| Saint Francis Probable Starters |
| Pos. |
No. |
Name |
Ht. |
Wt. |
Yr. |
PPG |
RPG |
FG% |
Note |
| G |
0 |
Cam Gregory |
6-5 |
165 |
So. |
10.2 |
2.0 |
42.3 |
Scored 10+ points in three of last five games |
| G |
11 |
Chris Moncrief |
6-6 |
190 |
So. |
4.5 |
2.5 |
40.9 |
Hauled in three rebounds in each of last four games |
| G |
14 |
Bobby Rosenberger III |
6-5 |
205 |
Fr. |
6.0 |
2.5 |
46.7 |
Current NEC Rookie of the Week |
| F |
5 |
Eli Wilborn |
6-8 |
215 |
Fr. |
6.8 |
5.3 |
51.4 |
First career double-double vs. Franciscan (14 pts, 10 rebs) |
| F |
32 |
Aidan Harris |
6-7 |
205 |
Fr. |
4.5 |
2.2 |
47.4 |
Career-high 10 points on Monday |
| Off the Bench |
| Pos. |
No. |
Name |
Ht. |
Wt. |
Yr. |
PPG |
RPG |
FG% |
Note |
| G |
1 |
Braylen Blue |
6-5 |
180 |
Fr. |
4.2 |
0.2 |
63.6 |
Had career-high 11 points vs Franciscan |
| G |
2 |
Aaron "Ace" Talbert |
6-0 |
185 |
Fr. |
7.7 |
1.3 |
62.1 |
Averaging 17.0 ppg in last two games |
| F |
3 |
Miles Webb |
6-8 |
190 |
So. |
3.8 |
2.5 |
32.3 |
Reached 10+ points twice this season |
| G |
4 |
Carlos Lopez, Jr. |
6-2 |
170 |
Fr. |
3.3 |
1.3 |
20.6 |
Posted eight points in collegiate debut at UCLA |
| G |
13 |
Blaze Angellotti |
6-4 |
195 |
Fr. |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
Made collegiate debut vs. Franciscan on Nov. 22 |
| G |
15 |
Aaron Humphrey, Jr. |
6-7 |
210 |
Fr. |
2.0 |
1.3 |
33.3 |
Career-high five points, four rebounds vs. Franciscan |
| G |
20 |
Brendan Scanlon |
5-8 |
175 |
So. |
-- |
-- |
-- |
Out for the year with a leg injury |
| F |
21 |
Gestin Liberis |
6-9 |
225 |
So. |
7.2 |
4.2 |
50.0 |
Has first career double-double (15 pts, 10 rebs) Wednesday |
| F |
22 |
Ryen Gresko |
5-11 |
170 |
Fr. |
0.0 |
1.0 |
0.0 |
Had a rebound in collegiate debut vs. Franciscan/span> |
| G |
23 |
Wisler Sanon II |
6-4 |
190 |
So. |
5.7 |
2.8 |
40.7 |
Had eight points vs Pitt Greensburg |
| G |
24 |
Keshawn McNeill |
6-1 |
180 |
R-Fr. |
0.8 |
0.5 |
33.3 |
Notched first career points (3) vs. Franciscan |
| G |
30 |
KJ Swain, Jr. |
6-0 |
155 |
Jr. |
2.0 |
0.0 |
50.0 |
Had two points in collegiate debut against Franciscan |
| G |
33 |
Will Helton |
6-4 |
175 |
Jr. |
-- |
-- |
-- |
Redshirting this season and will not play |
| F |
42 |
Daric Danchanko |
6-8 |
240 |
So. |
-- |
-- |
-- |
Redshirting this season and will not play |
SELECT GAME NOTES VS. NIAGARA (FULL GAME NOTES PDF)
FRANKIES TIDBITS IN A FLASH
• Saturday's meeting between Saint Francis and Niagara marks the 27th meeting in the all-time series dating back to the 1921-22 season.
• The Red Flash has won the last two meetings when the series was last renewed during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons to even the series at 13 games apiece.
• The two-game winning streak by the Frankies ended a four-game winning streak by the Purple Eagles, including an 86-69 win in 2012-13 for their last win in the series.
• Saint Francis head coach
Rob Krimmel currently sits at 149 win as a head coach, needing one win to reach 150 victories.
• He would become the 181st active head coach with 150 wins in his career and the second to reach the milestone this season after Central Michigan's Tony Barbee reached the mark earlier this season.
• Currently there are 783 head coaches that have ever reached 150 career wins.
• Krimmel has registered 60.4 percent of his wins at DeGol Arena and fitting could win his 150th game as a head coach while coaching his 150th game in Loretto at DeGol Arena.
• Saint Francis has scored 100 points 12 times under Krimmel in his 12 seasons as a head coach. The Red Flash is 8-3 in the next games after scoring 100 points, including 9-1 in the next game the team plays at DeGol Arena.
• The Frankies lost for the first time in the following home game after scoring 100 points last season with a 66-55 loss to American on November 26, 2022.
• It will be the second time Niagara will be an opponent for the Red Flash after it reached 100 points in a game. The Loretto team defeated Niagara in the last meeting between the two teams in 2018-19 after downing Bloomsburg 113-59 three days prior.
• Keith Braxton scored the final four points in the last meeting in the last 26 seconds against the Purple Eagles for a 79-75 and finished the game with 25 points. He also hit the game-winning basket in a 71-70 win against Wagner in the NEC Semifinals in the 2016-17 season in the game that followed the only time the team scored 100 points in the postseason against Bryant in 2016-17.
• The number three is a significant number for the schedule this season. The Red Flash have three, three-game homestands and also have two three-game road trips with one starting after the game against Niagara.
