GAME 21 - Sunday, February 2, 2020
Rider University Broncs (12-8, 6-4 MAAC) vs. Monmouth Hawks (12-8, 6-3 MAAC)
Location: West Long Branch, NJ – OceanFirst Bank Center
Tip: 1 p.m.
Tickets – GoBroncsTix.com
Live Video – ESPN+
Live Stats – MonmouthHawks.com
Live Audio – 107.7 The Bronc
Twitter – Twitter.com/RiderMBB
 
What You Need To Know
- RU has won its last three games against Saint Peter's, Manhattan and Fairfield.
- Rider shot nearly 70 percent in the second half against Fairfield to turn a three-point halftime deficit into a 16-point win on Friday night.
- Rider leads the all-time series with Monmouth, 30-22, including the last meeting on Feb. 15, 2019, at Alumni Gym. The two teams have split the season series in each of the last three years.
- Monmouth features one of the league's top backcourt duos in Deion Hammond (16.4 ppg.) and Ray Salnave (14.6 ppg., 3.0 apg.). Mustapha Traore (7.0 ppg., 5.5 rpg.) and George Papas (7.0 ppg.) have also made strong scoring contributions, while Samuel Chaput has dished out a team-best 3.5 assists per game.
- 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.
- Rider is just the third NCAA Division I team in the last five years to have four 1,000-point scorers with all 1,000-points scored at a single school.
- 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 16-of-20 games this season.
- Head Coach Kevin Baggett (135 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 (559 assists, 177 steals) ranks 3rd at Rider in both categories.
- Eighth-year Head Coach Kevin Baggett's teams have posted a 135-112 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.