Rider Broncs NCAA Basketball News

Share the videos you've shot - it's easy! In this video commentary, Assembly members Anthony Chiappone , Pamela R. Lampitt , members of the Assembly Transportation, Public Works and Independent Authorities ...

Ahmad Nivins, the 6-9 senior monster from Saint Joseph's, is alive. After a disappointing junior season, Nivins exploded for 17 second-half points in his season debut, finishing with 25 points and 13 rebounds ...

Novar Gadson, a freshman making his collegiate debut in his home city, stared up at the Wachovia Center jumbotron, watching the final seconds tick off the clock.

Time after time, in big game after big game, Mike Ringgold would grow frustrated.

Can this year's Rider University basketball team be better than last year's? A year ago, the Broncs set a school record for wins and saw the greatest player in the school's history, Jason Thompson, become the ...

A trio of former NJ Hoopers received preseason honors from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

Grinning as he stepped to the podium yesterday at the ESPNZone, Tommy Dempsey said the first thing he planned to do after MAAC media day was to call Jason Thompson.

Rider led the MAAC in 3-point shooting last year, hitting 39.8 of its shots from behind the arc.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: A kid named Penn from Philly? How can you go wrong? The 6-7 Brandon Penn was one of two players from Philadelphia signed by Rider , with Tommy Dempsey bringing in a three-man class.

Cheri Jacobs wanted to hold her children, and eventually, her grandchildren, to a high standard.

"I did about 18 workouts, probably more than any of the other player. But I think it all worked out in the end." Rider University's coach Tommy Dempsey knew he discovered talent in 2004 when he saw Jason ...

William Tennent graduate Amanda Burke was recently named the Female Athlete of the Year for 2007-08 at Rider University.

Two feet separate 4-foot-11 Amanda Burke and 6-11 Jason Thompson, but yesterday they stood together as Rider named them its athletes of the year for the 2007-08 academic school year.

Thirty players were chosen between the time that Sacramento made its first and second selections in the National Basketball Association draft.

Jason Thompson admits he had some anxiety about his first Summer League practice with the Kings at the team's Sacramento practice facility.

First-round draft pick Jason Thompson out of Rider University signed a multi-year contract with the Kings, it was announced Tuesday by the team.

When Jason Thompson was just a high school sophomore and not playing very much his mother began to worry.

Jason Thompson knew or at least he had a good idea. Still to hear your name called as the 12th player taken in the NBA Draft was, as the Rider University big man called it, "heart- stopping." When the ...

AT 8:40 P.M., dozens of patrons in a reserved side room at Champps Americana restaurant in Marlton, N.J., exploded in the sort of spontaneous celebration that suggested that maybe they all learned they had won ...

Rider University forward Jason Thompson was taken with the No. 12 pick in the NBA Draft by the Sacramento Kings tonight.