Pictured Above: Redshirt junior forward Tim Graham goes up for two of his career-high 10 points (photo by Adrienne Terzuoli)

Postgame Press Conference

Highlights

Staten Island, NY – Wagner sophomore forward Nigel Jackson scored 14 points to lead four players in double figures but it wasn't enough to offset a hot-shooting day from Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) preseason favorite Rider as the Broncs earned an 89-65 win at the Spiro Sports Center on Saturday.
 
With the loss, the Seahawks fall to 2-4 on the season while Rider improves to 2-1.
 
Rider's Jordan Allen led all scorers with 24 points, Dimencio Vaughn had 19, while Frederick Scott and Tyere Marshall added 10 points apiece for the visitors.
 
For Wagner, Jackson's 14-point afternoon, which is one shy of his career high, came on 5-of-11 shooting and was keyed by 4-of-9 accuracy from three-point range. Three Seahawks finished with 10 points apiece in redshirt senior guard Romone Saunders, redshirt junior forward Tim Graham, and freshman guard Jonathan Norfleet, with the latter two being career highs.
 
The 6-6 Graham, a transfer from Northwest Kansas Technical Junior College, playing in his second game as a Seahawk after sitting out the 2017-18 season, provided a 17-minute spark off the bench with his 10 points coming on 4-of-9 shooting, which included a pair of three-point jumpers, to go with three rebounds, two blocks and one steal.
 
Norfleet, meanwhile, notched his career-high 10-point effort in his first career start as the quick, 6-1 Virginia Beach, VA native shot 3-of-7 from the floor while also distributing a career-high four assists in a productive and efficient 23 minutes of action.
 
Another first-year Seahawk, junior guard Jeff Coulanges, also made his first career start and finished with eight points, which came on the heels of a 10-point, 10-rebound effort last time out vs. NJIT. Redshirt senior forward AJ Sumbry added eight points and a team-high six rebounds.
 
Rider shot 51 percent from the floor in the contest, highlighted by a blistering 46 percent (11-of-24) from beyond the arc. The tall, physical and athletic Broncs out-rebounded Wagner, the Northeast Conference's (NEC) top rebounding team, by a 43-27 count, while holding a 37-18 edge in points in the paint..
 
Wagner returns to action on Friday, November 30 when the Seahawks travel to our nation's capital to meet the American University Eagles of the Patriot League in a 7:00 p.m. tip.

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