{"id":123977,"date":"2026-02-05T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123977\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:35:07","slug":"womens-basketball-reaches-to-snap-recent-skid-at-rider-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123977\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Basketball Reaches To Snap Recent Skid at Rider Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     Game #22: Manhattan Jaspers at Rider Broncs<br \/>\nThursday, February 5, 2026 | 6:00 PM<br \/>\nAlumni Gymnasium | Lawrenceville, N.J.<br \/>\nWatch:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/cGwzG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shorturl.at\/cGwzG<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLive Statistics: <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/dPGVL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shorturl.at\/dPGVL<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nInternational Feed:\u00a0<a data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\" href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/DV6nF\" originalsrc=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/0SHS8\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/shorturl.at\/0SHS8. Click or tap if you trust this link.\">shorturl.at\/DV6nF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. &#8211;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On a recent three-game skid, the Manhattan Jaspers look to get back on the road Thursday against the Broncs from Rider. Leading Manhattan in the points category has been Senior guard <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/brianna-davis\/11804\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11804\" target=\"_blank\">Brianna Davis<\/a>, averaging 13.6 points a night, including a Division I high of 23 points and 11 rebounds on Jan. 19 against Rider. Her scoring average puts her in sixth place in the MAAC. On the defensive end, Graduate forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/colette-mulderig\/11818\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11818\" target=\"_blank\">Colette Mulderig<\/a> and Agar Farr\u00e9s Garcia have helped anchor that end of the floor, with the former&#8217;s 1.6 average on blocks putting her in second place across the MAAC, while the latter&#8217;s 6.8 rebounds have her in fifth. The Green and White will look to take care of business before finishing their brief road trip at Siena on Saturday (Feb. 7).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scouting the Opposition:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u2022After opening the 2025-26 season 2-12, the Rider Broncs have now secured two wins in the conference schedule, taking down both Siena on Jan. 8 and Sacred Heart on Jan. 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Prior to conference play, Rider&#8217;s two wins came against Lafeyette in their opening game of the season 65-68 and then on the road at LIU 58-43 on December 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Rider is led by Graduate forward Kristina Ekofo, putting up 11.5 points a night and scoring a career-high of 32 last time out against Mount, shooting 12-for-22.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Just behind her in the scoring column is Juior guard Aliya McIver (9.0) as well as leading the squad in assists (3.6), rebounds (6.1), and steals (2.3).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Four more players average 6.4 points or more per game, starting with Redshirt Junior guard Deb Okechukwu (7.2), Sophomore guard Emmy Roach (6.8), Freshman guard Alena Cofield (6.7) and Freshman guard Aina Perez Mesquida (6.4).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Rider was selected to finish 13th in this year&#8217;s edition of the MAAC Preseason Poll.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022In 2024-25, Rider finished the season with an overall record of 7-22, going 5-15 within the conference slate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Due to their placement at 12th place in the MAAC, the Broncs did not qualify for the 2025 MAAC Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022This will serve as the 58th matchup between Rider and Manhattan, with the Jaspers winning the first meeting this season inside Draddy 58-46.<\/p>\n<p>\nLast Five Meetings vs. Broncs:<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan Leads 37-20<\/p>\n<p>1\/19\/26&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..MAN 58-46<\/p>\n<p>1\/4\/25&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.MAN 81-40<\/p>\n<p>2\/10\/24&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;RID 58-54<\/p>\n<p>12\/16\/23&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;MAN 73-39<\/p>\n<p>3\/2\/23&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..MAN 69-52<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Game #22: Manhattan Jaspers at Rider Broncs Thursday, February 5, 2026 |&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-123977","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\/123977","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=123977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}