• The squad also plays three teams from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference over the next 21 days (or three weeks), starting with Niagara on Saturday. Saint Francis will also travel to Iona (December 10) and host Mount St. Mary's (December 15).
• The Red Flash will play a team from the MAAC for the first time since the last two meetings against the Purple Eagles.
• Prior to the series with Niagara, the last MAAC school the team has faced was Iona in 2008-09.
• The Red Flash is 8-15 all-time against the MAAC with a 7-5 record in Loretto.
• Saint Francis is 69-93 against teams from New York state in non-conference play, but has a winning record against the Empire State in Loretto with a 34-16 record.
• Last season, the Red Flash lost at Saint Bonaventure in the season opener and then fell to Cornell at home.
• The Bonnies frequent the Saint Francis schedule the most by a team from New York, appearing on the schedule 43 times, while the Buffalo area teams are next on the list with Canisius (29 times) and Niagara (26 times) combining for 55 games against the Frankies.
• The last win against a team from the Empire State was win against Niagara in 2018-19 with the victory the previous season in Buffalo against the Purple Eagles being the last win in non-conference against a team in New York.
• Le Moyne, who joined the NEC this season, has been on the schedule five times, while Saint Francis played Marist 31 times when the Red Foxes were in the NEC.
• The Red Flash begins a three-game road trip with two games against the Patriot League at Lehigh on November 29 and at American on December 2.
• With the exception of the COVID-19 season, the Frankies have battled both American and Lehigh every season in Krimmel's 12 seasons as head coach.
AN SFU WIN WOULD
• Be head coach
Rob Krimmel's 150th career win in his 150th game as at DeGol Arena as a head coach
• Be the squad's third-straight win to be the Frankies first three-game winning streak since defeating St. Francis Brooklyn (February 16, 2023), LIU (February 18, 2023) and FDU (February 23, 2023) consecutively last season
• Be the team's third-straight win against Niagara
LAST TIME OUT
• Sophomore
Gestin Liberis (15 points, 10 rebounds) and freshman
Eli Wilborn (14 points, 10 rebounds) combined for 29 points and 20 rebounds to power Saint Francis past Franciscan 107-54 on Wednesday. Both the points and rebound totals were career bests for the duo.
• Freshmen
Aaron "Ace" Talbert (19 points) and
Braylen Blue (11 points) also registered career highs, while sophomore
Miles Webb also finished with double figures with 10 points.
• It marked the first time since February 18, 2023 the Frankies had five players score double figures and the first time since that game against the Sharks and the previous game against St. Francis Brooklyn (February 16, 2023) that the squad had at least four 10+ point scorers in consecutive games.
• The 107 points were the 12th time Saint Francis scored 100 points under head
Rob Krimmel and the eighth most points scored at DeGol Arena in the history of the building.
• The 24 assists were the fifth-most helpers the team has handed out under Krimmel. It was the 16th time under the head coach the squad has registered at least 20 assists in a game.
• Saint Francis finished the game shooting 60.9 percent to connect on 60 percent of its shots for the first time since accomplishing the feat against St. Francis Brooklyn on January 20, 2023. It was the 10th time under Krimmel the team has hit 60 percent from the floor and the fourth highest percentage under the coach.
ABOUT THE PURPLE EAGLES
• Niagara comes into the game 0-3 after falling 92-73 at Hawai'i on November 16.
• Senior
Braxton Bayless fueled the Purple Eagles with 20 points, while graduate student Kwane Marble, Jr. added 11 points
• Freshman
Ahmad Henderson, II powers the team with 16.3 points and 3.0 rebounds per game, while Bayless is also averaging double figures with 10.7 points and 1.3 rebounds per game.
TRENDING UP
• Freshman
Aaron "Ace" Talbert is averaging 17.0 points per game in his first collegiate games at DeGol Arena after registering 15 points on Monday against Pitt Greensburg and then establishing another new career high with 19 points against Franciscan on Wednesday.
• Talbert is also shooting 14-for-17 from the floor, 3 of 4 from both 3-point range and the foul line in his last two games.
• A 20-point scorer continues to allude Saint Francis after having a different player register 19 points in each of the last three games. Freshman
Bobby Rosenberger III, the current Northeast Conference Rookie of the Week, started the trend against Penn State on November 14 before sophomore
Cam Gregory had a career-best 19 points on Monday leading the way to Talbert's 19 points on Wednesday.
• Freshman
Eli Wilborn notched his first career double-double with a career-high 14 points and 10 rebounds. The Connective native is averaging 9.8 points and 7.0 rebounds per game in his last four games. He has started three of the four games in that stretch and is averaging 11.0 points and 7.3 rebounds per game as a starter.
• Wilborn also has all seven of his blocks in the last four games, which are the fifth-most rejections by a freshman under head coach
Rob Krimmel.
• Sophomore
Gestin Liberis also had a career night with his first career double-double after finishing the game on Wednesday with 15 points and 10 rebounds. It was Liberis' second double-figure point performance this season and third of his career. The sophomore registered 12 points in the season opener at UCLA on November 6.
• Liberis and Wilborn became the first two players of the 2023-24 iteration to register a double-double this season and on the team. The last time the Frankies had a player with a double-double was in the regular season finale last season against Wagner on February 25, 2023, while the last time two players turned the trick in the same game was also against Franciscan on November 15, 2021.
• Sophomore
Miles Webb notched his second career 10+ point game on Wednesday, finishing with exactly 10 points. Webb had a career-high 11 points at San Francisco on November 9 to reach double figures for the first time in his career.
• Freshman
Braylen Blue became the seventh player to reach double figures this season and he finished the game by going 4-for-4 from the floor and 3 of 3 from behind the arc. He is now 4-for-11 on the year from the floor and 6 of 10 from long range.
