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

Monmouth Hawks (8-17, 6-6 CAA) at Stony Brook Seawolves (6-19, 2-10 CAA)
Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 5:00 p.m.
Stony Brook Arena, Stony Brook, NY

TV
CBS Sports Network
Play-by-Play: Dave Ryan
Analyst: John Giannini

RADIO
Monmouth Digital Network
Varsity Network App
Play-by-Play: Jackson Heil

QUICK BULLETS
-Monmouth comes off a 3-1 homestand, including a season-long three-game win streak in CAA play
-Madison Durr is currently at 962 career points between Monmouth and The Citadel, with 334 coming this season
-Abdi Bashir is six threes away from tying the program single-season record of 103 made three pointers
-Madison Durr was named CAA, Lou Henson National, Oscar Robertson National and Metropolitan Basketball Writers Player of the Week last week
-Durr set the program's Division I record with 35 consecutive made free throws, snapped against Hampton
-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 vs. Drexel
-Bashir leads the nation in made threes and field goal attempts

A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
-mark the ninth win of the season for Monmouth
-make the Hawks 9-17 this season
-be Monmouth's third road win of the season
-mark wins in four of the last five for the Hawks 
-move MU to 7-6 in the CAA
-open a three-game road trip with a victory
-sweep the season series from Stony Brook
-be the 216th win of King Rice's career

MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
-Monmouth and Stony Brook are meeting for the seventh time ever
-The all-time series is tied at three apiece
-Monmouth is 3-2 in CAA play against Stony Brook
-Monmouth is 1-1 all-time at Stony Brook, with both meetings coming since 2022
-MU beat the Seawolves in the CAA opener this year, 78-56
-Abdi Bashir had 31 points on 12-18 FG and seven triples in that game
-The first ever meeting between the teams took place in 2010 at Monmouth at 6am as part of ESPN's 24-Hour Tipoff Marathon

NOTES FROM THE LAST TIME OUT
-Abdi Bashir scored in double figures for the 24th time this season.
-Madison Durr posted his 18th game in double digits.
-Jack Collins posted double figures for the 11th time this year.
-Nine different Hawks scored in the game.
-The crowd of 2,756 was the largest at the OceanFirst Bank Center this season.
-The game aired on CBS Sports Network, the first of four times Monmouth will air on the platform this season as part of the CAA's television
package.
-Monmouth was better in the paint, 26-24.
-The Hawks topped Towson off turnovers, 9-5.
-MU forced 12 turnovers from Towson while only committing nine of their own.

NEXT UP
-Monmouth visits Towson on Saturday, February 15 at 2:00 p.m. The game will air on FloCollege, and on the radio via the Monmouth Digital Network
and the Varsity Network app.