2024-25 Monmouth Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Twelve

Monmouth Hawks (1-10, 0-0 CAA) vs. Fairfield Stags (5-6, 1-1 MAAC)
Saturday, December 21, 2024 - 1:00 p.m. EST
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, NJ

TV

SNY/FloCollege
Play-by-Play: Eddy Occhipinti
Analyst: Chris Williams 

QUICK BULLETS
-Monmouth is playing its first home game of the season
-MU has won 13 in a row at home dating back to last season
-A win today would tie the program record for longest home win streak at 14 games
-Abdi Bashir is currently 12th nationally in scoring and second in three pointers made 
-Bashir has seven games with 20 or more points this year
-Monmouth knocked off its 10th high-major under King Rice vs. Seton Hall
-Monmouth leads the all-time series with Fairfield by a 13-7 margin
-Dok Muordar has made his first three career starts the last three games
-Bashir has scored 20+ in three straight
-Bashir's 38 points at Rutgers was a career-high and the second most for a Hawk under Rice
-Bashir was the first player in the nation to make 10 3's in a game this year

A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
-mark the second win of the season for Monmouth
-be the 209th win of King Rice's career
-make the Hawks 2-10 this season
-make the Hawks 14-7 all time against Fairfield
-start the Blue and White 1-0 at home this year
-move King Rice to 14-5 against the Stags
-tie the program record for the longest home win streak in program history

MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
-This is the 21st meeting between Monmouth and Fairfield
-It will mark the first meeting as non-conference foes since Monmouth left the MAAC in 2022
-Monmouth leads the all-time series 13-7
-King Rice is 9-3 all time against Chris Casey dating back to their time in the MAAC
-Monmouth has won the last two meetings with the Stags

NOTES FROM THE LAST TIME OUT
-Bashir netted 20+ points for the seventh time this season in 11 games.
-Bashir scored in double figures for the 10th time in 11 games this season.
-Cornelius Robinson III had four steals, a career-high and tying the most by a Hawk in a game this year. 
-Jaret Valencia notched his fourth game in double figures this season.
-Madison Durr posted his seven double-figure scoring game of the year.
-Monmouth started the same lineup for the third game in a row. 
-Excluding the COVID shortened 2020-21 season, Monmouth and Princeton met for the eighth year in a row. 
-Monmouth was better off turnovers, 18-11.
-The Hawks had three score in double figures.
-Monmouth blocked four shots to Princeton's two.

NEXT UP
Monmouth visits #2/2 Auburn on December 30 at 6:30 p.m. Eastern. That game will air on the SEC Network and on the radio via the
Monmouth Digital Network.