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2024–25 RIDER MEN’S BASKETBALL

QUICK FACTS LOCATION LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ NICKNAME BRONCS COLORS CRANBERRY, WHITE, GRAY YEAR FOUNDED 1865 PRESIDENT DR. GREG DELL’OMO ATHLETIC DIRECTOR DON HARNUM HOME ARENA ALUMNI GYMNASIUM (1650)

MEN’S ROSTER No. Name

Cl.

Pos.

Ht.

Wt.

Hometown/High School/Previous School

0 2 5 7 8

Zion Cruz

Jr.

G/F 6-5 195 Trenton, NJ/Donda (DePaul/Pratt CC)

Ruben Rodriguez

So.

G 6-2 175 Reading, PA/Reading

Jay Alvarez

R-Sr.

F F F

6-5 210 Waynesboro, PA/Waynesboro (Houston Christian)

Ife West-Ingram

So.

6-7 210 Philadelphia, PA/Abington Friends

Tank Byard

Sr.

6-8 215 Atlantic City, NJ/Atlantic City (Alcorn State)

11 12 13 14 20 21 22

Flash Burton Andre Young

Fr. Jr. Jr. Jr. Fr. Fr. Jr. Jr. Gr. Gr.

G 6-3 165 Philadelphia, PA/Cardinal O’Hara

G 5-11 160 Mableton, GA/Pebblebrook (Troy/Gulf Coast St.) G 6-3 185 Albany, GA/Osborne (Appalachian St./Chipola) C 7-2 230 Casablanca, Morocco/Miami Dade (FL St./Ark. St.) G 6-1 185 Charlottesville, VA/Fork Union Military Academy

Zocko Littleton Jr.

Alaaeddine Boutayeb

Maurizio D’Alessandro

Cole McCabe

F

6-8 220 Miami Beach, FL/IMG Academy

Jack McFadden

G 6-4 190 Endwell, NY/Maine-Endwell

31

Tyriek Weeks

F F

6-6 200 Warwick, RI/Pilgrim (Miami Dade College)

33 35

Tariq Ingraham

6-9 245 Philadelphia, PA/Bonner-Prendergast (Wake Forest)

T.J. Weeks, Jr.

G 6-4 190 Warwick, RI/Bishop Hendricken Catholic (UMass)

Head Coach: Kevin Baggett (Saint Joseph’s ’89, 13 th Season) Associate Head Coach: Dino Presley (Kutztown ’93, 10 th Season) Assistant Coaches: Geoff Arnold (Saint Joseph’s ’86, 6 th Season), Kim Waiters (Robert Morris ’11, 4 th Season)

PLAYER TO WATCH T.J. Weeks Jr. has been the Broncs’ leading scorer in 2024-25 while playing his sixth collegiate season, including the first four at UMass. After averaging 10.0 points per game in his first season in the Cranberry & White, Weeks Jr. has averaged nearly 14.0 points per game in 2024-25, including an accurate three-point shot. Weeks Jr. has also been the Broncs’ leader in steals and free-throw percentage, while ranking second in blocked shots. NOTABLE ALUMNI Jason Thompson ‘08 was a 2008 NBA Lottery Pick and completed a 13-year pro-playing career, in-cluding the first eight in the NBA with the Sacramento Kings, Golden State Warriors and Toronto Raptors. Thompson was an Associated Press Honorable Mention All-America, US Basketball Writers’ Association District II Player of the Year, the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-District 3 selection, MAAC Player and Defensive Player of the Year at Rider. He compiled 2,040 points and a Rider record 1,171 rebounds, including a single-season best 412 in 2007-08. His 235 career blocks and 91 rejections in 2007-08 are program records. He’s a Rider Athletics Hall of Fame inductee and his No. 1 jersey is one of two Rider men’s basketball numbers retired all-time (Darrick Suber, No. 4).

Special Assistant to the Head Coach: Mike Jordan (Penn ‘00, 1 st Season) Director of Basketball Operations: Maguire Fein (Rider ‘23, 1 st Season)

HEAD COACH KEVIN BAGGETT Two-time MAAC Coach of the Year Kevin Baggett is in his 13 th season as the Rider Head Coach. By season’s end, he projects to have become just the fourth coach in league history to achieve 200 wins at MAAC institutions and just the second to accomplish it at a single school. ‘Baggs' is a two-time MAAC Coach of the Year (2015 and 2018) and has been a finalist for three dif-ferent National Coach of the Year Awards - the Ben Jobe Award, the Joe B. Hall Award and the Hugh Durham Award. Baggett has led his players to 26 All-MAAC honors and two MAAC Sixth Player of the Year awards. The total increases to 36 in his time at Rider, including six seasons as an assistant coach. His 19 wins in 2012-13 were the most by a Rider rookie head coach since Bob Greenwood led Rider to a 20-win season in 1962-63. Rider has made five National Postseason Tournament appearances under Baggett, including an NIT appearance in 2017-18, CBI bids in 2012-13 and 2014-15, and a CIT berth in 2013-14.

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