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| Saint Francis Probable Starters |
| Pos. |
No. |
Name |
Ht. |
Wt. |
Yr. |
PPG |
RPG |
FG% |
Note |
| G |
4 |
Juan Cranford, Jr. |
6-3 |
205 |
Fr. |
9.7 |
2.9 |
50.5 |
Scored 10+ points in seven of last eight |
| GÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â |
5 |
Daemar Kelly |
6-5 |
195 |
So. |
6.2 |
2.5 |
39.1 |
Looking for first 10+ point game at home |
| G |
11 |
Riley Parker |
6-2 |
195 |
Jr. |
10.6 |
3.6 |
47.1 |
Ranks fourth in assists in the NEC |
| G |
14 |
Bobby Rosenberger III |
6-5 |
205 |
So. |
12.0 |
4.7 |
45.8 |
Averaging 15.0 ppg and 9.5 rpg against Stonehill |
| F |
31 Â Â Â |
Valentino Pinedo |
6-8 |
230 |
Jr. |
8.8 |
6.3 |
51.4 |
Scored 12+ points in last three games |
| Top Players Off the Bench |
| Pos. |
No. |
Name |
Ht. |
Wt. |
Yr. |
PPG |
RPG |
FG% |
Note |
| G |
0 |
Chris Moncrief |
6-6 |
190 |
Jr. |
3.3 |
2.1 |
44.2 |
Has five+ rebounds three times at home this season |
| GÂ |
2 |
Ace Talbert |
6-0 |
185 |
So. |
10.2 |
2.8 |
35.4 |
Averaging 12.8 ppg in last four games played |
| F |
3 |
Miles Webb |
6-8 |
190 |
Jr. |
6.5 |
4.3 |
60.7 |
Leads the team in field goal percentage |
| G |
7 |
Jeremy Clayville |
6-0Â Â Â Â |
160 |
Fr. |
9.4 |
2.1 |
42.7 |
Leads team with 35 baskets from three |
| G |
15 |
Victor Payne |
6-4 |
190 |
Fr. |
2.4 |
1.5 |
40.0 |
Made NEC debut against CCSU |
| FÂ Â Â Â |
21 |
Gestin Liberis |
6-9 |
225 |
Jr. |
--- |
--- |
--- |
Averaged 11.0 ppg and 7.7 rpg in last four games played |
| G |
23Â Â Â Â |
Wisler Sanon II |
6-4 |
190 |
Jr. |
--- |
--- |
--- |
Averaging 10.5 ppg and 5.5 rpg in last two games played |
| F |
32 |
Aidan Harris |
6-7 |
205 |
So. |
2.5 |
1.8 |
56.5 |
Season-high seven points vs. Lehigh |
SELECT GAME NOTES VS. STONEHILLÂ (FULLÂ GAME NOTES PDF)
FRANKIES TIDBITS IN A FLASH
• If you feel a little bit like Yogi Berra and are experiencing "déjà vu all over again" because of the schedule, you are not alone. It is the second time Saint Francis has opened Northeast Conference play at DeGol Arena against CCSU and Stonehill in three years after facing the same schedule in 2022-23.
• The scheduling of CCSU and Stonehill in back-to-back home games also has an interesting head coach
Rob Krimmel milestone wrinkle effect. Krimmel won his first-ever game and NEC win against the Blue Devils on January 3, 2013, and then, with the win against the Skyhawks last season in Loretto, registered his 100th NEC win on February 10, 2024.
• The Red Flash and the Skyhawks are playing for the fifth time since Stonehill joined the league in 2022-23. The series is split at two games apiece after the home team has won all four games. Last year, the home team won 72-63 at both places.
• How rare is it that the Frankies played two games against the same team with the same score? Well, just looking at NEC play, it has never happened before. In 1983-84, Saint Francis downed St. Francis Brooklyn 86-78 and 86-79, and in 1988-89, the Red Flash defeated Monmouth 96-89 and then 95-89 for a one-point game in both of those contests. Twice, Saint Francis played against an opponent in back-to-back games to the same score, but in different seasons. The Red Flash won 67-63 in the 2019 NEC Tournament at home against Bryant, and then the first game the following season, the Bulldogs won by that exact score in Springfield. Consecutive trips to Brooklyn to face LIU had the Frankies fall to the then Blackbirds in both seasons by a score of 72-70 in 2005-06 and 2006-07.
