GAME 23 – Thursday, February 6, 2025
Rider Broncs (8-14, 4-7 MAAC) vs. Sacred Heart Pioneers (9-12, 5-5 MAAC)
Location: Fairfield, CT – William H. Pitt Center
Tip: 7 p.m.
Live Video – ESPN+
International Stream –
MAAC.TV
Live Stats –
SacredHeartPioneers.com
X (Formerly Twitter) –
Twitter.com/RiderMBB
What You Need To Know
- Rider returns to action Thursday, when it travels to Sacred Heart.
- The Broncs lost a heartbreaker to Merrimack on Sunday, leading for much of the final nine minutes before the Warriors took their first lead of the span on a Budd Clark jumper with eight seconds left.
- The Broncs held off Saint Peter's, 67-64 Friday for Head Coach
Kevin Baggett's 200th career victory, all at Rider. He became the fourth coach to win 200 games with a MAAC program or programs and just the second to accomplish the feat at a single MAAC institution.
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T.J. Weeks Jr. scored a game-high 17 points in the win over Saint Peter's.
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Tariq Ingraham posted his team-leading fifth double-double of the season with 15 points and 14 rebounds at Quinnipiac.
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T.J. Weeks Jr. has been the Broncs' leading scorer, averaging 13.3 points per game. He's scored in double figures 18 times in 21 games played, including a season-high 21 points at Fairfield.
- Rider is 7-1 this season when holding the opposition to fewer than 72 points. The loss to Merrimack was the Broncs' first when allowing fewer than 72.
- Rider and Sacred Heart are meeting for just the third time, with the first two coming in the Pioneers' first two seasons at Division I. Rider won both pairings.
- The Pioneers are led by Tanner Thomas at 15.3 points and 5.8 rebounds per game. Anquan Hill (12.3 ppg.) and Amiri Stewart (11.8 ppg.) also average in double figures, while Nyle Ralph-Byer (9.0 ppg.), Aidan Carpenter (8.9 ppg.), Bryce Johnson (8.9 ppg., 5.8 rpg.) and Mekhi Conner (8.6 ppg., 6.2 apg.) give Sacred Heart solid balance.
- The Broncs were picked seventh in the MAAC Preseason Coaches' Poll.
- 13th-year Head Coach
Kevin Baggett's teams have posted a 200-197 record. Baggett won MAAC Coach of the Year in 2015 and 2018.
- Only John Carpenter (292) has more wins at Rider.
