POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – Winners of three straight, the Marist men's basketball team (19-5 overall, 12-3 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conferences) concludes its weekend homestand on Sunday, when the Red Foxes host Niagara (10-16, 5-10).
Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.
- Dean Darling (play-by-play), Steve Eggink (analyst), and William Rosen (sideline) will have the call on ESPN+.
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- Marist won its third straight, earning an 89-81 home victory over Canisius on Friday.
- Josh Pascarelli scored a career-high 31 points. He paced five Marist scorers in double digits, a list that also included Elijah Lewis (15), Jaden Daughtry (11), Jadin Collins-Roberts (10), and Jason Schofield (10).
- Schofield also hauled in a team-best 10 rebounds for his first career double-double.
- Collins-Roberts also contributed seven rebounds, five assists, and three steals.
- Marist shot a season-best .564 from the field.
- Marist had a +20 rebounding advantage (35-15).
- The Purple Eagles have lost two straight, and fell by a score of 94-60 at Siena in their last outing on Friday.
- Prior to that, Niagara had won two in a row.
- Olumide Adelodun and Jaeden Marshall are tied for the team lead by averaging 10.2 points per game. Adelodun also averages a team-best 5.4 rebounds per game.
- As a team, Niagara ranks second in the MAAC in field goal percentage (.449) and third in three-point percentage (.350).
- Head coach Greg Paulus is in his sixth season.
- Marist is one victory away from its fifth 20-win season in program history, following 1970-71 (21), 1986-87 (20), 1995-96 (22), and 2006-07 (25).
- In the last 11 Marist-Niagara games, five have been decided by either one or two points, and eight have been decided by six points or less.
- Jadin Collins-Roberts has nine offensive rebounds in his last two games, a 22-to-3 assist-to-turnover ratio in his last four games, and is shooting .568 from the field in his last 16 games.
- Marist's +20 rebounding margin against Canisius on Feb. 21 was its largest since being +21 at Rider on Feb. 6, 2014.
- Marist clinches a first-round bye in the MAAC Championships with a win plus a loss by any of the following on Sunday: Iona, Sacred Heart, Manhattan.
- Marist heads back to the road for its first MAAC contest against Sacred Heart on Friday, Feb. 28.
- Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.
