| Saint Francis Probable Starters |
| Pos. |
No. |
Name |
Ht. |
Wt. |
Yr. |
PPG |
RPG |
FG% |
Note |
| G |
0 |
Cam Gregory |
6-5 |
165 |
So. |
9.7 |
1.0 |
34.6 |
Had season-high 12 points at Santa Clara |
| G |
4 |
Carlos Lopez, Jr. |
6-2 |
170 |
So. |
4.7 |
0.7 |
21.1 |
Posted eight points in collegiate debut at UCLA |
| G |
11 |
Chris Moncrief |
6-6 |
190 |
So. |
5.0 |
2.0 |
50.0 |
Matched career high of nine points at San Francisco |
| F |
3 |
Miles Webb |
6-8 |
190 |
So. |
3.7 |
3.3 |
25.0 |
Had a career-high 11 points at San Francisco |
| F |
5 |
Eli Wilborn |
6-8 |
215 |
So. |
3.7 |
3.0 |
50.0 |
Had a career-high nine points and five rebounds in first career start at Santa Clara |
| Off the Bench |
| Pos. |
No. |
Name |
Ht. |
Wt. |
Yr. |
PPG |
RPG |
FG% |
Note |
| G |
1 |
Braylen Blue |
6-5 |
180 |
Fr. |
3.3 |
0.3 |
50.0 |
Had career-high six points at Santa Clara |
| G |
2 |
Aaron "Ace" Talbert |
6-0 |
185 |
Fr. |
4.0 |
1.0 |
50.0 |
Had a career-high seven points at Santa Clara |
| G |
13 |
Blaze Angellotti |
6-4 |
195 |
Fr. |
--- |
--- |
--- |
Did not make the West Coast trip |
| G |
14 |
Bobtby Rosenberger III |
6-5 |
205 |
Fr. |
1.3 |
0.3 |
28.6 |
Notched first collegiate points (2) at San Francisco |
| G |
15 |
Aaron Humphrey, Jr. |
6-7 |
210 |
Fr. |
0.0 |
0.5 |
0.0 |
Made collegiate debut at UCLA |
| G |
20 |
Brendan Scanlon |
5-8 |
175 |
So. |
-- |
-- |
-- |
Out for the year with a leg injury |
| F |
21 |
Gestin Liberis |
6-9 |
215 |
So. |
1.0 |
2.0 |
0.0 |
Notched first collegiate points (2) at San Francisco |
| F |
22 |
Ryen Gresko |
5-11 |
170 |
Fr. |
-- |
-- |
-- |
Did not make the West Coast trip |
| G |
23 |
Wisler Sanon II |
6-4 |
180 |
So. |
6.0 |
1.7 |
60.0 |
Had nine points at UCLA |
| G |
24 |
Keshawn McNeill |
6-1 |
180 |
R-Fr. |
0.0 |
0.3 |
0.0 |
Notched first career rebound at Santa Clara |
| G |
30 |
KJ Swain, Jr. |
6-0 |
155 |
Jr. |
-- |
-- |
-- |
Did not make the West Coast trip |
| F |
32 |
Aidan Harris |
6-7 |
205 |
Fr. |
3.0 |
2.3 |
30.0 |
Led team in rebounding at UCLA |
| G |
33 |
Will Helton |
6-4 |
175 |
Jr. |
-- |
-- |
-- |
Did not make the West Coast trip |
| F |
42 |
Daric Danchanko |
6-8 |
240 |
So. |
-- |
-- |
-- |
Did not make the West Coast trip |
SELECT GAME NOTES VS. PENN STATE (FULL GAME NOTES PDF)
FRANKIES TIDBITS IN A FLASH
• Tuesday's game between Saint Francis and Penn State marks the 13th meeting in the all-time series dating back to the 1949-50 season.
• It is the first meeting between the two schools since the season-opener of the 2012-13 season, which was also the first game as head coach for
Rob Krimmel, who grew up in State College.
• It will be sixth game between the two teams at the Bryce Jordan Center with the Red Flash looking for its first win in the arena.
• The last win for Saint Francis in the series was at Rec Hall with a 68-63 overtime win in the 1978-79 campaign. It was also the only win for the Frankies in State College in the series.
• It will be the 25th time Krimmel has faced a Power 6 opponent with wins against Pittsburgh and Rutgers on his resume.
• Krimmel is 1-5 against the Big 10. Along with the win against Rutgers, his team played Penn State, Maryland, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio State. The last time the Red Flash played a Big 10 opponent was last season at then No. 25 Ohio State on December 3, 2022.
• It will be the second Power 6 team the squad has played this season after falling 75-45 in the season opener at UCLA on November 6.
• Bill Walton was the color analyst for the Pac-12 Network game against the Bruins and was at both the team's practice on November 5 and shoot around on November 6. He talked to the team on November 5, and sang Happy Birthday to freshman
Aaron Humphrey, Jr., who shared a birthday with Walton despite the 52 year age difference. Krimmel found out that it was Walton's birthday after the practice on November 5, but present Walton with a cake and the team sang Happy Birthday at the shoot around practice on November 6.
