FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The Saint Peter's men's basketball team continues MAAC play against Fairfield on Monday at Leo D. Mahoney Arena for its first road conference game of the season. The Peacocks played the Stags just once last season and defeated them 65-52 at home.
Both teams have jumped off to very different starts to conference play, with the Peacocks (5-5, 2-0 MAAC) taking down Canisius and Niagara while the Stags (8-5, 0-2 MAAC) fell to Manhattan and Merrimack. This will be Saint Peter's first MAAC game on the road and Fairfield's first MAAC game at home.
In Saint Peter's final nonconference game against Centenary, the team broke multiple records, including setting the largest margin of victory in program history. The Peacocks had seven players score in double figures while the squad as a whole totaled a season-high 27 assists. Saint Peter's will look to ride that momentum into their first appearance at Leo D. Mahoney Arena in nearly two years.
ABOUT THE FAIRFIELD STAGS
The Stags are led by the senior-freshman duo of Braden Sparks and Brandon Benjamin. Sparks brings experience to the squad and leads the MAAC in scoring per game, dropping 18.2 points a night. Benjamin is nearly averaging a double-double off the bench with 12.8 points and 9.8 rebounds per game. Fairfield is looking to pick up its first conference win of the season.
Fairfield is coached by Chris Casey, who is in his third season as head coach of the Stags.
NOTES
Brent Bland is averaging 16 points per game which ranks fourth in the MAAC…Bland also leads the conference in steals per game with 3.1…
Bryce Eaton is averaging 4.1 assists per game which ranks fifth in the MAAC…Against Centenary, the Peacocks won 116-50…the last time the Peacocks scored over 100 points in a game was 116 against Saint Elizabeth on Nov. 20, 2024…66 points was the largest margin of victory in Saint Peter's history…
Lucas Scroggins recorded the first double-double by a Saint Peter's player since
Mouhamed Sow on March 8, 2024…the last time six or more Saint Peter's players scored double-digits in a game was against FDU on Nov. 20, 2016.
