Game 19
Monmouth at Penn
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: Philadelphia, Pa. | the Palestra
Audio: Shore Sports Network [WOBM-AM 1160 & 1310] - Listen Live
Talent: Eddy Occhipinti '06 & Steve Bazaz '07
Monmouth Student Radio: WMCX - 88.9 FM
Talent: Gifford Gould & Alexis Swatt
Twitter: @MonmouthBBall | #FlyHawks | #MAACHoops
Monmouth-Penn Series History:
• Wednesday's game marks the seventh all-time meeting between Monmouth and Penn, which began during the 2002-03 season, won by the Quakers in the Asbury Park Convention Hall in January 2003.
• Monmouth, which lost to Penn in last year's home opener, posted its lone victory over the Quakers during the 2009-10 campaign, an 80-75 victory in the MAC.
• Monmouth is 5-20 all-time against institutions from the Ivy League, with the other four victories coming against Princeton. The Hawks are 0-1 versus both Brown and Columbia and are 0-2 against Harvard. Monmouth is 4-11 against Princeton.
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). The Hawks were off to a 4-0 start in league play, their best opening since beginning the 2004-05 league campaign at 7-0, a season Monmouth won the NEC Regular Season Championship.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
Believe. Compete. Succeed.
