POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – The Marist University men's basketball team (5-2 overall, 1-0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) plays the last of its six straight home games on Sunday, when the Red Foxes host Manhattan (4-5, 1-0).
Tip-off at McCann Arena is set for 2 p.m.
- The game will be shown on ESPN+ with Dean Darling (play-by-play), Steve Eggink (analyst), and William Rosen (sideline) on the call.
- In-game updates will be available on X - @MaristMBB.
- Marist earned a 64-56 home win over Mount St. Mary's in its conference opener on Friday night at McCann Arena.
- Rhyjon Blackwell led the way with 16 points, followed by Jadin Collins-Roberts and Justin Menard with 11 points apiece.
- Collins-Roberts scored all of his 11 in the second half. His three-point play with 1:47 to play put Marist ahead for good, and was the start of a 12-1 run for the Red Foxes.
- Marist held Mount without a field goal for 9:32 in the first half, and then held the Mount to just one field goal over the final nine minutes of the game.
- The Jaspers opened conference play with a 70-66 home victory against Fairfield on Friday. Jaden Winston paced the Jaspers with 18 points, six assists, and six steals.
- On the season, Winston averages a team-leading 15.0 points per game, and leads four Jaspers averaging in double figures (Devin Dinkins, 14.8 ppg; Fraser Roxburgh, 13.1 ppg; Terrance Jones, 11.8 ppg).
- Roxburgh averages a team-best 6.8 rebounds per game.
- Head coach John Gallagher is in his third season.
- John Dunne is 11-3 vs. Manhattan as Marist's head coach, with a 4-1 record at McCann Arena and five straight wins.
- A win would give Marist its third straight 6-2 start.
- Since the start of the 2022-23 season, Marist is 31-13 in day games, including 15-4 at McCann Arena. Starting with this game, nine of Marist's last 10 games at McCann Arena this season will be day games.
- Mount's 21 turnovers on Friday are the highest total Marist has forced since turning Manhattan over 26 times on Dec. 19, 2020.
- Jadin Collins-Roberts is 26 of his last 28 (.929) from the line dating back to last season.
- Marist plays its first road game in 34 days on Saturday, Dec. 13 when the Red Foxes travel to Bryant.
- Tip-off is set for 4 p.m.
