POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – The Marist men's basketball team (1-2) returns to action on Tuesday night as it takes on perennial Southland Conference power Stephen F. Austin (2-1). Tip-off is set for 8:30 p.m. Eastern.
Tuesday's game is the first of four the Red Foxes will play as part of the Basketball Hall of Fame Belfast Classic, and the first of two on campus sites.
- Twitter: @MaristMBB, @MaristAthletics
- Audio: Mike Ferraro will have the call on the Red Fox Network beginning at 8:15.
- Watch: The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ for a subscription fee.
- Marist was defeated at Lehigh by a score of 78-72 on Tuesday, Nov. 13.
- Brian Parker scored a team-high 17 points, tied for the team with five assists, and also contributed four rebounds.
- Ryan Funk (16 points) and David Knudsen (14 points) gave Marist three double-digit scorers.
- The Red Foxes drained 15 three-pointers in 29 tries.
- Isaiah Lamb grabbed a career-high nine rebounds.
- Marist led by as much as 12, but the Red Foxes were held scoreless in the game's final four minutes.
- Stephen F. Austin is the preseason favorite in the Southland Conference, and has made the NCAA Tournament four times in the last five years.
- Last year, the Lumberjacks led the nation in steals & turnovers forced per game.
- Shannon Bogues averages team highs of 15.0 points and 5.3 assists per game.
- Nathan Bain has a team-high 6.3 rebounds per game.
- This is Marist's first game in the state of Texas in program history.
- This is the first time Marist has ever faced Stephen F. Austin.
- The only other current member of the Southland Conference Marist has ever faced is Central Arkansas - a 71-56 Marist victory on Dec. 30, 2006 in the championship game of the Pepsi-Marist Classic.
- Of the 23 Division I program in Texas, the only other one Marist has ever faced is Houston - a 64-58 loss in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off on Nov. 16, 2007.
- Brian Parker enters the game with 1,423 career points, the 10th highest total in program history.
- Marist continues play in the Basketball Hall of Fame Belfast Classic on Saturday, Nov. 24 with another campus game at Buffalo. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.
- It is the final campus game the Red Foxes will play as part of the tournament before heading to Northern Ireland.
