| Saint Francis Probable Starters |
| Pos. |
No. |
Name |
Ht. |
Wt. |
Yr. |
PPG |
RPG |
FG% |
Note |
| G |
0 |
Cam Gregory |
6-5 |
165 |
So. |
13.1 |
2.7 |
41.9 |
Averaging 17.0 ppg at home |
| G |
2 |
Aaron "Ace" Talbert |
6-0 |
185 |
Fr. |
9.5 |
1.7 |
46.6 |
Averaging 13.8 ppg at home |
| G |
14 |
Bobby Rosenberger III |
6-5 |
205 |
Fr. |
7.7 |
3.6 |
36.5 |
Four 10+ point games in PA (two in Loretto) |
| F |
5 |
Eli Wilborn |
6-8 |
215 |
Fr. |
8.6 |
7.2 |
56.2 |
Tied for NEC lead in offensive rebounds |
| F |
32 |
Aidan Harris |
6-7 |
205 |
Fr. |
3.1 |
4.1 |
43.9 |
Five+ rebounds in last three games |
| Off the Bench |
| Pos. |
No. |
Name |
Ht. |
Wt. |
Yr. |
PPG |
RPG |
FG% |
Note |
| G |
1 |
Braylen Blue |
6-5 |
180 |
Fr. |
2.6 |
0.1 |
63.6 |
One of 10 players to score 10+ points in a game in 22-23 |
| F |
3 |
Miles Webb |
6-8 |
190 |
So. |
3.5 |
2.3 |
37.3 |
Five points, four rebounds, two blocks, two assists vs. SHU |
| G |
4 |
Carlos Lopez, Jr. |
6-2 |
170 |
Fr. |
7.1 |
1.7 |
33.0 |
Three-straight 10+ point games at home |
| G |
11 |
Chris Moncrief |
6-6 |
190 |
So. |
2.8 |
1.4 |
38.9 |
Scored eight points at home vs. Niagara on November 29 |
| 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. |
1.7 |
1.0 |
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. |
5.3 |
3.3 |
47.6 |
Nine points against Wagner |
| F |
22 |
Ryen Gresko |
5-11 |
170 |
Fr. |
0.0 |
1.0 |
0.0 |
Had a rebound in collegiate debut vs. Franciscan |
| G |
23 |
Wisler Sanon II |
6-4 |
190 |
So. |
3.4 |
1.9 |
31.9 |
Career-high in points happened at DeGol Arena last year |
| 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. CCSU (FULL GAME NOTES PDF)
FRANKIES TIDBITS IN A FLASH
• Saturday's game between Saint Francis and CCSU marks the 52nd meeting in the all-time series dating back to the 1994-95 campaign.
• The Red Flash holds a 28-23 advantage in the matchup including 19-8 at home.
• The two teams split the regular season series in 2022-23 with each team winning on its home floor before the Frankies downed the Blue Devils 83-69 in Loretto in the NEC Quarterfinals.
• Under head coach
Rob Krimmel, the Loretto program is 17-6 against CCSU including 11-2 at DeGol Arena.
• The only time the Blue Devils won on the Frankies home floor under the coach was 2016-17 and 2020-21 during the COVID-19 season when teams played two-game series at one location.
• In a season filled with milestones for Krimmel, CCSU holds one of the 12th-year head coaches first milestone after Saint Francis defeated the Blue Devils 67-60 on January 3, 2013 in Loretto, for his first win as a head coach.
• Krimmel earned his 150th career win with a 62-61 win at Lehigh on November 29 and just served at the helm for his 350th career game as a head coach at Wagner on January 6.
• Dubbed as "Mr. Saint Francis" by Ryan Peters on the Wagner broadcast, Krimmel has been a part of nearly 800 games as a player, assistant coach or head coach with the Red Flash.
• Krimmel has one more milestone that he can set in the regular season, needing three more NEC wins for 100 league victories in his 12 seasons.
• The Red Flash is 8-3 in NEC home openers under Krimmel and 23-19 since the inception of the league in 1981-82.
