2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Eleven
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (4-6, 0-0 CAA) vs. American Eagles (0-9, 0-0 Patriot)
Saturday, December 21, 2024 – 4:30 p.m.
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, N.J.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloCollege/SNY
Play-by-play: Joe Vasile
Analyst: Jackson Heil
 
QUICK BULLETS
- Monmouth will go for a perfect 4-0 record in the month of December versus American on Saturday afternoon.
- Taisha Exanor was named the CAA Player of the Week on Monday. She had 17 points and 11 rebounds in the win over NJIT on Dec. 9.
- The game will come on the backend of a Monmouth doubleheader where the men play Fairfield at 1 pm.
- Damaris Rodriguez scored 27 points vs. Saint Peter's and surpassed the 2,000-point mark for her career.
- Rodriguez will be honored pregame for her achievement.
- 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 ranks first in the CAA with 4.4 blocks per game.
- Exanor ranks fourth in the CAA in rebounding (8.7/game).
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Be the fifth consecutive win for the Hawks.
- Improve MU to 5-6 on the season.
- Be the fourth home victory of the season.
- Make it a perfect 4-0 in December games for the Hawks.
- Improve MU to 4-1 in home games this year.
- Be Monmouth's second win over Patriot League opponent this season (MU defeated Lafayette on Dec. 1 at home, 60-54).
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and NJIT are meeting for the 7th time in women's basketball competition.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 4-0.
- American leads the all-time series, 4-2.
- The two teams last met last season. Monmouth won on the road, 72-60.
- Exanor (10), Clesca (9), Haynes (9), and Kranbuhl (8) each scored at least eight points for MU.
- The Hawks outrebounded the Eagles, 40-27.
- The Eagles have not been to West Long Branch since 2006.
 
NEXT UP
- Monmouth opens its CAA schedule versus Hofstra after the holiday break on Jan. 3.
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege, SNY and NBC Sports Philadelphia + at 7:00 p.m.
- It will be the 15th meeting all-time between the schools.
- Monmouth has not lost to the Pride since joining the CAA and has won seven straight in the all-time series dating back to 1998.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 10-5.
- The two teams last met once last season. Monmouth won on the road, 66-50, despite Hofstra finishing on a 10-0 run.
- Exanor played a team high 27 minutes and finished with 12 points.
- Hofstra shot just 28.1% from the field.
- The Pride last visited the OceanFirst Bank Center two seasons ago where the Hawks earned a hard-fought victory, 63-59.
- Only one of the 15 all-time meetings has gone to overtime (Nov. 21, 2000).