I want the ball in my hands at the end of the game.” “Coach believes in me and just that confidence of him believing in me gives me more confidence. “I’m a junior now and I’m ready for it,” he said. Powell’s heart doesn’t skip a beat in those situations. It’s nothing new, but you all are just seeing it now.”

He’s just another person on our team who is smart and is a leader. He’s not just a shooter, he can drive and make plays when we need him to. “I’ve always had trust in AP,” senior guard Dwight Murray Jr. Rider Men’s Basketball February 5, 2022 11 of Rider's last 13 points, 18 for the game. Then against Siena last Friday, he scored 11 of his 18 points in the final 4:09, including the dagger 3-pointer from the left corner that put the Broncs up 12 with 2:30 left.Īllen Powell is going off. He closed out a win over Canisius by driving to the basket and scoring in the paint on three consecutive possessions. Everybody is coming with that extra edge, it’s not just me.”īaggett hasn’t hesitated to put the ball in Powell’s hands down the stretch. “It comes to the point where you have to be tired of losing. “Knowing that we were a good team and we just kept losing was frustrating,” Powell said. In the last four - a stretch in which the Broncs are 3-1 and appear to finally be shaking off the inconsistency that plagued them for half the season - he’s posting 18 points on 53.4% shooting.īaggett said he asked Powell what was different. He’s averaging 14 points on 44.3% shooting overall and 43.8% on 3-pointers over the last 10 games. Powell prefers to let his play do the talking. “He’s not a very talkative person, so when he speaks you know everybody is listening.” Rider’s Allen Powell, left, drives past Quinnipiac’s Dezi Jones, right, during a MAAC men’s basketball game at Alumni Gymnasium. “He’s actually taken a huge leap in a leadership role with the team,” said graduate senior Dimencio Vaughn, who remembers Powell as a freshman just trying to find his place on a talented team that won 18 games and very well could have been on its way to a MAAC Tournament title if not for the COVID pandemic.

Dimencio vaughn