2022-23 Monmouth Basketball Game Twenty-One Preview

Monmouth Hawks (1-19, 0-7 CAA) at UNC Wilmington Seahawks (16, 6-3 CAA)
Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. ET
Trask Coliseum, Wilmington, NC

TV
FloSports
Play-by-Play: Mike Vaccaro 
Analyst: Marty Feurer

RADIO
Monmouth Digital Network
Play-by-Play: Matt Harmon

QUICK BULLETS
-MU is playing at UNCW for the first time
-Myles Foster comes off a career-best 22 points against Hampton
-Foster's 22 points is the most by a Hawk in a single game this season
-Andrew Ball netted a career best 16 points against Charleston
-Jarvis Vaughan made his season debut and scored his first basket vs. Charleston
-UNCW and MU met on Dec. 28
-Myles Foster has scored in double figures in eight consecutive games
-Jakari Spence had 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

A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
-be Monmouth's first win as a member of the CAA
-mark MU's first win in three tries all time against UNCW
-be Monmouth's second road win this season
-snap an 11-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 1-7 in the CAA

NOTES FROM THE LAST TIME OUT...
-Myles Foster netted a career-high 22 points.
-Myles Foster netted the fourth 20+ point game by a Hawk this season, and his second of the year.
-Jack Collins grabbed a career best nine rebounds.
-Myles Foster scored in double figures for the eighth game in a row.
-Jack Collins posted his ninth game in double-digits this season.
-Myles Foster posted a career high with three steals.
-Jakari Spence tied a career high with three steals.
-Klemen Vuga scored in doubles for the fifth time this season.
-Monmouth started the same lineup for the second game in a row.
-MU and Hampton are both in their first season in the CAA.
-This was the fourth matchup all time between Monmouth and Hampton, and the first played on either schools campus.
-Monmouth outrebounded Hampton, 36-34.
-Monmouth was better off turnovers, 23-15.
-MU was better in the paint, 44-28.
-The Hawks topped Hampton in second chance points, 21-5.
-The Pirates shot 58% from the field and 53% from three.

MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
-This is the third ever meeting between the schools
-This marks Monmouth's first ever visit to Wilmington
-The teams met in the CAA opener on December 28 this season, Monmouth's first ever CAA contest
-The first meeting was Monmouth's fourth ever game as a Division I program on December 3, 1983. Monmouth had yet to earn a win as a DI program
-UNCW won that 1983 meeting 46-41 as part of the Olde Fayetteville Classic in Fayetteville, NC

FOSTER SCORING IT
Myles Foster scored 22 points, a career high and the most by a Hawk in a game this season against Hampton. He has now scored in double figures in eight straight games, the longest stretch of his career and longest for any Hawk this season. Overall, he has 15 games in double digits this year.

PHELPS JOINS STAFF
Derrick Phelps, a teammate of King Rice's at North Carolina, was added to the coaching staff this week as the Special Assistant to the Head Coach. Phelps, who was an assistant coach at Monmouth from 2011-14, previously made coaching stops at Columbia, San Francisco and Washington State.

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. His 2-1 assist-turnover ratio is the best on the team.