POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – The Marist University men's basketball team (11-5 overall, 5-2 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) hosts Fairfield (11-7, 3-4) on Saturday at McCann Arena. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.
Both the Red Foxes and Stags enter the contest with three-game winning streaks.
Saturday's game is the first of four in eight days for the Red Foxes.
- Dean Darling (play-by-play), Steve Eggink (analyst), and William Rosen (sideline) will have the call on ESPN+.
- In-game updates will be available on X - @MaristMBB.
- Marist picked up its third straight win with a 71-49 road triumph at Rider on Jan. 11.
- Justin Menard led the Red Foxes with 15 points, followed by Rhyjon Blackwell with 12 and Elijah Lewis with 10.
- Jaden Daughtry had six points, a season-high 10 rebounds, three assists, and three steals.
- Jadin Collins-Roberts scored seven points, tied his season high with seven rebounds, and had a team-best four assists.
- Marist held Rider to .383 (18-for-47) shooting from the field and .167 (1-for-6) from three-point range.
- Marist is 7-1 at home this season with six straight wins. The Red Foxes are allowing a .357 field goal percentage, .229 three-point percentage, and 56.3 points per game at McCann Arena.
- A win would give Marist its 10th winning streak of at least four games in head coach John Dunne's eight-year tenure.
- Marist has had under 10 turnovers in three straight games, and is 7-0 this season when committing fewer than 10.
- Marist is 7-1 when Justin Menard scores in double figures, and 4-0 when he leads the team in scoring.
- Marist has held its last four opponents to .242 three-point shooting.
- The Stags are coming off a 98-62 home victory over Manhattan on Wednesday, Jan. 14. This was Fairfield's largest MAAC margin of victory in program history.
- At 17.5 points per game, Braden Sparks is the MAAC's leading scorer and has won MAAC Player of the Week two of the last three weeks.
- Brandon Benjamin leads the MAAC in rebounding (10.4 rpg) and is 10th in scoring (14.0 ppg). He has been named MAAC Rookie of the Week a conference-best four times this season.
- Declan Wucherpfennig is the reigning Co-MAAC Rookie of the Week, has earned the award two of the last three weeks, and is second in the conference in rebounding (7.9 rpg).
- Head coach Chris Casey is in his third season.
- Marist hosts Merrimack on Monday, Jan. 19.
- Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.
