Stags at Rider Game Day, Thursday at 7pm

[FU73]

The #1 Fairfield University Women's Basketball team (W15)(17-1)(9-0 MAAC) will open up a two-game road trip when they travel to Lawrenceville, N.J., to take on the #10 Rider Broncs (L4)(5-13)(2-7 MAAC) on Thursday night at 7pm on ESPN+. The Stags will enter the game on a 15-game winning streak and will look to match their longest winning streak in their program history, dating back nearly 50 years.

Rider is (4-5) at home with a box score attendance average of 573.

Fairfield
Top Scorer: Meghan Andersen (17.9 PPG)
Top Rebound: Meghan Andersen (5.7 RPG)

Rider
Top Scorer: Taylor Langan (14.3 PPG)
Top Rebounder: Taylor Langan (8.8 RPG)

Game Notes
fairfieldstags.com/documents/2024/1/31/WBBNotes2324_-_Rider_Road.pdf
gobroncs.com/news/2024/1/31/womens-basketball-hosts-nationally-receiving-votes-fairfield-thursday.aspx

ESPN+($)
www.espn.com/watch/player/_/eventCalendarId/401594729

Live Stats
gobroncs.com/sidearmstats/wbball/summary

Tickets ($10-$20)
gobroncs.com/sports/2022/9/2/wbb-ticketing.aspx

Lawrenceville, NJ Weather
38 degrees tonight. Rain showers early will evolve into a more steady rain overnight. Low 38F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 90%. Rainfall around a quarter of an inch.

MAAC Women's Basketball Standings
maacsports.com/standings.aspx?path=wbball

[FU73]

Carly Thibault @ctbow

Shout out to those who have gotten behind the Stags and have noticed what this team is doing.

Hungry to keep showing up and taking care of our business day in and day out. A lot of work left to do, but no other group I’d want to go to battle with every day! Love my Stag fam!

[ff2001]

Let's get two blowout wins @rider and @iona. Looking down the road we have a tough 4 games in a row near the end with Manhattan, Siena, Niagara in the mix.

[FU73]

Stags 35-23 at the half. Stags being outrebounded 16/11. Rider with 11 turnovers. Janelle Brown with 13 points, 5 boards, 2 steals and 2 fouls.

Stags 15-14 at the end of the First Quarter. Janelle Brown with 6 points.

[typhaon]

Rider is slowing it down. Stags need to get up and then put some pressure on them.

[paulie74]

Stags picked it up in Q2. Up by 12 at the half.

[stag76]

[typhaon]

Stags just kind of muddle along, then suddenly scored 7 or 8 points in a row real quick.

[stag79]

Feb 1, 2024 20:23:11 GMT -5 typhaon said:

Stags just kind of muddle along, then suddenly scored 7 or 8 points in a row real quick.

Crazy. Thought they were in trouble at the end of that quarter.

[FU73]

Stags 50-33 at the end of the Third Quarter. Janelle Brown with 17 points and Emina Selimovic with 12 points.

[typhaon]

Real nice games off the bench from Beach and L'amoreaux.

[FU73]

Stags 67-44 for the win! Fairfield is now (W16)(18-1)(10-0 MAAC).

[stags74]

Keep rolling along! Stags up! Way up!

[nittanystag]

Lady Stags are relentless. They just keep coming at you in waves and beat opponents down with their depth. Coach Carly does superb job keeping everyone fresh without missing a beat. Such a joy watching these talented young ladies play.

[FU73]

"It shows we can win in a lot of different ways," Head Coach Carly Thibault-DuDonis said. "I think our offense stands out on paper but defensively we locked down in the second quarter and was able to use our defense to create easier offensive baskets. We can score in transition, we can score in the half court and we can obviously score off our defense as well. There's a lot of different ways we can get it done."

The 18-1 mark is the second-best winning percentage in the country, behind only top-ranked South Carolina. The 16-game winning streak matches the longest in varsity history with the 1974-75 squad that went a perfect 16-0.

Fairfield is back in action on Saturday afternoon at 3 pm when they close out the season-series at Iona.