfield leads the all-time series with Rider, 34-31. However, the Broncs have won the last three, including an 83-82 win last Jan. 3 in Fairfield.
- First-year Head Coach Jay Young has led Fairfield to a 4-4 mark in league play, including wins over Canisius (2), Manhattan and Saint Peter's.
- Landon Taliaferro leads the Stags at 13.9 points per game, while shooting 37.9 percent from long range and 94.7 percent from the free-throw line. Jesus Cruz also averages in double-figures at 12.0 points per game, while Taj Benning just misses the mark at 9.4 points to go along with a team-high 2.6 assists per game.
Vincent Eze has also chipped in with 8.4 ppg. and a team-high 5.8 rpg.
- Tyere Marshall scored a career-high 31 points, including the 1,000th of his career, on Jan. 19 at Canisius.
- Vaughn scored his 1,000th point on Jan. 12 at Marist.
- Rider has outrebounded its opponent in 15-of-19 games this season.
- Head Coach Kevin Baggett (134 wins) moved passed Kevin Bannon (131) for third on Rider's all-time wins list on Jan. 12 at Marist. 
- Marshall, Scott and Vaughn all have four double-doubles this season. 
- Jordan (556 assists, 175 steals) ranks 3rd at Rider in both categories.
- Eighth-year Head Coach Kevin Baggett's teams have posted a 134-111 record. Baggett won MAAC Coach of the Year in 2015 and 2018.
- Only John Carpenter (292) and Thomas Leyden (187) have more wins at Rider than Baggett.