2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Three
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (0-2, 0-0 CAA) vs. George Mason (2-0, 0-0 Atlantic 10)
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 – 7:00 p.m.
EagleBank Arena, Fairfax, Va.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: ESPN+
 
QUICK BULLETS
- Monmouth begins a four-game road stretch at George Mason on Tuesday.
- New Head Coach Cait Wetmore, the 10^th leader in Monmouth Women's Basketball program history, looks for her first win.
- An entire new coaching staff plus six new players (five transfers, one freshman) have joined the roster.
- MU is coming off a 20-point home loss to Brown.
- MU is 0-2 for the first time since 2020-21.
- Forward Taisha Exanor had a career high 21 points versus the Bears, including nine rebounds and five assists.
- It will be the fifth meeting all-time between the Hawks and Patriots, with the all-time series tied at two.
- Last season, MU won a program record 13 consecutive true road games before its season was ended at Duquesne in overtime in the WNIT Second Round.
- Belle Kranbuhl ranks third all-time in program history in blocks (240) and returns as a two-time All-CAA Defensive Team member.
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Be Cait Wetmore's first win as the Hawks head coach.
- Improve Monmouth to 1-2 on the season.
- The first road victory of the season.
- Improve MU to 1-1 in road games this year.
- Be Monmouth's first win over an Atlantic 10 opponent since UMass on Nov. 19, 2023.

MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and George Mason are meeting for the fifth time in women's basketball competition.
- The last time these two teams met, Nov. 27, 2004, where Monmouth defeated George Mason 57-55 in Fairfax.
- Two of the four meetings have been played at George Mason.
- The Patriots are 1-1 at home versus the Hawks.
- The all-time series is tied, 2-2.
 
NEXT UP
- Monmouth will travel to take on another Atlantic 10 program in UMass on Friday, Nov. 15.
- The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ at 6:00 p.m.
- It will be the second meeting all-time between the schools.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 1-0.
- Monmouth won the last meeting, 74-62, in West Long Branch (Nov. 19, 2023).