2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Four
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (0-3, 0-0 CAA) vs. UMass Minutewomen (1-2, 0-0 Atlantic 10)
Friday, November 15, 2024 – 6:00 p.m.
Mullins Center, Amherst, Mass.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: ESPN+
 
QUICK BULLETS
- Monmouth plays game two of a four-game road stretch at UMass on Friday.
- 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 23-point road loss to George Mason.
- Jaye Haynes hit a career-high four threes at GMU.
- Forward Taisha Exanor had a career high 21 points versus Brown, including nine rebounds and five assists.
- It will be the second meeting all-time between the Hawks and Minutewomen.
- 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 (241) 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 1-3 on the season.
- The first road victory of the season.
- Improve MU to 1-2 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 UMass are meeting for just the second time in women's basketball competition.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 1-0.
- The two teams last met last season on Nov. 19, 2023, where the Hawks were victorious, 74-62 in West Long Branch.
- Monmouth outshot UMass, 46.7% to 37.9%.
- MU dominated the glass, outrebounding the Minutewomen, 45-20.
- Three Hawks scored in double figures.
- Ella Farrelly had a career-high 11 rebounds.
 
NEXT UP
- Monmouth travels to State College, Pa. to take on Penn State on Nov. 17.
- The game will be broadcast live on Big Ten+ at 1:00 p.m.
- It will be the third meeting all-time between the schools.
- Penn State leads the all-time series, 2-0.
- Both games have been played at Penn State.
- Penn State won the last meeting, 67-42 (Dec. 9, 2009).