2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Seventeen
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (8-8, 3-2 CAA) at UNC Wilmington Seahawks (8-9, 2-2 CAA)
Sunday, January 19, 2025 – 1:00 p.m.
Trask Coliseum, Wilmington, N.C.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloCollege
 
QUICK BULLETS
- Following a four-point win at Charleston, the Hawks take on UNCW at Trask Coliseum on Sunday afternoon.
- Monmouth has won eight of its last 10 games.
- MU held the Cougars to a season-low 26.9% from the field.
- Damaris Rodrigue led all scorers with 15 points.
- Rodriguez tied her season high with 27 points on 12-of-16 shooting from the field vs. William & Mary.
- Taisha Exanor had her fifth double-double of the year.
- Belle Kranbuhl registered a career high 22 points on 11-of-13 shooting from the field at Towson.
- Exanor ranks second in the CAA in rebounding (9.6/game). She ranks 20th in the nation with 7.3 defensive rebounds per contest.
- MU ranks first in the CAA and 23rd in the nation with 4.8 blocks per game.
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Be the ninth win in the last 11 games for the Hawks.
- Improve MU to 9-8 on the season.
- Improve MU to 4-2 in CAA games this season.
- Mark a 3-0 start in road CAA contests for MU this season.
- Be the fourth road victory of the season.
- Improve MU to 4-5 in road games this year.
- Be Monmouth's third straight win over the Seahawks.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and UNCW are meeting for the fourth time in women's basketball competition.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 2-1.
- Monmouth has won both meetings as CAA foes.
- Exanor notched a career high 18 rebounds and added 12 points in last season's 65-53 win for Monmouth.
- Graduate guard Jania Hall - who won 2023-24 CAA Sixth Player of the Year with the Hawks, as well as a CAA Championship in 2022-23 - will face her former team for the first time as a Seahawk.
- MU is 1-1 all-time at Trask Coliseum.
- UNCW will be hosting its Greek Day.
 
NEXT UP
- Monmouth returns to the OceanFirst Bank Center to take on first-place North Carolina A&T on Friday, Jan. 24.
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege at 7:00 p.m.
- It will be the fourth meeting all-time between the schools.
- N.C. A&T leads the all-time series, 2-1.
- Monmouth has never beaten the Aggies in West Long Branch.
- Last season, Monmouth won the only meeting, 80-76, in double overtime in Greensboro.
- The Hawks went 28-of-30 from the free throw stripe in the win.
- The Hawks will be hosting its Pride Night.