GAME 4 – Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Rider Broncs (2-1) at Navy Midshipmen (1-1)
Location: Annapolis, MD – Alumni Hall
Tip: 7 p.m.
Live Video – ESPN+
Live Stats – NavySports.com
X (Formerly Twitter) – Twitter.com/RiderMBB
 
What You Need To Know
- Rider returns to action Tuesday, when it plays its second-straight road contest in Maryland, this time taking on Navy in Annapolis. 
- After opening the season with a setback at #22 UCLA (Nov. 4), the Broncs have responded with wins at San Diego (Nov. 6) and Coppin State (Nov. 9).
- T.J. Weeks Jr. has been the Broncs' leading scorer, averaging 15.3 points per game. He scored 15 at UCLA, 19 at San Diego and 12 at Coppin State.
- At Coppin State, Tariq Ingraham had a team-high 16 points, nine rebounds and three blocks. Flash Burton also scored in double figures with 11.
- Alaaeddine Boutayeb (14 points at UCLA) and Jay Alvarez (15 at San Diego) also have a double-figures output this season.
- Navy opened the season with a setback at Saint Joseph's on Nov. 4, before defeating Harvard at home this past Friday.
- The Midshipmen are led by Austin Benigni, who's averaged 28.5 points 5.0 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game. He's shot 45.9 percent from the floor, with all but 2-of-5 shooting coming from inside the three-point arc. He's also gotten to the line with regularity, making 21-of-22 attempts (.955). Jordan Pennick (12.0 ppg.) and Aidan Kehoe (11.5 ppg.) also average in double figures, with Kehoe also grabbing a team-high 8.5 rpg. Donovan Draper has matched Kehoe's team rebounding lead.
- The Broncs were picked seventh in the MAAC Preseason Coaches' Poll. Rider has had unique success in three prior occasions being picked seventh, outperforming their projections with the 1st (2017-18), 2nd (2014-15) and 6th (2016-17) seeds in the MAAC Tournament in those seasons.
- 13th-year Head Coach Kevin Baggett's teams have posted a 194-184 record. Baggett won MAAC Coach of the Year in 2015 and 2018.
- Only John Carpenter (292) has more wins at Rider.