• For the second straight game, two coaches lead their alma maters, who play each other. Krimmel for the Red Flash, a 2001 graduate, and
Chris Kraus, a 2006 graduate of Stonehill, will be facing off. The NEC has four coaches leading their alma mater ties for the most by one conference in NCAA Division I.
• It will be the second time this season the Frankies will face a head coach who graduated from Stonehill after facing Georgetown's Ed Cooley, a 1994 graduate of the Massachusetts school.
• Saint Francis opened the NEC schedule 0-1 for the 24th time in program history and the eighth time under Krimmel. The squad also opened the conference season with a loss in 2013-14, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2023-24 in the last 13 years.
• Four times, the team came back to win the second NEC game of the year (2013-14, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2019-20), while the team also started 1-1 in 2012-13 and 2018-19. Five times after the Red Flash opened the NEC slate by splitting the first two games, it registered a winning season. Only the 2012-13 campaign did not result in a winning conference mark.
• Saint Francis has also started the year 0-2 under Krimmel in 2016-17, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2023-24.
• The Red Flash wraps up its three-game homestand versus Mercyhurst on Friday.
AN SFU WIN WOULD
• Open the season 1-1 for the sixth time in program history and the first since the 2019-20 season
• Improve to 3-0 at home against Stonehill in the all-time series
• Be the first win in 2025
• Be the team's fifth win in Loretto
• Move head coach Rob Krimmel within two wins of 100 victories at DeGol Arena in his career
• Avoid starting the NEC slate 0-2 for the fifth time under Krimmel and the second consecutive season
ABOUT THE SKYHAWKS
• Stonehill comes into the contest 8-8 overall and 0-1 in Northeast Conference play after falling 76-69 at Mercyhurst on Friday.
• The Skyhawks had a 238 ranking for the strength of schedule for its non-conference slate. Stonehill went 6-0 at home, including an 88-74 win against Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference preseason favorite Quinnipiac on December 1. Conversely, the Skyhawks are 1-7 on the road with its lone win away from Merkert Gymnasium a 70-65 victory at Lafayette on December 29.
• Todd Brogna paced Stonehill against the Lakers with 19 points. Louie Semona (17 points) and Hermann Koffi (12 points) also registered double figures in the NEC opener.Â
• Josh Morgan powers the Skyhawks with 13.3 points per game. Brogna leads the team in rebounding (6.0 rpg.) and averages 12.5 points per game.
LAST TIME WE MET
• Stonehill defeated Saint Francis 72-63 on February 24, 2024 in North Easton, Mass.
• Gestin Liberis led the Red Flash with 12 points, while Ace Talbert and Carlos Lopez, Jr. each had 10 points, and Bobby Rosenberger III and Eli Wilborn both hauled in double-figure rebounds.
• Rosenberger registered a career-high 22 points in the meeting in Loretto on February 10 and then registered his first career 10 rebound game in the tilt on the road.
• Tony Felder paced the Skyhawks with 30 points, and Jackson Benigni chipped in 10 points. Felder was at Loretto early this season after transferring to Radford but did not play in the game.
• The home game against Stonehill was unique for a couple of reasons. Jorden "J-Money" McClure was honored before the game for the 10th anniversary of his signing a National Letter of Intent with Saint Francis men's basketball on February 11, 2014. It was also head coach Rob Krimmel's 100th career NEC win.
LAST TIME OUT
• Saint Francis lost 74-59 in the NEC opener to preseason favorite CCSU on Friday.
• Juniors
Riley Parker and
Valentino Pinedo each had 12 points, while Pinedo had a team-high eight boards.
• Sophomore
Bobby Rosenberger III finished with eight points and six rebounds, while freshmen
Juan Cranford, Jr. and
Jeremy Clayville had eight points.
• It was the fourth time the Red Flash opened the season against the NEC preseason favorite after playing FDU (2016-17), Wagner (2021-22), and Sacred Heart (2023-24) along with the Blue Devils after the NEC coaches predicted those teams to win the league.