• Saint Francis just traveled 5,987 miles (5,278 miles by plane and 709 miles by bus) for its last three games, but will only travel 63.1 miles down to Penn State and 126 miles round trip for its next contest at Penn State.
• The Red Flash left Loretto, Pennsylvania and traveled to Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall International (189 miles by bus) for Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday, November 5 and played UCLA on November 6. The team then took a bus 378 miles to San Francisco on November 7, played at San Francisco on November 9, drove to Santa Clara on November 10 (47.8 miles), played Santa Clara on November 11. The team flew back to Pennsylvania to the Pittsburgh Invitational Airport via the San Jose Mineta International Airport on Sunday and drove home to Loretto (95.1 miles).
• Saint Francis is 337-313-2 against all the teams in the state of Pennsylvania. The Red Flash is 86-238 against NCAA Division I teams and 251-75-2 against non-NCAA Division I teams.
• For the second-straight season, the squad will play four fellow Keystone state teams this season. Along with Penn State, Saint Francis will host Pitt Greensburg (November 21) and Robert Morris (December 20), while also traveling to Lehigh (November 29).
• Krimmel is 22-22 against the state of Pennsylvania.
• Saint Francis has played its most games against teams from the western part of the state in program history. The Red Flash have tangled with Robert Morris the most in the state with 91 meetings. Duquesne has been on the squad 75 times, Saint Vincent 65 times, Westminster 43 times,
Geneva 39 times and Pittsburgh 30 times.
• The Red Flash, who opens the season with four-straight games on the road for the first time since 2003-04, makes its 2023-24 home debut and starts a three-game homestand against Pitt Greensburg on November 20 in the first-ever meeting between the two teams.
• Saint Francis will host an open practice at the Jaffa Shrine Center on Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. The Jaffa is were the Red Flash played games before the Maurice Stokes Athletic Center opened in 1972-73. Among the great Frankies that played at Jaffa were Maurice Stokes, Norm Van Lier and Kevin Porter in the Golden Era of basketball in Loretto.
AN SFU WIN WOULD
• Be the squad's first win of the season
• Be the squad's first win against Penn State since a 66-63 win in 1978-89
• Be the team's second win under head coach
Rob Krimmel against a Big 10 opponent (Rutgers, 2014-15) and third win against a Power 6 Conference team (Rutgers and Pittsburgh, 2020-21)
• Be Krimmel's 148th career victory
LAST TIME OUT
• Saint Francis lost 82-59 to Santa Clara on Saturday.
• Sophomore
Cam Gregory fueled the Red Flash with a season-high 12 points and four rebounds
• Freshman
Eli Wilborn added a career-best nine points and five rebounds in his first career start, while fellow freshmen Aaron "Ace" Talbert (seven points) and
Braylen Blue (six points) also had a career high in the final game in California.
TRENDING UP
• Sophomore
Cam Gregory registered his second-straight double-figure performance of the season and his team-leading sixth of his career.
• It marks the second time in his career that he has registered back-to-back 10+ scoring games after posting three-straight games toward the end of his freshman year. Gregory is averaging 10.6 points per game in his last five games away from DeGol Arena dating back to last season with four double-figure point games to his credit. The sophomore has notched five of his six 10+ games on the road, including a career-high 15 points at Ohio State on December 3, 2022.
• Freshmen
Eli Wilborn notched a career-best nine points, five rebounds and two blocks against Santa Clara. The points and the blocks are the most by a freshmen this season, while Wilborn and fellow freshman
Aidan Harris had five boards at UCLA on November 6.
• Saint Francis increased its point total in each of its three games on the West Coast, going from 44 points (at UCLA), 52 points (at San Francisco) and 59 points (at Santa Clara). In addition, the team turnover number has dropped from 21 to 16 to 14 in the three tilts.
KRIMMEL AND STATE COLLEGE
• Saint Francis and Penn State are only separated by 61.8 miles and head coach
Rob Krimmel grew up in State College before coming to Saint Francis.
• It is only the second time that the Red Flash will face Penn State in Krimmel's 12 years as a head coach and the first since Krimmel's head coaching debut on November 9, 2012.
• Krimmel's father, Bob, was a 1973 graduate of Penn State and spent 36 years as a student-athlete, swimming assistant/head coach and an assistant athletic director before coming to Saint Francis as the director of athletics for 11 years and retired in 2006.
•
Rob Krimmel followed a similar path to his father, but at Saint Francis. He is entering his 28th year associated with Saint Francis as either a student-athlete, assistant coach or head coach.
• The connection between father and son continues as both men met their wife while in college with Bob meeting Rob's mother at Penn State and Rob meeting his wife, Aileen, at Saint Francis.
