2024-25 Monmouth Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Twenty-One

Monmouth Hawks (5-15, 3-4 CAA) at William & Mary Tribe (12-8, 6-1 CAA)
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 2:00 p.m.
Kaplan Arena, Williamsburg, VA

TV
MASN/FloCollege
Play-by-Play: Jay Colley
Analyst: Brandon Britt
Analyst: Bobby Dwyer

RADIO
Monmouth Digital Network/Varsity Network App
Play-by-Play: Matt Harmon

QUICK BULLETS
-Monmouth is playing its fourth straight game on the road
-MU is visiting William & Mary for the first time since March 2023
-Abdi Bashir is second in the nation in made three pointers
-Bashir scored 20+ points for the ninth time in 12 games vs. Elon
-Dok Muordar posted a career best 14 points vs. Charleston
-Muordar tied a career high with four blocks at Campbell
-Jack Collins played all 40 mins. vs NCAT and Elon, the first Hawk under King Rice to play all 40 minutes twice in one season
-Monmouth and William & Mary have split two meetings as league foes
-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 6-15 this season
-be Monmouth's second straight win ever over William & Mary
-be MU's first win ever in Williamsburg
-even MU to 4-4 in the CAA
-split this four-game road trip at 2-2
-secure the only matchup between the schools this year
-mark the Hawks third road win of the season
-be the 213th win of King Rice's career

MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
-Monmouth and William & Mary are tied, 1-1 in the all time series
-Monmouth won in West Long Branch in 2024, Monmouth's first season in the CAA
-William & Mary won the first meeting between the teams in 2023 in Virginia

NOTES FROM THE LAST TIME OUT
-Abdi Bashir posted his his 13th 20-point game this season.
-Jack Collins' 16 points was his seventh game in double figures and third highest scoring game of the season.
-Collins' four steals was a season high and the most by a Hawk in a game this year.
-Jordan Meka posted his first points since November 22.
-Meka's two blocks tied a season high.
-Monmouth had 10 assists to Elon's nine.
-MU was better from three, 33% to 27%.
-The game featured six ties and eight lead changes.

NEXT UP
-Monmouth returns home to host Drexel on Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. That game will air on SNY, NBC Sports Philadelphia and
FloCollege.