• Saint Francis was also 2-2 in circuit home openers with Krimmel as a player and 7-5 when he was an assistant coach to register a 17-10 record in his first 27 years in the first NEC game at DeGol Arena.
• The Frankies are 3-1 versus the Blue Devils in league home openers after also tangling in 2004-05, 2006-07, 2012-13 and 2022-23.
• It marks the fourth time the Loretto team has opened the NEC slate at home against the same team in consecutive seasons, joining St. Francis Brooklyn (1999-00, 2000-01), Monmouth (2010-11, 2011-12) and Wagner (2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16).
• Wagner is the team that has been the most frequent inaugural home game in the circuit with eight games. CCSU will be the opponent for the fifth time to tie St. Francis Brooklyn for the second-most NEC home-opponent foe to come to town.
• Just like the Motley Crue song, "Home, Sweet, Home," Saint Francis "is on its way" in league play when it has a winning home record in NEC games at home, sweet home.
• The Red Flash has posted a non-losing record in league play seven times under Krimmel and in all seven occasions the team had more wins than losses at home in the circuit schedule.
• During the 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2022-23 seasons, the Frankies combined for a 75-49 record in league with a 44-18 record at DeGol Arena.
• Conversely, in the four seasons that the team did not have a winning league record under the 12th-year head coach, the team is 13-23 at home.
• Prior to Krimmel taking over as head coach, Saint Francis had 13 non-losing seasons and in each of those seasons the squad also had a winning record at home in league play.
• Four times (1984-85, 1988-89,, 1998-99, 1999-00) the Red Flash had a winning home league record, but did not finish with a non-losing league season but 20 of the 24 times (83.3 percent) of the time the Frankies posted a winning mark in NEC play if he had a winning mark at home in the
circuit.
• If you are a fan of the movie
Dumb and Dumber, you know this sequence between Lloyd Christmas and Mary Swanson: "What do you think the chances are of a guy like you and a girl like me ending up together?... Not good... You mean, not good like one out of a hundred?... I'd say more like one out of a million.... So, you're telling me there's a chance. YEAH!"
• Saint Francis started the NEC slate 0-2, but you're telling me that we have a chance because there have been teams that start with two losses in league play and win the regular season, win the NEC Tournament or advance to the NEC Championship Game.
• In 2012-13 (Robert Morris) and 2020-21 (Wagner) both started 0-2 and won the NEC regular season. LIU also started the slate 0-2 and won the NEC Tournament to become the only team in the 42 years of the league to accomplish that feat in 2012-13, while three times (2002-03 [St. Francis Brooklyn], 2004-05 [Wagner], 2008-09 [Mount St. Mary's]) a team started 0-2 and advanced to the title bout.
AN SFU WIN WOULD
• Be the first NEC win of the year and the 98th league win of
head coach
Rob Krimmel's career
• Be the second-straight NEC home opening win for the Red Flash (also against CCSU) and improve to 9-3 under Krimmel in the first league game at DeGol Arena
• Improve the Frankies home record against CCSU under Krimmel to 12-2
• Improve league record to 1-2 for third time under Krimmel (2012-13, 2013-14) and avoid the third 0-3 start (2020-21, 2021-22)
LAST TIME OUT
• Wagner defeated Saint Francis 71-56 on January 6 in Staten Island.
• Freshman
Eli Wilborn paced the Red Flash with 14 points, 13 rebounds, three assists and three blocks. Fellow freshman
Bobby Rosenberger III added 11 points and seven rebounds. Sophomore
Gestin Liberis chipped in nine points in the loss, his second-highest point total in his career in league play.
ABOUT THE BLUE DEVILS
• CCSU, the preseason No. 2 team in the league, comes into the contest 7-7 overall and 1-0 in NEC play after defeating Stonehill 74-59 on January 4. With nine teams in the league each team has two byes and the Blue Devils had their first one on January 6 so will be playing their first game in 10 days.
• Graduate student
Allan Jeanne-Rose paced CCSU with 22 points and eight rebounds against the Skyhawks, while seniors
Kellan Amos (20 points) and
Jordan Jones (16 points) also found double figures.
