GAME 5 – Saturday, November 20, 2021
Rider Broncs (2-2) vs. Buffalo Bulls (1-1)
Location: Buffalo, NY – Alumni Arena
Tip: 2 p.m.
Live Video – ESPN3
Live Stats – UBBulls.com
Twitter – Twitter.com/RiderMBB
 
What You Need To Know
- Rider travels to Buffalo Saturday on ESPN3. The game is a campus site contest to open the Cancun Challenge. 
- The Broncs fell last time out at Bucknell, 81-74, on Wednesday. Dwight Murray, Jr. went for a career-high 30 points to go along with 13 rebounds.
- Rider attempted 83 field goals in the loss at Bucknell, the Broncs' most since a double-overtime loss in the 2009 MAAC Quarterfinals.
- Prior to the loss at Bucknell, the RU had won two straight at home against Coppin State and Delaware State. Rider opened the season with a loss at Duquesne.
- Rider and Buffalo are meeting for the fourth time, but the first time since a home-and-home series that Rider swept in 1991-92, when both teams were East Coast Conference foes. The Bulls took the first meeting on Dec. 16, 1958.
- Buffalo is 1-1 with a loss at nationally-ranked No. 4 Michigan and a win at North Texas. 
- The Bulls are the Preseason MAC favorites, taking 11 of 12 first-place votes from the league's coaches. Buffalo fell in the 2021 MAC Championship Game and qualified for the NIT.
- Jeenathan Williams (23.0 ppg., 7.0 rpg) and Josh Mballa (15.0 ppg., 9.0 rpg.) made up 40 percent of the Preseason All-MAC First Team, while Ronaldo Segu (16.0 ppg., 4.0 apg.) and Maceo Jack (11.5 ppg.) have also averaged in double figures through two games this season.
- Dwight Murray, Jr. and Dimencio Vaughn were named to the Preseason All-MAAC First and Second Teams, respectively.
- The Broncs were picked fifth in the MAAC Preseason Coaches' Poll a year after finishing 11th of 11 teams in 2020-21.
- 10th-year Head Coach Kevin Baggett's teams have posted a 149-135 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.