2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Twelve
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (5-6, 0-0 CAA) vs. Hofstra Pride (5-6, 0-0 CAA)
Friday, January 3, 2025 – 7:00 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: Maria Marino
Analyst: Renee Washington
 
QUICK BULLETS
- The Hawks ride a five-game win streak into the CAA opener versus Hofstra on Friday night.
- Monmouth went 4-0 in the month of December.
- Ella Farrelly set career highs in minutes played, field goals made, points, rebounds, blocks, and steals in a double-double performance versus American.
- Monmouth had a season best 15 assists and 14 steals the last time out.
- Taisha Exanor was named the CAA Player of the Week on December 16. She had 17 points and 11 rebounds in the win over NJIT on Dec. 9.
- Damaris Rodriguez scored 27 points vs. Saint Peter's and surpassed the 2,000-point mark for her career.
- MU ranks first in the CAA with 4.55 blocks per game.
- Exanor ranks fourth in the CAA in rebounding (8.7/game).
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Be the sixth consecutive win for the Hawks.
- Improve MU to 6-6 on the season.
- Be the fifth home victory of the season.
- Mark a 1-0 start to the CAA schedule for the Hawks.
- Improve MU to 5-1 in home games this year.
- Be Monmouth's eighth straight win over Hofstra.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Hofstra are meeting for the 16th time in women's basketball competition.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 10-5.
- Monmouth has not lost to the Pride since joining the CAA and has won seven straight in the all-time series dating back to 1998.
- Hofstra's last win versus Monmouth came on Nov. 25, 1997, in Hempstead.
- The two teams last met once last season. Monmouth won on the road, 66-50, despite Hofstra finishing on a 10-0 run.
- Exanor played a team high 27 minutes and finished with 12 points.
- Hofstra shot just 28.1% from the field.
- The Pride last visited the OceanFirst Bank Center two seasons ago where the Hawks earned a hard-fought victory, 63-59.
- Only one of the 15 all-time meetings has gone to overtime (Nov. 21, 2000).
- Monmouth and Hofstra will meet again this season in Hempstead on Sunday, February 23.
 
NEXT UP
- Monmouth continues its CAA schedule versus Stony Brook on Sunday, Jan. 5.
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege at 2:00 p.m.
- It will be the 9th meeting all-time between the schools.
- Stony Brook leads the all-time series, 5-3.
- Stony Brook has won two of the first three meetings as CAA foes.
- The Seawolves finished last regular season as the top team in the conference with a 16-2 record, while Monmouth finished second at 14-4.
- Each of the past three meetings will have come in West Long Branch.
- The last Hawks win was a 72-71 thriller in the regular season finale of the 2022-23 season.