POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – A day later than initially anticipated, Marist Women's Basketball heads up the New York Thruway to challenge I-87 rival Siena on Saturday, February 13th and Sunday, February 14th at 2 p.m. The series ignites a four-game road trip for the Red Foxes.
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- Saturday's game takes place on ESPN3, while Sunday's will air on ESPN+, beginning at the top of the hour.
- International streams are also provided via MAAC.TV. To access, head to maacsports.com/watch.
- Live statistics are available courtesy of GoRedFoxes.com.
- @MaristWBB on Twitter will feature live updates and in-game highlights.
- The Red Foxes swept their fellow MAAC defending regular season champion Rider on Sunday, February 7th and Monday, February 8th.
- On Sunday, the Red Foxes held its opponent under 50 points for the seventh time this season, resulting in a 47-46 comeback win. Willow Duffell paced the team with 15 points.
- On Monday, Trinasia Kennedy scored 15 of her game-high 20 points in the second half, and Duffell, Allie Best, and Sarah Barcello also scored in double figures as the Red Foxes outscored the Broncs 27-12 in the fourth quarter for a 70-57 victory.
- Marist swept Rider for the first time since the 2017-18 season.
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- The Red Foxes rose two spots in this week's collegeinsider.com Women's Mid-Major Top 25, ranking a MAAC-best 20th.
- Only four other teams in Division I have a lower scoring defense than Marist's 51 points allowed per game:
- North Carolina A&T (47.5)
- UCF (49.1)
- Stephen F. Austin (49.5)
- Stony Brook (50.2)
- Of those four teams, only SFA has played more games than the Red Foxes. Marist and Stony Brook have played 14 games each.
- The Red Foxes have yet to allow more than 61 points in a game this year. Last year's team did so 19 times out of 30 games.
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- Duffell, who was named an honorable mention for the MBWA Player of the Week for the third time this year on Tuesday, is averaging 16 points in her last four games, while shooting 86 percent from the foul line in that span.
- Best has hit a three in 10 straight games. During that stretch, she has averaged 9.7 points per game and 6.3 assists per game.
- In her last five games, Kennedy has two contests with 20 or more points, as many as every other Red Fox in their combined careers.
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- Multiple returning Foxes have boosted their scoring averages by more than a bucket per game from a season ago:
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- Since the start of the 2018-19 season, Marist is 26-8 in road games.
- The program has won at least 10 games away from McCann Arena in four straight seasons heading into this year, including neutral-site matchups.
- At 5-2 with no neutral contests until the MAAC Tournament, Marist would need to win the rest of its scheduled road games and win one game in Atlantic City, NJ.
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- Siena is 2-3, with an identical MAAC record.
- Most recently, the Saints fell to Monmouth 61-60 on Wednesday, February 3rd.
- Siena's two wins came against the Broncs.
- Isis Young leads the Saints in scoring with 19.2 points per game, averaging 36 minutes per contest.
- Rayshel Brown (12.8 PPG, 7.4 RPG) and Margo Peterson (10.4 PPG, 5.0 RPG) also score in double figures.
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- Marist is 37-31 all-time against Siena, and riding a six-game winning streak.
- Last year, the Red Foxes swept the regular season series for the third straight year; the Red Foxes won 78-55 at the Times-Union Center on February 16th, 2020 thanks to a season-high 32 points from Rebekah Hand and a 20-point, 12-rebound double-double from Alana Gilmer, then earned an 81-69 win on Senior Day and the regular season finale on March 7th, 2020
- Thirty-one of the Red Foxes' 37 wins have been by double digits, including 30 of the last 32 dating back to 2005.
- Both teams have had a winning streak against one another of 17 or more games. The Saints' 17-0 spurt was from 12/10/96 to 12/3/04, only to be snapped by the Red Foxes' 25 straight victories from 2/10/05 to 1/28/16.
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- As of writing, Marist concludes its road trip at Iona on Saturday, February 20th and Sunday, February 21st at 2 p.m.
