2023-24 Monmouth Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Thirty
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (16-13, 9-7 CAA) at Hampton Pirates (7-22, 2-14 CAA)
Thursday, February 29, 2024 – 7:00 p.m.
Convocation Center, Hampton, Va.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV
FloSports
Play-by-Play: Sean Robertson
Analyst: Kyan Nickelberry
 
RADIO
Monmouth Digital Network
Play-by-play: Joe Vasile
 
QUICK BULLETS
- Monmouth is coming off its program record 13th straight home win - a 16-point victory over
North Carolina A&T
- The Hawks finished '23-24 with a 13-1 home record
- Nikita Konstantynovskyi posted the fourth 20-20 game in MU history and the sixth in Division I
this season on 2/17
- Jaret Valencia won back-to-back CAA Rookie of the Week honors (2/12 & 2/19), the first Hawk
since '08 to earn the award consecutively
- MU turned it over just four times against Stony Brook, the lowest since 3/6/20
- Five Hawks scored in double figures vs. SBU for the second time this year
- Rice scored 37 points, a career-high and tied for the most points ever in the OFBC
- Rice banked in two threes in the final 3.2 seconds to beat Campbell on 2/15
- King Rice is the 19th active NCAA head coach with 200+ wins at one institution
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- mark the 17th win of the season for Monmouth
- be the second victory on the road for the Hawks
- be MU's first road CAA win of the season
- move Monmouth's CAA record three games over .500 to 10-7
- register as the 206th win of Rice's career
- give Monmouth its second win over Hampton this year
- hand Hampton its 23rd loss of the season
- be MU's 10th win in the calendar year of 2024 and sixth in February
- propel MU to four games over .500 overall at 17-13
- be Monmouth's third win in a row over Hampton


MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth leads the head-to-head, 4-3
- The Hawks defeated the Pirates at home earlier this season, 85-77
- In the first meeting on Jan. 20, Monmouth hit five threes in the final 5:24 to earn the victory
- MU's first ever CAA Tournament win came over the Pirates last season
- This is the eighth ever meeting between the programs
- The Hawks and Pirates first met in November 2003 where MU win on a neutral floor
- Both teams joined the CAA together last season
 
NOTES FROM THE LAST TIME OUT
- Monmouth won its 13th straight home game, tying a program record set by the 2003-04 Hawks, who were an unbeaten 13-0 at home.
- MU had a season-best 20 assists.
- Jack Holmstrom scored a season-high nine points on three triples.
- Klemen Vuga scored a season-best 12 points, his first double-figure game of the year and 16th of his career.
- Jakari Spence dished out a career-high nine assists.
- Nikita Konstantynovskyi had 12 rebounds, his seventh double-digit rebounding game of the season.
- Braedan Allen made his first career start, and scored a career best four points.
- Corey Miller made his first career basket.
- MU finishes the home CAA slate at a perfect 9-0.
- Monmouth is now 4-0 all time against North Carolina A&T.
- Monmouth outshot the Aggies 46% to 28%.
- The Hawks dominated off the bench, 45-14.
- Monmouth had 38 paint points to North Carolina A&T's 12.
- The Hawks led for 35:22 of the game.
 
NEXT UP
- Monmouth closes the regular season at Elon on Saturday at 1pm
- It is the first meeting between the Hawks and Phoenix this season and second all-time
- The game will air on FloSports and on the radio via the Monmouth Digital Network