2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Five
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (0-4, 0-0 CAA) vs. Penn State Nittany Lions (4-0, 0-0 Big Ten)
Sunday, November 17, 2024 – 1:00 p.m.
Bryce Jordan Center, University Park, Pa.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: BTN+
 
QUICK BULLETS
- Monmouth plays in its third game of the week and third of a four-game road swing at Penn State on Sunday.
- New Head Coach Cait Wetmore, the 10^th leader in Monmouth Women's Basketball program history, looks for her first win.
- Ella Farrelly had a career high 11 points and Divine Dibula tied her best with nine at UMass on Friday.
- MU is coming off back-to-back 23-point road losses.
- 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 third meeting all-time between the Hawks and Nittany Lions.
- 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 1-4 on the season.
- The first road victory of the season.
- Improve MU to 1-3 in road games this year.
- Be Monmouth's first win over a high major since beating St. John's 74-69 at home on Nov. 10, 2023.
- Be Monmouth's first win over a Big Ten opponent since defeating Northwestern 58-53 on Nov. 24, 2001.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Penn State are meeting for just the third time in women's basketball competition.
- Penn State leads the all-time series, 2-0.
- The two teams last met Dec. 9, 2009, where the Nittany Lions were victorious, 67-42 in Pennsylvania.
- Monmouth had more offensive rebounds than Penn State, 21-16.
- Monmouth played Penn State in its first ever game as a Division I program on Nov. 27, 1982.
- Penn State won that contest 97-57.
 
NEXT UP
- Monmouth finishes a four-game road trip at Sacred Heart on Thursday, Nov. 21.
- The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ at 5:30 p.m.
- It will be the 35th meeting all-time between the schools.
- Sacred Heart leads the all-time series, 20-14.
- The former NEC rivals have met three times in a season thrice (two regular season matchups + postseason).
- Sacred Heart won last season's meeting, 59-50, in West Long Branch on Nov. 15, 2023.
- The road team has won each of the past four times.