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Legend Dominquez
Liz Brady '20

Men's Basketball Putting Streak on the Line

1/20/2020 5:42:00 PM

GAMEDAY (Jan. 21, 2020): The Engineers (12-2; 7-0) host league foe Bard College (0-13; 0-7) in their only home mid-week conference game of the season.

TWELVE STRAIGHT: Rensselaer has won each of its last 12 games, five of which have come in Troy ... The winning streak is RPI's longest since the 1990-91 squad won 18 in a row on its way to the NCAA Tournament ... The Engineers finished 20-5 that year.

BACK ON THE BUS: The Engineers travel to Vassar on Friday for a game at 7:30pm and to Ithaca on Saturday for a 4pm tip ... RPI then travels to Skidmore (Jan. 31) and Union (Feb. 1) the following weekend.

RECENTLY AGAINST BARD: Rensselaer is 7-3 in its last 10 games with the Raptors, including two straight wins after two consecutive losses.

LAST 10 IN TROY: RPI has won eight of its last 10 home meetings with Bard, including each of the last three at ECAV.

DECEMBER 11, 2019: In the first meeting between the two schools this season, a 76-46 Rensselaer victory, Mason Memmelaar led the way with 22 points and nine rebounds while chipping in with three assists and three steals ... Also in double figures for the Engineers, who led 35-17 at halftime, were senior Mitchel Wayand (14 points) and freshman Will Rubin (12) ... Stefanos Psarras led Bard with 15 points, while Elliot Harris scored 10.

LAST SEASON: Rensselaer and Bard split the 2018-19 matchups with both teams winning on its home court for the second straight season ... The Raptors won 68-54 on January 12 and the Engineers posted an 84-77 win at ECAV on February 8.

RPI LAST WEEKEND: The Engineers played their first league weekend on the road and defeated RIT 72-59 and Hobart 65-53 ... Against the Tigers, Mason Memmelaar led the way with 11 points and eight rebounds ... Jonny Angbazo tallied 15 points off the bench, while Will Rubin chipped in 13 points ... The next day at Hobart, a late scoring run by the Engineers proved to be the difference ... Patrick Mahoney led all scorers, finishing with 20 points, while Dom Black notched 15 points and a game-high nine rebounds ... Angbazo contributed nine points off the bench.

WEEKLY HONOR ROLL: Rensselaer junior Patrick Mahoney was named to the Liberty League Weekly Honor Roll after he averaged 13.5 points and 6.5 rebounds - both team-highs in two games, both wins ... He also contributed two assists and three steals in 29.5 minutes per contest ... Bard's Stamatis Koulouris was also selected ... Koulouris averaged 16 points and eight rebounds per game over the course of the weekend. 

THIRD STRAIGHT FOR BARD: The Raptors are playing their third of seven consecutive Liberty League road games ... They dropped games at Union (77-38) and RIT (80-67) this past weekend.
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