Women's Basketball
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Rider Broncs (7-19, 4-13 MAAC) vs. Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers (10-15, 6-10 MAAC)
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ (Alumni Gym)
Tip: 11:00 a.m.
Live Stats: GoBroncs.com
Broadcast: ESPNU
Live Audio: 107.7 TheBronc
Twitter: @RiderWBB
  
What You Need To Know
- Thursday morning's game will be broadcast nationally on ESPNU.
 
- Thursday's game will be the final of a four-game home stand for the Broncs.
 
- It is Rider's Kids Day Out game with 1,200 youth in attendance.
 
- The MAAC championship trophy will be in the SRC lobby for all to pose for photos with.
 
- Last time out, Raphaela Toussaint (Kingston, Ontario/Lincoln Prep) recorded her second-straight double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds and Victoria Toomey (Dunmore, PA/Dunmore) added 14 points and seven rebounds, but the Broncs fell to Quinnipiac 59-54.
 
- Amanda Mobley (Coopersburg, PA/Southern Lehigh) currently leads the MAAC and ranks 13^th nationally at 6.2 assists per game. She set her career-high and Rider Division-I record with 13 assists against Manhattan.
 
- 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. She got her team-leading fifth double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds against Quinnipiac.
 
- Nearly two-thirds of Jessika Schiffer's (Iserlohn, Germany/Deutschhaus Gymnasium Würzburg) shots last season (179-277) came from three-point range. 148 of her 218 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.
 
- Mount St. Mary's leads the all-time series 19-6, including the first meeting as a MAAC opponent in early January. Prior to that meeting, Rider had taken three of the previous four matchups. When the teams met in 2018-19, Stella Johnson had a triple-double with 35 points, 12 rebounds, and 10 assists in an 85-67 Rider victory.
 
- The Mountaineers are eighth in the MAAC this season, at 10-15 overall and 6-10 in MAAC play in their first season in the league. Michaela Harrison leads the Mountaineers at 12.4 points per game. Harrison also ranks among the league leaders in three-pointers this season. In the first meeting this season, The Mount hit 12 threes in the victory over the Broncs.