2025-26 Monmouth Men's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game 11
Monmouth Hawks (5-5, 0-0 CAA) vs. Fairfield Stags (5-5, 0-2 MAAC)
Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025 – 2:00 p.m.
Leo D. Mahoney Arena, Fairfield, Conn.
TV: ESPN+
Radio: Monmouth Digital Network
Quick Bullets
- Following a one-week hiatus, Monmouth returns to action Sunday with a road matchup at Fairfield inside Leo D. Mahoney Arena.
- Tipoff is set for 2 p.m., with the game streamed live on ESPN+.
- The Hawks last competed on Saturday, falling 79-67 at ACC foe Georgia Tech.
- Monmouth is led by junior Jason Rivera-Torres, who has scored 20 or more points in three of his last four games.
- Three Hawks are averaging double figures this season: Rivera-Torres (14.6 ppg), Stefanos Spartalis (13.0) and Justin Ray (12.7).
- Spartalis led Monmouth with 14 points against Georgia Tech, his seventh game this season in double figures.
- In the team's three games against high-major opponents this season, the freshman from Greece is averaging 16 points per game.
- Ray has reached double figures six times, highlighted by a career-high 25-point performance against Syracuse.
- Senior Jack Collins ranks 35th nationally at 2.3 steals per game, while Monmouth sits 23rd nationally in blocks per contest, averaging 5.3 per game.
- Collins needs just three more rebounds to become the seventh player in program history to reach 600 career rebounds and the first since Chris Brady (625, 2013-17).
All-Time Series
- Mark the Hawks' fourth-consecutive victory over Fairfield, dating back to the 2021-22 campaign.
- Former MAAC foes, Monmouth owns a 14-7 all-time record against Fairfield, with all 14 wins coming under Head Coach King Rice (14-5).
Next Up
- The Hawks return home to host Quinnipiac on Wednesday, Dec. 17. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m.
