2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Six
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (0-5, 0-0 CAA) at Sacred Heart Pioneers (1-3, 0-0 MAAC)
Thursday, November 21, 2024 – 5:30 p.m.
William H. Pitt Athletic & Convocation Center, Fairfield, Conn.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: ESPN+
 
QUICK BULLETS
- Monmouth finishes its four-game road trip with an evening game at Sacred Heart on Thursday.
- New Head Coach Cait Wetmore, the 10^th leader in Monmouth Women's Basketball program history, looks for her first win.
- Damaris Rodriguez scored 17 points at Penn State, the second time she hit that mark this season.
- Ella Farrelly had a career high 11 points and Divine Dibula tied her best with nine at UMass.
- MU is coming off a loss at Penn State.
- 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 35th meeting all-time between the Hawks and Pioneers.
- 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.
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Be Cait Wetmore's first win as the Hawks head coach.
- Improve Monmouth to 1-5 on the season.
- The first road victory of the season.
- Improve MU to 1-4 in road games this year.
- Be Monmouth's first win over Sacred Heart since Nov. 13, 2022.
- Be Monmouth's first win over a MAAC opponent since defeating Rider 62-42 on Dec. 2, 2023.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Sacred Heart are meeting for the 35th time in women's basketball competition.
- Sacred Heart leads the all-time series, 20-14.
- 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.
- The former NEC rivals have met three times in a season thrice (two regular season matchups + postseason).
 
NEXT UP
- Monmouth begins a three-game homestand versus Saint Peter's on Tuesday, Nov. 26
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege, SNY, and NBC Sports Philadelphia at 4:30 p.m.
- It will be the 33rd meeting all-time between the schools.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 20-12.
- It will be the first meeting since Feb. 21, 2022, when the two teams met in MAAC competition.
- Monmouth has won 17 of the last 22 meetings dating back to 2005.
- Each of the past five meetings have been decided by 10 points or less.