2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Seven
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Monmouth Hawks (0-6, 0-0Â CAA) at Saint Peter's Peacocks (0-5, 0-0 MAAC)
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 – 4:00 p.m.
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, N.J.
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Please find PDF of full notes attached.
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TV: FloCollege & NBC Sports Philadelphia
Play-by-play: Maria Marino
Analyst: Jackson Heil
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QUICK BULLETS
- Monmouth begins a three-game homestand with an in-state matchup versus Saint Peter's on Tuesday.
- New Head Coach
Cait Wetmore, the 10
th leader in Monmouth Women's Basketball program history, looks for her first win.
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Damaris Rodriguez has scored 17 points three times this season and sits two points shy of 2,000 for her career.
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Belle Kranbuhl and
Ella Farrelly each had a double-double at Sacred Heart, the first time a pair of Hawks achieved that feat in the same game since 2020.
- MU is coming off a seven-point loss at Sacred Heart.
- Forward
Taisha Exanor had a career high 21 points the last time the Hawks were at home - versus Brown on Nov. 9, including nine rebounds and five assists.
- MU ranks first in the CAA with 4.3 blocks per game.
- 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.
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A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Be
Cait Wetmore's first win as the Hawks head coach.
- Improve Monmouth to 1-6 on the season.
- Be the first home victory of the season.
- Improve MU to 1-1 in home games this year.
- Be Monmouth's first win over Saint Peter's since Feb. 7, 2022.
- Be Monmouth's first win over a MAAC opponent since defeating Rider 62-42 on Dec. 2, 2023.
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MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Saint Peter's are meeting for the 33rd time in women's basketball competition.
- Sacred Heart leads the all-time series, 20-14.
- 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.
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NEXT UP
- Monmouth continues the homestand versus Lafayette on Sunday, Dec. 1.
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege and NBC Sports Philadelphia at 2:00 p.m.
- It will be the 10th meeting all-time between the schools.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 6-3.
- The two teams met in Easton last season, with Monmouth cruising to a 68-47 win.
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Sandrine Clesca had a then-career high 14 points.
- Monmouth began the game on a 15-0 run and led 38-19 at the half.
- Monmouth has won five of the last six meetings dating back to 2010.
- Each of the past five meetings have been decided by 10 points or less.
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