Game 29
Monmouth at Iona
Date: Sunday, February 22, 2015
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: New Rochelle, N.Y. | Hynes Center
Broadcast: ESPN3 | WatchESPN app
Talent: Doug Sherman, Rob Kennedy & Kim Adams
Audio: Shore Sports Network [WOBM-AM 1160 & 1310]
Talent: Eddy Occhipinti '06 & Steve Bazaz '07
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Monmouth-Iona Series History:
• Sunday's game marks just the sixth all-time meeting between Monmouth and Iona, and the fourth contest as members of the MAAC.
• Iona leads the all-time series 4-1, which began during the 1982-83 season.
• The two schools met once each during the 82-83 and 84-85 campaigns.
• Iona, the 2014 MAAC Regular Season Champions, won both meetings last season, by an average of 18.5 points, but the Hawks returned the favor in the lone meeting so far this year, a 92-89 victory in the MAC on Dec. 7th.
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 got 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 currently has three players in action who have seen action in over 100 career games in Max DiLeo, Andrew Nicholas and Brice Kofane.
• 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.
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