2022-23 Monmouth Basketball Game Twenty Preview

Monmouth Hawks (1-18, 0-6 CAA) vs. Hampton Pirates (3-16, 0-7 CAA)
Saturday, January 21, 2023 - 2:30 p.m. ET
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, NJ

TV
SNY/FloSports
Play-by-Play: Eddy Occhipinti
Analyst: Dave Calloway

QUICK BULLETS

-MU is playing its second straight at home
-Andrew Ball netted a career best 16 points against Charleston
-Jarvis Vaughan made his season debut and scored his first basket vs. Charleston
-This is the first time MU and Hampton will meet as CAA foes
-Myles Foster has scored in double figures in seven consecutive games
-Jakari Spence comes off a career high six assists against Charleston
-Andrew Ball had career highs in points (13) and rebounds (9) vs. Stony Brook
-After Andrew Ball started vs. UNCW, every Hawk has a start this season
-Myles Foster is the only Hawk to start every game this season
-Eight of 10 Hawks that have seen action this season have a double-digit game

A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
-be Monmouth's first win as a member of the CAA
-mark MU's third win in four tries over Hampton
-be Monmouth's first home win this season
-snap a 10-game skid for the Hawks
-be the Hawks 22nd program win over a current CAA school
-be Monmouth's first win of the calendar year of 2023
-be the Hawks second win of the season
-register as the 184th win of Rice's career
-move MU to 1-6 in the CAA

NOTES FROM THE LAST TIME OUT...
-Andrew Ball netted a career best 16 points.
-Jarvis Vaughan made his season debut, scoring his first basket at the 5:00 mark of the second half.
-Monmouth led 31-28 at the half.
-Jakari Spence dished out a career-best six assists.
-Klemen Vuga's three blocks marked a career best.
-MU posted a positive assist-turnover ratio for the third time this season.
-Myles Foster scored in doubles for the seventh game in a row.
-This marked the fourth ranked opponent to ever visit West Long Branch and first since 2012.
-MU held Charleston to 28.6% in the opening half.
-The Hawks were better off turnovers, 14-9.
-MU topped Charleston in the paint, 32-14.

MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
-This is the fourth ever meeting between the schools
-This is the first ever meeting between the teams on either schools campus
-The schools met for the first time in 2003, a Monmouth win as part of the Paradise Jam in the Virgin Islands
-MU and Hampton met in the 2006 NCAA Tournament play-in game, a Hawks victory
-The most recent meeting came in 2009, a Hampton victory in the World Vision Chal lenge at the University of Wyoming 
-Hampton is one of four schools debuting in the CAA this season, joining Monmouth, Stony Brook and North Carolina A&T
-Monmouth is playing its seventh ever CAA contest

WELCOME BACK, JARVIS
After missing the first 18 games of the season with injury, Monmouth's lone senior, Jarvis Vaughan made his debut against Charleston. He played 11 minutes and made his first basket of the season on a baseline floater.

BALL IS BALLING
Freshman Andrew Ball, making his sixth consecutive start, posted a career-best 16 points against Charleston on 7-14 from the floor. He made two triples, and grabbed five rebounds in the strong showing.

SPENCE DISHES IT
Point guard Jakari Spence posted a career-best six assists in the contest with Charleston, tying the most assists in a game by a Hawk this season. He did so next to just two turnovers.

VUGA SAYS NO
Klemen Vuga registered three rejections against Charleston, a career-high and also the most in a game by a Hawk this year.

FOSTER SCORING IT
Myles Foster has scored in double figures in seven straight games, the longest stretch of his career and longest for any Hawk this season. Overall, he has 14 games in double digits this year.