2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Two
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (0-1, 0-0 CAA) vs. Brown Bears (0-0, 0-0 Ivy League)
Saturday, November 9, 2024 – 2:00 p.m.
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, N.J.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloSports
Play-by-Play: Maria Marino
Analyst: Dominiqué Patrick
 
QUICK BULLETS
- Monmouth hosts Brown in their 2024-25 Women's Basketball home opener at the OceanFirst Bank Center.
- New Head Coach Cait Wetmore makes home 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.
- MU is coming off a three-point loss to Yale.
- The Hawks shot 0-of-11 from three-point range in the loss, the first time they've been held without a made three since 2021.
- It will be the fourth meeting all-time between the Hawks and Bears.
- Last season, MU won a program record 13 consecutive true road games before its season was ended at Duquesne in overtime.
- Belle Kranbuhl ranks third all-time in program history in blocks (240) 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.
- Make the Hawks a perfect 4-0 in home openers over the last four seasons.
- The first victory for MU over Brown.
- 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 Brown are meeting for the fourth time in women's basketball competition.
- The last time these two teams met, Nov. 26, 2023, where Brown defeated Monmouth 59-58 in West Long Branch.
- Jaye Haynes had 10 points while Taisha Exanor scored seven.
- Monmouth led 36-22 at the half.
- Brown leads the all-time series, 3-0.
 
NEXT UP
- Monmouth will travel to George Mason on Tuesday, Nov. 12.
- The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ at 7:00 p.m.
- It will be the fifth meeting all-time between the schools.
- The all-time series is tied at two wins apiece.
- Monmouth won the last meeting 57-55 in Fairfax (Nov. 27, 2004).