• Allan leads the team in scoring (15.4 ppg.) and rebounds (4.5), while Jones (12.3 ppg.) and Amos (12.1 ppg.) are also averaging double figures.
TRENDING UP
• Freshman
Eli Wilborn has recorded at least five rebounds in each of his last seven games with five 10+ rebound games and also has posted double figures in points five times in that stretch. The freshman is averaging 10.8 points and 8.8 rebounds per game in that stretch, which also coincides with the start of the month of December.
• Willborn has registered consecutive double-doubles for the second time in his career and back-to-back 10+ point games for the third time. Wiborn leads the team with six 10+ rebound games, while the team has eight on the year with sophomore
Gestin Liberis and freshman
Aidan Harris each recorded one game. The Frankies have only have one home game with a player in double digits in boards when Liberis and Wilborn both had 10 caroms against Franciscan on November 22.
• Wilborn also continues to be a block machine with 30 in his last 13 games, including 10 games with at least two blocks with seven in his last eight tilts for a total of 21 in that span. Wilborn has five contests with three rejections and a career-high five blocks against Campbell in his last home game.
• Freshman
Bobby Rosenberger III has posted double figures in points six times this season and four times in the Keystone state, but only two of those games occurred in Loretto. The two games at home came in his last two games at DeGol Arena, while he also had a career-high 19 points at Penn State on November 14 and 11 points at Lehigh 15 days later. Rosenberger, who has 10+ points in three of his last four games, has also posted all four of his five-plus rebound games when he has scored double figures.
•
Sophomore
Cam Gregory had his career-long six-straight games with 10+ points snapped against Wagner on January 6. Gregory has been cooking at home this season with his five-best scoring outputs coming at DeGol Arena and is averaging 17.0 points per game at home. In his last four games in Loretto, the sophomore is averaging 19.0 points per game with 20-point performances against Niagara on November 25 and against Mount St. Mary's on December 15. Gregory is shooting 48.2 percent (41-for-85) from the field at home.
• Gregory, who has a team-best 10 games in double figures in points this season and 14 for his career, is the only player on the roster with a 10+ point game at DeGol Arena in league play with his 11 points against FDU on February 23.
• Freshman
Aaron "Ace" Talbert also enjoys the confines of DeGol Arena, averaging 13.8 points per game at home. The freshman has registered double figures in five of the six games in Loretto, including three-straight contests. Talbert is shooting 51.7 percent (31-for-60) from the floor and 45.5 percent (10-for-22) from behind the arc.
• Freshman
Aidan Harris has posted five or more rebounds in his last three games, including eight-board performances against Campbell on December 30 and at Sacred Heart on January 4. He is second to Wilborn with three games with at least eight boards this season.
• Liberis notched his second-most points in a league game against Wagner with nine points. The sophomore, who two 10+ point games this season, had a then career and NEC-best 10 points at LIU on February 18, 2023.
• Saint Francis has started games slow in the first half many times this season, but the majority of those times were because of poor shooting. However, the last two games the Red Flash combined for 29 turnovers in the opening stanza, which was the two-highest turnover marks of the season. The team has turned the ball over 10 or more times seven times this season in the first half, but only two times before NEC play began after Saint Francis played Penn State on November 14.
• Saint Francis has trailed by 20 points or more nine times this season, including five times since the team returned to playing other mid-major teams. The Red Flash rallied from 20-points down for the team's second biggest comeback under head coach
Rob Krimmel against American. In the three other games (Niagara [November 25], Mount St. Mary's [December 15] and Sacred Heart [January 4]), the Frankies cut it to a two-possession game against Niagara (five points) and Mount St. Mary's (six points) and seven points against the Pioneers at one point in the second half.
• The start of the season is also tough with the Red Flash playing teams that finished Top-5 in the NEC preseason poll in the first four games of the league slate:
- January 4 - Sacred Heart (preseason NEC favorite)
- January 6 - Wagner (preseason NEC No. 5)
- January 13 - CCSU (preseason NEC No. 2)
- January 15 - FDU (preseason NEC No. 3)
The fifth game is against LIU, the preseason No. 7 team, but the Sharks have started the league slate with two wins.
