2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Ten
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (3-6, 0-0 CAA) at NJIT Highlanders (2-8, 0-0 America East)
Monday, December 9, 2024 – 7:00 p.m.
Joel & Diane Bloom Wellness & Events Center, Newark, N.J.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: ESPN+
 
QUICK BULLETS
- Monmouth heads to NJIT Monday night after going a perfect 3-0 on the most recent homestand.
- Divine Dibula had a career high 12 points in the win.
- Belle Kranbuhl (15 pts, 13 rbs) and Taisha Exanor (14 pts, 13 rbs) led the Hawks to a 60-54 home win over Lafayette.
- MU made a season high 17 free throws on a season high 24 attempts.
- Head Coach Cait Wetmore and the Hawks collected win No. 1 of 2024-25 versus Saint Peter's, 59-50.
- Damaris Rodriguez scored 27 points vs. the Peacocks and surpassed the 2,000-point mark for her career.
- 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 second in the CAA with 4.2 blocks per game.
- Exanor ranks third in the CAA in rebounding (8.7/game).
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Be the fourth consecutive win for the Hawks.
- Improve MU to 4-6 on the season.
- Be the first road victory of the season.
- Improve MU to 1-5 in road games this year.
- Be Monmouth's first win over an America East opponent since beating NJIT in overtime on Nov. 27, 2022.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and NJIT are meeting for the 5th time in women's basketball competition.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 4-0.
- Three of the four games have been decided by nine points or less.
- Monmouth last traveled to Newark on Dec. 8, 2021, where the Hawks won 62-53.
- Belle Kranbuhl has a total of 18 points and 22 rebounds in her only two appearances versus the Highlanders.
- The last meeting - a Monmouth 70-62 win in overtime - was the only Hawks overtime game of the 2022-23 season.
 
NEXT UP
- Monmouth returns home after finals for a matchup with American.
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege and NBC Sports Philadelphia + at 4:30 p.m. It will also be on SNY on tape delay.
- It will be the 7th meeting all-time between the schools.
- 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.