Women's Basketball
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Rider Broncs (6-18, 3-12 MAAC) vs. Saint Peter's Peacocks (0-24, 0-15 MAAC)
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ (Alumni Gym)
Tip: 7:00 p.m.
Live Stats: GoBroncs.com
Broadcast: ESPN3
Live Audio: 107.7 TheBronc
Twitter: @RiderWBB
 
 
What You Need To Know
- Thursday night's game will be broadcast on ESPN3.
 
- Thursday's game will be the second of a four-game home stand for the Broncs.
 
- Rider women's basketball has partnered with the ZTA sorority and Princeton YWCA for Pink Night. The Broncs will be collecting items for care bags in the lobby of Alumni Gym.
 
- Last time out, Raphaela Toussaint (Kingston, Ontario/Lincoln Prep) scored a career-high 24 points and Victoria Toomey (Dunmore, PA/Dunmore) tied a career-high with 18, but the Broncs fell to Manhattan 71-56.
 
- Amanda Mobley (Coopersburg, PA/Southern Lehigh) currently leads the MAAC and ranks 13^th nationally at 6.1 assists per game. She set her career-high with 12 assists at Canisius, then tied that mark against Saint Peter's.
 
- Rider went 1-1 at the MAAC/ASUN Challenge, defeating North Florida 76-67 before falling to Eastern Kentucky 85-64. Makayla Firebaugh (Winchester, VA/James Wood) averaged 21.0 points and 5.0 rebounds while shooting 55.0% from behind the arc to earn MAAC Player of the Week honors.
 
- At the MAAC/ASUN Challenge, Maya Hyacienth (Nottingham, United Kingdom/City of London Academy) drained six threes across the pair of games. She has 12 triples on the season.
 
- Rider was picked to finish tied for sixth in the MAAC Preseason Coaches' Poll. The Broncs return four starters and all but three members of last year's team.
 
- Firebaugh was named Preseason Third-Team All-MAAC. The 2020-21 MAAC Co-Rookie of the Year averaged 11.0 points and 4.4 rebounds per game last season. Her 31 points against Niagara were the most in a single game by any player in the MAAC last season.
 
- Rider is one of just nine teams in Division I without a true freshman on the roster. They just faced one of the other nine teams at the MAAC/ASUN Challenge when the Broncs battled Eastern Kentucky. The remaining seven teams are Charlotte, Coastal Carolina, CSUN, Gonzaga, Green Bay, Norfolk St, and Valpo. The Broncs are one of just five teams that returns 12 or more players from last season's roster, joining Columbia, Western Michigan, Liberty, and Weber State.
 
- Rider has made the MAAC Semifinals in five of the last six seasons. The Broncs were named MAAC Champions for 2019-20 for the first time in program history.
 
- Toussaint led the Broncs with five double-doubles last season. She earned her first double-double of the season against North Florida with 13 points and 13 rebounds, posted 10 points and 10 rebounds against Fairfield for her second, and added 12 points and 10 rebounds for her third at Marist.
 
- Nearly two-thirds of Jessika Schiffer's (Iserlohn, Germany/Deutschhaus Gymnasium Würzburg) shots last season (179-277) came from three-point range. 136 of her 201 shots this season have come from deep. Schiffer scored a season-high 19 points against Lehigh.
 
- ToniRenee Blanford (Montclair, NJ/The Patrick School[Union College]) scored a season-high 11 points and added a season-high eight rebounds at Seton Hall.
 
- The Broncs used a 23-0 run to pull away from the Peacocks in an 87-52 victory last time these team's met on New Year's Eve. The Broncs cut into the Peacocks' all-time lead in the series, which stands at 48-27. All five Rider starters scored in double figures during that meeting.
 
- The Peacocks are currently 0-24 overall and 0-15 in MAAC play. The Peacocks closest game came in January when the Peacocks fell by just three at Niagara. Jada Leonard leads the Peacocks this year at 9.8 points per game.