2022-23 Monmouth Basketball Game Twenty-Two Preview

Monmouth Hawks (1-20, 0-8 CAA) at North Carolina A&T Aggies (11-12, 6-4 CAA)
Saturday, January 28, 2023 - 2:00 p.m. ET
Corbett Sports Center, East Greensboro, NC

TV
FloSports
Play-by-Play: Spencer Turkin
Analyst: Walter Johnson

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

QUICK BULLETS
-MU is playing at A&T for the first time
-Monmouth played its tightest CAA game to date the last time out, falling by three
-Jack Collins tied a career-high with four steals at UNCW Thursday
-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
-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
-make MU 2-0 all time against North Carolina A&T
-be Monmouth's second road win this season
-snap a 12-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 1-8 in the CAA

NOTES FROM THE LAST TIME OUT...
-Klemen Vuga grabbed a career-best 10 rebounds.
-MU had five players with seven points or more, with nobody in double figures for the first time since December 1, 2018.
-Monmouth won the second half, 27-23.
-Jack Collins tied a career-high with four steals, all in the first half.
-Collins' seven rebounds is the second most in a game this season for the freshman.
-Monmouth outrebounded UNCW, 35-29.
-MU was better off turnovers, 17-16.
-The Hawks topped UNCW on the move, 16-8.

MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
-This is the second ever meeting between the schools
-This marks Monmouth's first ever visit to East Greensboro
-The only meeting took place on November 30, 2014, a 76-61 Monmouth win as part of the Barclays Center Classic 
-In that meeting, Deon Jones led all scorers with 27 points for Monmouth
-Monmouth and North Carolina A&T are both in their first season in the CAA

VUGA REBOUNDING IT
Klemen Vuga posted his first career double-digit rebounding game at UNCW, finishing with 10 caroms to go with nine points, narrowly missing his first career double-double.

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 had a streak of eight straight games, the longest stretch of his career and longest for any Hawk this season, in double digits snapped at UNCW. 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.