NEW ROCHELLE, NY – Tyere Marshall (Philadelphia, PA/Martin Luther King/Putnam Science) posted a double-double of 22 points and 14 rebounds, but the Rider University men's basketball team dropped a heartbreaker at Iona, 70-69, Friday night at the Hynes Center. With the loss, the Broncs fall to 15-11 (9-7 MAAC), while the Gaels improve to 10-13 (8-8 MAAC).

Rider erased an Iona lead of as many as nine points in the first half, tying the game three times in the second half before taking its first lead since the midway point of the first half on a Frederick Scott (Munster, IN/Simeon [DePaul]) three-point play with 3:21 left in the game. Rider pushed the lead to five with pair of Marshall free throws with 37 seconds left. After Iona connected on two free throws on the other end, Rider misfired on three of its next four attempts at the line to leave the door open.

With 12 seconds remaining, Isaiah Ross knocked down a three from the top of the key to give Iona a 70-69 lead. A held ball gave the ball back to Iona with 6.0 seconds left and the Broncs fouled E.J. Crawford with 5.7 seconds remaining. Crawford missed the front end of a 1-and-1, giving Rider another chance with 5.3 seconds left. Jordan went coast-to-coast, got into the lane, but his floater wouldn't fall and Iona came away with the victory.

Quotes & Notes
"We shoot ourselves in the foot. We cost ourselves the game. We've got to make free throws. We've got to execute. We've got to do what we're asking you to do, not what you want to do."

"We wanted to get up and down so they didn't get set up in their zone as much as we could not allow them to do. So we did a decent job doing that." – Rider Head Coach Kevin Baggett

- Iona leads the all-time series with Rider, 41-26, including the last four meetings and eight of the last nine games at the Hynes Center.
- With Friday's results around the MAAC, Rider dips one spot from third to fourth. Saint Peter's paces the league at 11-5, a game ahead of Siena (10-5) in the win column. Monmouth (9-6) is a game ahead of Rider (9-7) in the loss column. Iona (8-8) moved into fifth, a game in the win column ahead of Manhattan, Quinnipiac, Niagara and Fairfield, all of which are 7-8.
- The Broncs return to action Sunday, when they travel to hOURglass Rival Saint Peter's. Tip-off from the Yanitelli Center is 2 p.m. on ESPN3.
 
Broncs by the Numbers
- Marshall made 8-of-11 attempts from the floor and posted his team-leading fifth double-double of the year. It was the 15^th double-double of his Rider career.
- Jordan and Dimencio Vaughn (New York, NY/Callaway/The Masters School) both added 13 points.
- Jordan also contributed nine rebounds, seven assists and a steal. The steal is the 183^rd of his career, putting him five off the Broncs' all-time record (Ryan Thompson – 188).
- Jordan now has 584 career assists, 14 behind Deon Hames for the Rider record.
- Vaughn also added four steals and a block.
- Rider outshot Iona by less than a percentage point, 42.42 percent (28-66) to 42.37 percent (25-59). The Gaels took a 35.5 percent (11-31) to 26.7 percent (4-15) edge from long range and a 60.0 percent (9-15) to 42.9 percent (9-21) advantage from the free-throw line.
- The Broncs outrebounded Iona, 44-36, marking the 20^th time in 26 games that the Broncs have outrebounded the opposition.
- Rider outscored the Gaels, 44-26, in the paint and 16-6 in both points off turnovers and second-chance points.