{"id":116165,"date":"2026-01-29T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116165\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:09:08","slug":"manhattan-hosts-cruz-and-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116165\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan hosts Cruz and Rider"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rider Broncs<\/a> (2-17, 1-9 MAAC) at Manhattan Jaspers<\/a> (8-14, 4-7 MAAC)<\/p>\n

Riverdale, New York; Friday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Rider takes on Manhattan after Zion Cruz<\/a> scored 22 points in Rider’s 71-61 loss to the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers.<\/p>\n

The Jaspers are 5-4 in home games. Manhattan ranks seventh in the MAAC with 9.1 offensive rebounds per game led by Anthony Isaac<\/a> averaging 3.3.<\/p>\n

The Broncs are 1-9 in conference play. Rider is sixth in the MAAC with 22.5 defensive rebounds per game led by Caleb Smith<\/a> averaging 5.4.<\/p>\n

Manhattan scores 75.0 points per game, 0.6 fewer points than the 75.6 Rider gives up. Rider’s 39.2% shooting percentage from the field this season is 8.0 percentage points lower than Manhattan has allowed to its opponents (47.2%).<\/p>\n

The Jaspers and Broncs meet Friday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jaden Winston<\/a> is shooting 47.5% and averaging 15.3 points for the Jaspers. Devin Dinkins<\/a> is averaging 11.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Cruz averages 1.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Broncs, scoring 12.5 points while shooting 29.1% from beyond the arc. Aasim Burton is shooting 41.4% and averaging 16.7 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Jaspers: 4-6, averaging 72.0 points, 30.0 rebounds, 12.5 assists, 7.2 steals and 2.3 blocks per game while shooting 41.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Broncs: 1-9, averaging 65.9 points, 31.9 rebounds, 12.4 assists, 4.2 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 41.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.5 points.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rider Broncs (2-17, 1-9 MAAC) at Manhattan Jaspers (8-14, 4-7 MAAC) Riverdale, New York; Friday, 7 p.m. EST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-116165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}