{"id":152877,"date":"2026-03-04T21:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152877\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:05:21","slug":"womens-basketball-heads-down-to-atlantic-city-for-first-round-matchup-with-ninth-seeded-marist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152877\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Basketball Heads Down to Atlantic City For First Round Matchup With Ninth-Seeded Marist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     Game #30: #9 Marist Red Foxes\u00a0vs. #8 Manhattan Jaspers<br \/>\nThursday, March 5, 2026 | 12:00 PM<br \/>\nJim Whelan Boardwalk Hall | Atlantic City, N.J.<br \/>\nWatch:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/WGqI8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shorturl.at\/WGqI8<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLive Statistics: <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/4M64v\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shorturl.at\/4M64v<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nInternational Feed:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/LM2JU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shorturl.at\/LM2JU<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTickets:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/6xnOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shorturl.at\/6xnOM<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nChampionship Central:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/31CO7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shorturl.at\/31CO7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. &#8211;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Entering the 2026 MAAC Championship in Atlantic City, the #8 Manhattan Jaspers look to get a first round win against the Red Foxes from #9 Marist. 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 15.4 points a night, including a Division I high of 30 points at Iona. Her scoring average puts her in fourth place across the MAAC. Senior guard Hana M\u00fchl has helped spread the rock, with a nightly average of 4.4 holding second 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 1.5 average on blocks putting her in second place across the MAAC, while the latter&#8217;s 8.3 rebound average puts her in fourth. The Jaspers will look to take care of business before the top-seeded Bobcats from Quinnipiac await them on Friday (Mar. 6).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scouting the Opposition:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u2022After three consecutive losses to open 2025-26, the Marist Red Foxes have since stumbled to a 8-12 record in the MAAC standings.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Marist has dropped four of their last five games, including an overtime loss to the Jaspers by the final score of 66-61 on Feb. 19.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022The Red Foxes are led by Freshman and Senior guards Justine Henry and Lexie Tarul, who combine for an output of 24.8 points per game.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Two other consistent members of the starting lineup in Senior guard Jackie Piddock and forward Ciara Croker have combined for an additional 13.3 ponts a night, with the latter being the team&#8217;s second-leading rebounder with 5.5 boards.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Sophomore guard Kasey Bretones has been a newly inserted member of the starting lineup, filling in the role of the injured fellow Sophomore guard Danielle Williamsen. She has scored a total of 12 points in her last three games starting.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Marist was selected to finish in fourth place in this year&#8217;s edition of the MAAC Preseason Poll, five spots above where they ended up.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022After hovering just above .500 in the conference slate at 11-9 in 2024-25, the Red Foxes went into the MAAC Championship as the fifth-seeded team.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022In Atlantic City, Marist played Mount St. Mary&#8217;s (MD) for the second consecutive game in the quarterfinals, losing 68-65 after a missed jumper in the final seconds.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022This will serve as the 70th matchup between Marist and Manhattan, with the two sides splitting their regular season series 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>\nLast Five Meetings vs. Red Foxes:<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marist Leads 43-26<\/p>\n<p>2\/19\/26&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..MAN 66-61<\/p>\n<p>1\/3\/26&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.MAR 62-57<\/p>\n<p>12\/21\/24&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;MAR 58-51<\/p>\n<p>3\/7\/24&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;MAR 49-48<\/p>\n<p>1\/25\/24&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.MAN 60-54<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Game #30: #9 Marist Red Foxes\u00a0vs. #8 Manhattan Jaspers Thursday, March 5,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-152877","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\/152877","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=152877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}