Game 9
Monmouth Hawks (4-4, 2-0 MAAC)
at Fordham Rams (2-4, 0-0 A10)
• Wednesday, December 10, 2014 • 7:00 p.m.
• Bronx, N.Y. | Rose Hill Gym
• Television: SNY TV
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Monmouth-Fordham Series History:
• Wednesday's game marks just the sixth all-time meeting between Monmouth and Fordham.
• Fordham leads the all-time series 3-2, which began during the 1985-86 season.
• The two schools met in back-to-back seasons in 85-86 and 86-87 with Fordham winning both contests.
• Monmouth's first win in the series came in the MAC, winning by 15, and the Hawks topped Fordham once again in the MAC last season.
Blue & White Bits:
• Monmouth, under fourth year head coach King Rice, embarks on its second season in the highly competitive Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC).
• Monmouth was selected sixth in this year's Preseason MAAC Coaches Poll, while junior guard Deon Jones was named to the Preseason All-MAAC Third Team.
• Senior guard Andrew Nicholas became the 20th player in Monmouth's Divsion I history to score 1,000 career points behind his 24-point performance against Towson (11/23), in which he tied a career-high with six made three-pointers.
• Last season, the Hawks came back from double-digit deficits in six of their wins on the year.
• The guard duo of Jones and Andrew Nicholas combined for 939 points last season, which tied for the sixth-highest combined single-season point total in program history.
• In 2014-15, Monmouth returns 88.9% of its scoring (1964/2208) from a season ago, and 82.0% of its minutes played.
• The Hawks return their top six scorers from last year's 11-21 team.
• Monmouth's returning sophomores combined for 77 starts, 833 points (26.0 ppg), 223 assists (6.9 apg) and 402 rebounds (12.6 rpg) as rookies in the Blue & White.
• Through its first seven games, including three at high-majors (West Virginia, Maryland, SMU), Monmouth allowed just 59.6 points per game to the opposition, including three at 50 points exactly. Last season, opponents scored at a 73.1 ppg clip against the Hawks.
• On Monday, December 8, Justin Robinson was named the MAAC Player of the Week, Monmouth's first MAAC Player of the Week recipient in its program/conference history. Last season, Josh James was named the MAAC Rookie of the Week twice.
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