2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Fifteen
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (7-7, 2-1 CAA) vs. William & Mary Tribe (4-10, 1-2 CAA)
Sunday, January 12, 2025 – 2:00 p.m.
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, N.J.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloCollege/SNY/NBC Sports Philadelphia
Play-by-play: Kevin Copp
Analyst: Renee Washington
 
QUICK BULLETS
- The Hawks eye their third straight CAA win as they host William & Mary on Sunday afternoon.
- Monmouth has won seven of its last eight games.
- Monmouth is coming off a 56-54 win at Towson.
- Belle Kranbuhl registered a career high 22 points on 11-of-13 shooting from the field
- MU allowed just one made three by the Tigers.
- MU had a season high 19 assists in its last home game.
- Taisha Exanor had 16 rebounds vs. Stony Brook - the most any Hawk has had this season.
- Ella Farrelly set career highs in minutes played, field goals made, points, rebounds, blocks, and steals in a double-double performance versus American.
- Exanor ranks third in the CAA in rebounding (9.4/game).
- MU ranks first in the CAA with 4.5 blocks per game.
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Be the eighth win in the last nine games for the Hawks.
- Improve MU to 8-7 on the season.
- Improve MU to 3-1 in CAA games this season.
- Be the sixth home victory of the season.
- Improve MU to 6-2 in home games this year.
- Be Monmouth's second straight win over the Tribe.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Towson are meeting for the seventh time in women's basketball competition.
- The all-time series is tied, 3-3.
- The two teams split the season series last season.
- The Tribe won the first three meetings as CAA foes before the Hawks picked up a 67-56 win last January in Williamsburg.
- Sandrine Clesca (15 points, 6 rebounds) and Taisha Exanor (11 points, 10 rebounds, 5 blocks) led Monmouth in the victory.
- Monmouth shot 49.1% for the game and 73.9% in the second half.
- All six meetings have been decided by 10 points or less.
- William & Mary is 2-1 all-time in West Long Branch.
 
NEXT UP
- Monmouth makes the road trip to Charleston on Friday, Jan. 17.
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege at 7:00 p.m.
- It will be the fifth meeting all-time between the schools.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 3-1.
- Monmouth won both meetings last season.
- Kranbuhl had a career high 18 rebounds the last time the Hawks played at Charleston (Jan. 14, 2024).
- The Cougars shot just 29.7% from the field in the 75-62 Monmouth win.
- MU is 1-1 all-time at TD Arena.
- The Hawks have won three straight matchups versus Charleston.