POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – The Marist University men's basketball team (17-5 overall, 10-3 MAAC) completes its two-game road trip on Sunday, when the Red Foxes face Merrimack (14-11, 11-3) at Lawler Arena in North Andover, Massachusetts. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.
 
This is the first meeting of the season between two of the MAAC's top three teams. Merrimack enters the contest tied for first place in the conference with Quinnipiac, while Marist sits just a half-game behind.
 

How to Follow

• Dean Darling and Steve Eggink will have the call on the Red Fox Network and Varsity Network app. Coverage begins at 1:45.
• John Avino and Jacob VanRyn will have the call on ESPN+.
• Follow on X for in-game updates - @MaristMBB.

 

Last Time Out

• Marist came back from a 14-point deficit for a 65-64 win at Siena on Friday.
• Elijah Lewis led the Red Foxes with 14 points, and hit the game-winning three-pointer in the final 30 seconds.
• Josh Pascarelli scored 12.
• Jaden Daughtry had a game-high 13 rebounds.
• Trace Salton had a season-high six points, and he tied his career high with seven rebounds.
• The Red Foxes held Siena to .358 shooting from the field and a .235 mark from three-point range.

 

About Merrimack

• The Warriors fell at Manhattan by a score of 79-75 on Friday, Feb. 14.
• Prior to that, Merrimack had won three in a row.
• The Warriors have the MAAC's second-leading scorer in Budd Clark, who averages 19.8 points per game.
• Clark leads the MAAC in minutes (36.6 mpg), is second in steals (2.5 spg), and is third in assists (5.7 apg).
• As a team, Merrimack leads the MAAC in turnover margin (+5.36), and is second in points per game allowed (64.4), trailing only Marist (64.0).
• Head coach Joe Gallo is in ninth season.

 

Top Tidbits

• The 14-point deficit Marist overcame at Siena tied its largest this season (also at Stony Brook, Dec. 17), and was the 14th time in head coach John Dunne's tenure that Marist erased a double-digit deficit to win.
• Marist is 10-3 when trailing (8-2) or tied (2-1) at halftime.
• Jadin Collins-Roberts' .483 field goal percentage is eighth in the MAAC, and highest of any guard with enough makes to qualify. Collins-Roberts is shooting .585 in his last 14 games, and also has a 10-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio in his last two games.
• Marist is 7-0 in day games this season, and 22-8 in the last three seasons.

 

What's Next

• Marist returns home for back-to-back games next weekend, the first of which will be against Canisius on Friday, Feb. 21.
• Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.