LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ - The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference today announced its league schedule for the 2023-24 season. The schedule features a full round-robin 20-game schedule in which all teams are set to complete home-and-home series against the league's other 10 teams. The Broncs' league schedule features two games in December, with the remaining games to take place after the calendar turns to 2024. The majority of this year's schedule will be contested on Friday's and Sunday's, with a handful of games shifting to a Thursday/Saturday format.   
 
Television information and start times will be announced at a later date.

Siena
Fri., Dec. 1 * Albany, NY
Fri., Feb. 2 * Alumni Gym

Series History: Siena leads, 38-20
Winning Streak: Rider, 1
Last Meeting: Rider, 69-66 (Feb. 24, 2023; Lawrenceville, NJ)
Quickly: The Broncs and Saints split for the second-straight season last year, with each team winning on its home court. Siena took a 68-63 win at home on Jan. 8, before Rider clinched a MAAC Championship opening-round bye with a 69-66 win on Feb. 24 at Alumni Gym.


Fairfield
Sun., Dec. 3 * Alumni Gym
Thu., Feb. 8 * Fairfield

Series History: Fairfield leads, 37-36
Winning Streak: Rider, 2
Last Meeting: Rider, 58-57 (Feb. 10, 2023; Alumni Gym)
Quickly: Allen Powell took over the series with Fairfield last season, making five of his final six attempts from the floor, including the game-tying putback at the regulation buzzer and both of his attempts in overtime, at Fairfield, before going for a game-high 18 points, including the game-winning jumper with 7.3 seconds remaining in a 58-57 win at Alumni Gym.    


Quinnipiac
Fri., Jan. 5 * Hamden, CT
Sun., Feb. 25 * Alumni Gym

Series History: Rider leads, 13-10
Winning Streak: Quinnipiac, 6
Last Meeting: Quinnipiac, 90-88 (2OT) (Feb. 19, 2023; Hamden, CT)
Quickly: After dominating the early portion of the series with Quinnipiac, 12-2, the Broncs have fallen to the Bobcats in eight of the last nine, including three overtime losses in the span. Following the 2022-23 season, Baker Dunleavy left the Bobcats to become Villanova's General Manager of Men's and Women's Basketball and Tom Pecora was elevated to Head Coach.      


Canisius
Sun., Jan. 7 * Alumni Gym
Sun., Mar. 3 * Buffalo, NY

Series History: Rider leads, 40-17
Winning Streak: Canisius, 1
Last Meeting: Canisius, 81-78 (Feb. 17, 2023; Lawrenceville, NJ)
Quickly: The Broncs and Griffs split last season's series, with each team winning on the road. The two teams have split the last 14 meetings, dating back to 2015-16, with eight of the last 11 meetings being decided by three points or less.
  

Manhattan
Fri., Jan. 12 * Alumni Gym
Sun., Feb. 18 * Riverdale, NY

Series History: Rider leads, 37-26
Winning Streak: Rider, 3
Last Meeting: Rider, 67-56 (Feb. 5, 2023; Riverdale, NY)
Quickly: The Broncs have won three straight against Manhattan, including a season sweep in 2022-23. The Jaspers will feature their third coach in just over a calendar year, as former Hartford Head Coach John Gallagher takes over in Riverdale.  



Marist
Sun., Jan. 14 * Poughkeepsie, NY
Sat., Feb. 10 * Alumni Gym

Series History: Rider leads, 42-26
Winning Streak: Rider, 3
Last Meeting: Rider, 68-52 (Jan. 27, 2023; Poughkeepsie, NY)
Quickly: The Broncs have dominated the series with the Red Foxes over the last 15 years to the tune of a 27-5 mark against Marist dating back to the 2007-08 season. Included in the mark are wins in each of the last three, including a season sweep last year.


Niagara
Fri., Jan. 19 * Alumni Gym
Fri., Mar. 1 * Niagara University, NY

Series History: Rider leads, 31-25
Winning Streak: Rider, 1
Last Meeting: Rider, 65-62 (Jan. 20, 2023; Lawrenceville, NJ)
Quickly: The Broncs and Purple Eagles played a pair of close games last year with each team taking a win at home by a single possession. Niagara took the opener in Western New York, 61-59, on Jan. 2, before the Broncs responded with a 65-62 win on Jan. 20 at Alumni Gym. The Broncs erased a double-digit second-half deficit in their win.


Saint Peter's
Thu., Jan. 25 * Jersey City, NJ
Thu., Mar. 7 * Alumni Gym

Series History: Rider leads, 42-35
Winning Streak: Saint Peter's, 1
Last Meeting: Saint Peter's, 70-62 (Mar. 8, 2023; Atlantic City, NJ – MAAC Quarterfinals)
Quickly: Rider swept the regular-season series from Saint Peter's with a pair of double-digit victories last year before the Peacocks scored a 70-62 win over the Broncs in the MAAC Quarterfinals.   



Mount St. Mary's
Sat., Jan. 27 * Emmitsburg, MD
Fri., Feb. 16 * Alumni Gym

Series History: Rider leads, 14-13
Winning Streak: Mount St. Mary's, 1
Last Meeting: Mount St. Mary's, 63-58 (Feb. 26, 2023; Lawrenceville, NJ)
Quickly: Rider and Mount St. Mary's met for the first time since 1997 when the Mountaineers joined the MAAC last season. A former Northeast Conference foe, the Mountaineers played the Broncs 13 times in Rider's five seasons in the NEC, including nine times over their last three seasons in the conference from 1994-95 through 1996-97. In those last three years, the Broncs and Mountaineers met in the 1995 NEC Championship Game, as well as the 1996 Semifinals and the 1997 Quarterfinals. Rider came away with wins in the quarterfinal and semifinal games, with Mount St. Mary's snapping Rider's string of two-straight NEC Championships in 1995. In renewing the series, each team won on the road last year to take a split. 


Iona
Sun., Feb. 4 * New Rochelle, NY
Fri., Feb. 23 * Alumni Gym

Series History: Iona leads, 46-28
Winning Streak: Iona, 1
Last Meeting: Iona, 80-78 (Mar. 4, 2023; Lawrenceville, NJ)
Quickly: Rider snapped the Gaels' 21-game home winning streak last Jan. 15 and will stand as the only team to defeat a Rick Pitino-led Iona team in front of fans at the Hynes Center. The only other teams to earn wins over Pitino's Gaels in New Rochelle were Morgan State and Manhattan in 2020-21, when fans weren't allowed into the building due to COVID-19. Iona earned a split in the season series last year with an 80-78 win in the regular-season finale, with the teams solidified as the Nos. 1 (Iona) and 2 (Rider) seeds prior to tipoff. Iona will play under Tobin Anderson, who coached 16^th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson to a pair of NCAA Tournament victories last season, including an upset of top-seeded Purdue. The Gaels' roster has been almost entirely flipped following the coaching change, with only Osborn Shema returning from the Gaels' MAAC Championship-winning team of a year ago.