2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Thirteen
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (5-7, 0-1 CAA) vs. Stony Brook Seawolves (6-6, 1-0 CAA)
Friday, January 5, 2025 – 2:00 p.m.
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, N.J.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloCollege
Play-by-play: Kevin Copp
Analyst: Dominique Patrick
 
QUICK BULLETS
- The Hawks continue their CAA schedule following a 75-67 home loss in the conference opener to Hofstra.
- Monmouth Women's Basketball is hosting Alumni Day at the OceanFirst Center vs. Stony Brook on Sunday.
- Despite the loss, MU had a season high 16 assists.
- Damaris Rodriguez led the Hawks with 23 points.
- 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.
- Taisha Exanor was named the CAA Player of the Week on Dec. 16. She had 17 points and 11 rebounds in the win over NJIT on Dec. 9.
- MU ranks first in the CAA with 4.67 blocks per game.
- Exanor ranks fourth in the CAA in rebounding (8.8/game).
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Be the first win in the year 2025 for the Hawks.
- Improve MU to 6-7 on the season.
- Improve MU to 1-1 in CAA games this season.
- Be the fifth home victory of the season.
- Improve MU to 5-2 in home games this year.
- Be Monmouth's fourth straight win over Towson.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Stony Brook are meeting for the 9th time in women's basketball competition.
- 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.
 
NEXT UP
- Monmouth plays its first CAA road contest of the 2024-25 season at Towson on Friday, Jan. 10.
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege at 2:00 p.m.
- It will be the 5th meeting all-time between the schools.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 3-1.
- The Hawks won both meetings last season.
- Monmouth has won three straight by an average margin of 14 points.
- The first of those three wins was in the 2022-23 CAA Championship, where the Hawks advanced to their first NCAA Tournament in 40 years thanks to a dominant 80-55 victory in Towson.
- In games played in West Long Branch, the all-time series is tied at one win apiece.
- The two teams will meet again later this season on March 6 in West Long Branch.