2024-25 Monmouth Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Nineteen

Monmouth Hawks (5-13, 3-2 CAA) Campbell Fighting Camels (7-11, 2-3 CAA)
Saturday, January 18, 2025 - 2:00 p.m.
Gore Arena, Buies Creek, NC

TV
FloCollege
Play-by-Play: Evan Budrovich
Analyst: Jay Sonnhalter

RADIO
Monmouth Digital Network/Varsity Network App
Play-by-Play: Joe Vasile

QUICK BULLETS
-Monmouth comes off a win over North Carolina A&T Thursday
-The Hawks have won two in a row for the first time this season
-Abdi Bashir is leading the nation in made three pointers
-Bashir scored 20+ points for the eighth time in 10 games vs. NC A&T
-Dok Muordar posted a career best 14 points vs. Charleston
-Monmouth snapped Charleston's 15-game CAA winning streak
-Jack Collins played all 40 minutes Thurs.
-Monmouth is 2-0 as CAA members against Campbell
-The Hawks are visiting Buies Creek for the first time ever
-Chris Morgan had a career-best 10 points vs. Charleston
-MU knocked off its 10th high-major under King Rice vs. Seton Hall

A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
-mark the sixth win of the season for Monmouth
-make the Hawks 6-13 this season
-be Monmouth's fourth straight win ever over Campbell
-be MU's first win ever at Campbell
-make MU 4-2 in the CAA
-mark a three-game a winning streak
-make MU 4-1 all time against Campbell
-mark the Hawks third road win of the season
-sweep a weekend CAA series for the first time ever
-be the 213th win of King Rice's career

MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
-Monmouth leads the all-time series, 3-1
-Monmouth is 2-0 against Campbell since joining the CAA
-Last years meeting featured two Xander Rice threes in the final 3.2 seconds including a buzzer beater
-Monmouth defeated Campbell in last season's CAA Tournament
-This is the only meeting between the schools this season

NOTES FROM THE LAST TIME OUT
-Abdi Bashir Jr. scored 20+ points for the eighth time in 10 games.
-Monmouth is now 5-0 all time against North Carolina A&T.
-Jack Collins had double-digit rebounds for the second straight game.
-All seven of Dok Muordar's points came in the second half.
-MU posted consecutive wins for the first time this year.
-Monmouth is 3-2 in the CAA for the first time ever.
-MU won despite making just two threes, the least triples in a win since 1/4/24 vs. Towson (1).
-Monmouth outshot North Carolina A&T, 42% to 33%.
-MU outrebounded the Aggies, 41-40.
-The Hawks dominated the paint, 36-20.
-MU never trailed, leading for 37:25.

NEXT UP
Monmouth visits Elon on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. The game will air on FloCollege and on the radio via the Monmouth Digital Network
and on the Varsity Network app.