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Abdi Bashir Jr. MBB Monmouth vs. Drexel 1-30-2025 EW
Emily Webb

Hawks Host Delaware Saturday

January 31, 2025

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

Monmouth Hawks (6-16, 4-5 CAA) vs. Delaware Blue Hens (11-11, 4-5 CAA)
Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 2:00 p.m.
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, NJ

TV
SNY/NBC Sports Philadelphia/FloCollege
Play-by-Play: Eddy Occhipinti
Analyst: Joe Vasile

QUICK BULLETS
-Monmouth is comes off a double overtime win over Drexel, 104-97
-Madison Durr posted the eighth 40-point game in school history vs. Drexel
-Durr's 19-19 from the foul line set a program and CAA record
-Abdi Bashir scored 32 vs. Drexel, his fourth 30-point game this season
-Andrew Ball has posted career-highs in points and rebounds the last two games
-Cornelius Robinson III scored a career-best 20 points at William & Mary
-Abdi Bashir is first in the nation in made three pointers
-Monmouth scored 100 points for the fifth time under King Rice
-104 points was MU's most in a game since 2016
-Jack Collins posted his second double-double of the season vs. Drexel
-This marked Monmouth's first double OT game since 2019

A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
-mark the seventh win of the season for Monmouth
-make the Hawks 7-16 this season
-be Monmouth's third straight home win
-start a two-game winning streak for Monmouth
-even MU to 5-5 in the CAA
-open the four-game homestand 2-0
-mark the 18th home win in 19 games for Monmouth
-be the 214th win of King Rice's career

MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
-Monmouth leads the all-time series, 6-5
-The teams have met just once in each of the last two seasons
-Monmouth won in 2023 before falling in Newark last season and this season
-MU has won six of the last nine against Delaware
-The first meeting took place in 1986
-Delaware's Tahron Allen is a former Hawk, spending two seasons at MU

NOTES FROM THE LAST TIME OUT
-Durr scored the eighth 40-point game in program history
-This was the first time two MU players have scored 30 points in the same game 
-This marked the second 40-point game under King Rice, and first since 2/13/17 vs. Siena (Justin Robinson)
-Durr set the OceanFirst Bank Center scoring record (previous was 37 – Xander Rice, 2/15/24 vs. Campbell and Niagara's Kahlil Dukes,
2/4/18)
-Durr set the single-game record for made free throws with 19
-Durr has the most free throw makes without a miss in program history (19-19)
-It also marked the most free throw makes without a miss in the NCAA this season
-Durr notched the 17th 40-point game in the NCAA this year
-This was the first 40-point game in West Long Branch since Rahsaan Johnson's program record 43 (2/4/01 vs. St. Francis Brooklyn in
Boylan Gym)
-Durr's 19-19 from the line signified the most FTM without a miss in CAA history
-It was also the second most FTM in a game in CAA history (David Robinson, 1986)
-Durr became the 26th player in NCAA history with 19+ FTM without a miss
-This was the most FTM without a miss in the NCAA since Holland Woods of Portland St. vs. Montana on 1/30/20 was 21-21
-Durr joins three players since 1995 that have gone 19-19 or better from the line in a 40-point game (Grant Williams, Tennessee vs.
Vanderbilt, 23-23 on 1/23/19, Ja Morant, Murray St. vs. SIUE, 21-21 on 1/19/19, Keiton Page, Oklahoma St. vs. Texas, 20-20 on 2/18/12)
-Abdi Bashir posted his fourth 30-point game of the season
-Bashir's 33 field goal attempts is a program record
-The 33 FGA is the most in a game in the NCAA this season and fourth most in a game in CAA history

NEXT UP
-Monmouth remains home to host Hampton on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. That game will air on SNY and FloCollege.
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