POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – The Marist men's basketball team (16-4 overall, 9-2 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) returns home on face Iona (10-13, 7-5) on Saturday night at McCann Arena. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.
Saturday's game marks the debut of the "Marist 87s" throwback uniforms, and all fans are encouraged to wear white. The first 500 fans will receive a throwback poster, and postgame autographs will be available.
- Dean Darling (play-by-play), Steve Eggink (analyst), and William Rosen (sideline) will have the call on ESPN+.
- Follow on X for in-game updates - @MaristMBB.
- Marist fell at Fairfield, 59-56, on Thursday.
- Josh Pascarelli led the Red Foxes with 15 points, followed by Jadin Collins-Roberts with 10.
- Collins-Roberts also had a team-high eight rebounds.
- Marist had a +10 advantage in rebounds (44-34).
- The Red Foxes held Fairfield to .315 (17-for-54) shooting from the field.
- The Gaels have won five of their last six, and are coming off a 70-67 overtime victory at Mount St. Mary's on Thursday in which Dejour Reaves hit a buzzer-beating three-pointer.
- Reaves averages 15.9 points per game, which leads Iona and ranks fifth in the MAAC.
- Yaphet Moundi averages a team-leading 6.7 rebounds per game, which is seventh in the MAAC.
- Moundi is the reigning MAAC Player of the Week following a 25-point, 20-rebound performance against Fairfield on Feb. 6.
- Moundi has recorded back-to-back double-doubles.
- Head coach Tobin Anderson is in his second season.
- A win would give Marist its first regular-season sweep of Iona since 2007-08.
- Marist has had a double-digit rebounding edge in three straight games (+19 at Canisius, +10 vs. Siena, +10 at Fairfield), and four times this season.
- Marist is 9-1 at home this season, and 18-5 the last two seasons.
- Elijah Lewis is averaging 14.3 points per game at McCann Arena this season. He has scored in double figures in nine of his 10 home games, including the last six.
- Jadin Collins-Roberts has raised his field goal percentage from .362 to .468 since Dec. 21.
- Marist enters the game with 799 wins in program history.
- Marist heads to the road for back-to-back games next weekend, starting at Siena on Friday, Feb. 14.
- Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.
