GAME 5 – Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Rider Broncs (3-1) at Iowa Hawkeyes (4-0)
Location: Iowa City, IA – Carver-Hawkeye Arena
Tip: 8 p.m. (ET)/7 p.m. (CT)
Live Video – B1G+
Live Stats – HawkeyeSports.com
X (Formerly Twitter) – Twitter.com/RiderMBB
 
What You Need To Know
- Rider returns to action Tuesday, when it plays the fifth in a seven-game road stretch to open the 2024-25 season at the University of Iowa.  
- After opening the season with a setback at #22 UCLA (Nov. 4), the Broncs have responded with wins at San Diego (Nov. 6), Coppin State (Nov. 9) and Navy (Nov. 12).
- Rider's three true road wins are most in the nation and mark the first time in program history that the Broncs have won three true road games in November.
- T.J. Weeks Jr. has been the Broncs' leading scorer, averaging 16.0 points per game. He scored 15 at UCLA, 19 at San Diego, 12 at Coppin State and 18 at Navy.
- Rider shot a season-high 52.9 percent (27-51) from the floor and 52.6 percent (10-19) from long range at Navy.
- Making his first career start, Ife West-Ingram went for 14 points on 6-for-6 shooting, seven rebounds and six assists on Nov. 12 at Navy. 
- Iowa has won its first four games over East Texas A&M, Southern, South Dakota and Washington State.
- The Hawkeyes feature five players averaging in double figures scoring, led by Owen Freeman at 17.0 ppg. to go along with a team-best 9.3 rpg. Payton Sandfort is second in both categories at 16.8 ppg. and 7.3 rpg., while Josh Dix (12.3 ppg.), Pryce Sandfort (11.8 ppg.) and Drew Thelwell (10.0 ppg.) also average 10 points or more. Brock Harding has paced Iowa at 5.5 apg.
- 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 195-184 record. Baggett won MAAC Coach of the Year in 2015 and 2018.
- Only John Carpenter (292) has more wins at Rider.