The Rider Broncs women's basketball team is the

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team that represents

Rider University Rider University is a private university in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, United States. It consists of three academic units: the Norm Brodsky College of Business, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which includes Westminster Choir Coll ...

Lawrenceville, New Jersey Lawrenceville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) within Lawrence Township in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

. The school's team competes in the

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History

Rider's first season in women's basketball was in 1925, though they had periods where they did not play basketball, such as 1926–27, 1930–32, 1958–59, 1962–63, and 1966–1974. They played in the East Coast Conference (ECC) from 1982 to 1992 and the Northeast Conference from 1992 to 1997 before joining the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) in 1997. They won their first regular season conference championship in 2018-19.

Postseason appearances

The Broncs have made two postseason appearances, doing so in 2017 and 2019 in the WNIT. They have a 0–2 record.

Drafted Players

The program's all-time leading scorer

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was drafted 29th overall by the

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in the 2019 WNBA draft. She has since played 15 games with the

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and

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in two seasons.

References

External links

* Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference women's basketball {{NewJersey-basketball-team-stub