2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game One
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (0-0, 0-0 CAA) at Yale Bulldogs (0-0, 0-0 Ivy League)
Monday, November 4, 2024 – 5:00 p.m.
John J. Lee Amphitheater, New Haven, Conn.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: ESPN+
 
QUICK BULLETS
- The Monmouth Hawks begin their 2024-25 Women's Basketball season with a road contest at Yale.
- New Head Coach Cait Wetmore makes her head coaching debut as the 10^th head coaching in Monmouth Women's Basketball program history.
- An entire new coaching staff plus six new student-athletes (five transfers, one freshman) make up the roster.
- Monmouth finished 2023-24 with 22 victories - one shy of tying a program record - and a WNIT Second Round appearance.
- It will be the third ever meeting between the Hawks and Bulldogs.
- Last season, MU won a program record 13 consecutive true road games before its season was ended at Duquesne in overtime.
- Graduate center Belle Kranbuhl, who ranks third all-time in program history in blocks (238), 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.
- Make the Hawks 1-0 for the second consecutive season.
- Be the Hawks' 14 road win in the last 15 tries.
- The first victory for MU over Yale.
- Be Monmouth's first win over an Ivy League opponent since Dartmouth on Dec. 5, 2021.

MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Yale are meeting for the third time in women's basketball competition.
- The last time these two teams met, Dec. 2, 2104, Yale defeated Monmouth 62-58 in New Haven.
- Sara English had 14 points and a double-double for MU.
- Monmouth led 27-25 at the half.
- Yale leads the all-time series, 2-0.
 
NEXT UP
- Monmouth will host Brown on Saturday, Nov. 9.
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege at 2:00 p.m.
- It will be the fourth meeting all-time between the schools.
- Brown leads the all-time series, 3-0.
- Brown won last season's meeting 59-58 in West Long Branch (Nov. 26, 2023).