POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – The Marist men's basketball returns home to McCann Arena to face Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference rival Siena on Friday evening. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.
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This will be the 86
th all-time meeting between Marist and Siena, the highest total of any Red Foxes' opponent.
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- Watch: Dean Darling (play-by-play), Steve Eggink (analyst) and Ed Weir (sideline) have the call on ESPN3.
- Twitter: @MaristMBB
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- Marist was defeated at Manhattan, 65-56, on Wednesday.
- Braden Bell scored a career-high 20 points to lead all scorers.
- Tyler Saint-Furcy had 11 points and four steals.
- Michael Cubbage contributed seven points, nine rebounds, and seven assists.
- Manhattan scored the game's first 11 points, and never surrendered the lead after that.
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- Siena has won six straight.
- The Saints are coming off an 84-77 victory at Quinnipiac on Wednesday.
- Siena has three of the MAAC's top 10 scorers in Jalen Pickett (15.6, fourth), Elijah Burns (14.6, fifth), and Manny Camper (14.1, ninth).
- Pickett leads the MAAC in assist-to-turnover ratio, Burns is tops in field goal percentage, and Camper is second in rebounds.
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- The last nine Siena-Marist games at McCann Arena have been decided by an average of 5.1 points, with each one decided by single digits. Siena has won five of the nine.Â
- In his last four games, Braden Bell is averaging 15.3 points and 5.8 rebounds per game while shooting .511 (23-for-45) from the field.
- Bell has 11 double-figure scoring games this season. Nine of those have come in his last 12 games, with four straight.
- Jordan Jones is 16-for-17 (.941) from the free-throw line in his last six games.
- In Marist's last nine games, the opposition is shooting .246 (42-for-171) from three-point range.
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- Marist plays its final regular-season road game on Sunday, March 1 at Quinnipiac.
- Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.
- Quinnipiac won the season's first meeting, 63-58, on Jan. 3 at McCann Arena.