TRENDING UP
• Junior
Valentino Pinedo has grabbed five rebounds in the last eight games he has played at least 20 minutes. In his return from injury, he only played 10 minutes against Maryland on December 17. In that stretch, he has a pair of eight-carom games and two 10+ rebound games against Power 5 teams. The junior has led the team in rebounding in six of those contests. On the offensive end, the Spanish native registered at least eight points in seven of those games, including five double-figure point games. Pinedo is averaging 10.8 points and 7.4 rebounds per game in his last eight tilts and 13.3 points and 6.0 rebounds per game in his previous three.
• Fellow junior
Riley Parker has a similar streak to Pinedo, but with assists. The captain from down under has dished out at least three dimes in his last eight games with four games with five assists, seven assist performances, and a career-high 10 helpers against Penn State Shenango on December 4. He has handed out at least five dimes five times (say that five times fast), including a streak of three straight in the three-game home start early this year. He has helped the Red Flash Men Of Work score, but "you better run, better take cover," because Parker has also been scoring the rock. The junior has scored at least nine points in nine of his last 11 games, averaging 13.5 points per game in that stretch with four games of 15 points and three 20-point contests. His 23 points against Lehigh on November 26 are the most scored by a Flash player this season.
• Freshman
Juan Cranford, Jr. had his streak of 10+ point games ended on Friday after finishing the game with eight points against CCSU. He averaged 14.7 points per game during his seven-game 10+ point scoring streak with three games of more than 15 points and a career-high 21 points at Maryland to become the second freshman to register 20 points in a contest against a Power 5 team. During this stretch, the freshman shot 61.6 percent (37-for-60) from the field and 42.8 percent (15-for-35) from behind the arc and was almost like Petula Clark because he loved to go downtown at least three times in the last four games in his seven-game streak with a career-high five treys at Robert Morris on December 21.
• Sophomore
Bobby Rosenberger III loved to play Stonehill last year, averaging 15.0 points and 9.5 rebounds per game in the two games. In both games, he narrowly missed his first career double-double, finishing the game in Loretto on February 10, 2024, with a career-high 22 points and nine rebounds before tallying eight points and a career-best 10 boards in the February 24, 2024, meeting in Massachusetts. He has four 20-point games in his career, including two this season, and has seven tilts with at least eight boards. Rosenberger has hauled at least seven boards all four times he scored 20 points in a game, and on five of the six occasions, the sophomore has finished with at least 19 points.Â
• Freshman
Jeremy Clayville has registered at least seven points in 12 of the 14 games he has played, with nine games with nine points and six 10+ point tilts. The freshman leads the team with 35 baskets from behind the arc, with several that probably have been launched from Ebensburg or Altoona, depending on which way the Frankies are shooting.Â
ON THIS DATE
• Saint Francis is 10-17 on this date, including 5-4 at DeGol Arena and 5-11 in Northeast Conference play.
• Six times, January 5 was the first NEC game of the year: 1988-89, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1999-00, 2004-05, 2005-06. Also, in 2011-12, this was the restart date of NEC play after playing two games in December.
• This season is the 70th Anniversary of the 1954-55 team that advanced to the National Invitation Tournament semifinals. That season, the Frankies registered an eight and a nine-game winning streak. Since that date, Saint Francis has posted winning streaks of eight games only four times: 1961-62, 1990-91, 2018-19 and 2019-20. During the team's only NEC Tournament Championship season, on this date in 1991, the Red Flash defeated St. Francis Brooklyn 98-88 for the third win in the winning streak. The 98 points marked the most scored in the streak and the second most that season (100 points vs. Delaware State on December 15, 1990). The eight-gamer would end in Brooklyn on January 26, 1991, with a 105-96 loss to the Terriers. Saint Francis would defeat St. Francis Brooklyn 96-70 in the NEC Semifinals on February 28, 1991.
FUN FACTS
• The Frankies played Marist on this date in 1988-89 in Loretto. The significance of this game is that it was the first game Saint Francis played in the newly branded Northeast Conference after playing under the umbrella of ECAC Metro from 1981-88.Â
• Saint Francis played on the road 11 times on January 5 from 1949-88. The only home in that span was an 84-79 win against Widener in 1981. The Red Flash has played 16 NEC games since 1989, with an even split of eight at home and eight on the road.
