Women's Basketball
Game 19
Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 2:00 pm
Rider Broncs (16-2, 9-0 MAAC) vs. Monmouth Hawks (5-14, 2-8 MAAC)
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ (Alumni Gymnasium)
Tip: 2:00 pm
Live Stats: GoBroncs.com
Live Video: ESPN3
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Twitter: @RiderWBB
Game Notes: Game 19
 
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- All remaining Rider basketball games in 2019-20 will air on ESPN+ or ESPN3.
 
- The Hawks enter Saturday afternoon's matinee with a 5-14 overall record and a 2-8 mark in MAAC play after falling at home to Marist on January 25. Monmouth is in the midst of a four-game losing streak and the Hawks are 2-9 in true road games this season. Offensively, it is a balanced attack for Monmouth with three players averaging over nine points this season. Sierra Green, a Preseason First Team All-MAAC selection, is the lone Hawk averaging in double figures with more than 10 points per game.
 
- Monmouth leads the all-time series with Rider, 29-18. However, the Broncs have had the edge of late, winning five of the last six meetings. Last year, Rider swept the regular-season series with Monmouth, winning each game by double figures. Under Lynn Milligan, Rider is 10-5 versus the Hawks.
 
- Last time out, Seniors Stella Johnson and Amari Johnson each scored 24 points apiece to lead the Broncs past Manhattan, 76-53, on Thursday evening. Rider used an 8-0 run late in the first half to break open a close game. The Bronc lead would remain in double figures throughout, stretching to as many as 23 late in the game.
 
- Rider is 16-2 for the first time joining Division I prior to the 1982-83 season. The previous-best 18-game start to a season for the Broncs was in 2016-17 when the squad started 13-5.  
 
- Rider is in the midst of a 13-game winning streak. The 13-game winning streak is a program-record for consecutive wins. Rider is one of five current Division I teams with a winning streak of at least 13 games.  
 
- Rider is 6-0 this season in games decided by five points or fewer. The Broncs have scored the game-winning basket with under 10 seconds to play in two of their wins this season.
 
- Rider has started MAAC play 9-0 for first time in program history. The previous best nine-game start to MAAC play was 7-2 which the team did in both 2018-19 and 2016-17. Dating back to last season, the Broncs have won 12 straight regular-season MAAC contests.
 
- Following the 64-57 win over Xavier in mid-November, Rider moved into CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top-25 Poll. The Broncs are currently ranked ninth in the poll. The ninth ranking is the highest-ever for Rider in the poll.
 
- On November 26, Stella Johnson was named the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) Ann Meyers Drysdale Women's National Player of the Week. It marked the first time in program history that a Bronc was named the USBWA National Player of the Week and also the first time a player from the MAAC picked up the weekly accolade as well. Stella is one of just two active players in all of Division I, along with Princeton's Bella Alarie, to be have earned both USBWA National Player of the Week and USBWA National Freshman of the Week honors in their careers.
 
- Senior guard Stella Johnson set a single-game program record with 41 points in the victory over Lipscomb on November 22. The previous record for points in game by a Bronc was 37 by both MyNeshia McKenzie and Nancy Carroll. She was the first player in the MAAC to score over 40 points since Victoria Rampado had 41 against Siena in January of 2018.
 
- Stella Johnson became the first player in program history to earn MAAC Preseason Player of the Year honors. Stella was also a unanimous selection to the Preseason All-MAAC First Team. Two other Broncs picked up preseason accolades as senior Amari Johnson landed on the Preseason All-MAAC Second Team and classmate Lea Favre earned Preseason All-MAAC Third Team distinction.  
 
- Senior Stella Johnson was named to the Women's Citizen Naismith Trophy Watch List as announced by the Atlanta Tipoff Club on November 6th. Johnson is one of 50 players in the nation and just two players from mid-major programs to earn a spot on the list. In late October, Johnson was also named one of 20 watch-list candidates for the 2020 Nancy Lieberman Award as announced by The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). She was also named to the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Watch List by the USBWA on December 5.