2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Twenty-Three
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (12-10, 7-4 CAA) at Delaware Blue Hens (7-14, 4-7 CAA)
Friday, February 14, 2025 – 6:30 p.m.
Bob Carpenter Center, Newark, Del.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloCollege
 
QUICK BULLETS
- Monmouth travels to Delaware Friday night.
- MU is coming off a three-point victory versus Drexel, where the Hawks finished the game on a 9-0 run.
- In its last five wins, MU has held its opponents to a combined 29.1% shooting mark from the field.
- Monmouth is 11-4 since the start of December.
- Divine Dibula had a career-high 18 points in her second career double-double at Elon.
- Damaris Rodriguez and Kemari Reynolds combined for 31 points in Monmouth's 54-49 win over first-place N.C. A&T.
- Rodriguez recorded 13 assists in an overtime loss at UNCW, a mark that tied a single-game program record.
- Taisha Exanor ranks third in the CAA in rebounding (8.9/game). She ranks 25th in the nation with 7.0 DRPG.
- MU ranks first in the CAA and 22nd in the nation with 4.8 blocks per game.
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Be the 13th win in the last 17 games for the Hawks.
- Improve MU to 13-10 on the season.
- Improve MU to 8-4 in CAA games this season.
- Make Monmouth 4-8 in road contests this season.
- Snap a three-game winning streak for the Blue Hens.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Drexel are meeting for the ninth time in women's basketball competition.
- Delaware leads the all-time series, 7-1.
- Monmouth is 1-3 all-time in Newark.
- The lone win for the Hawks came on New Year's Day in 2023. Monmouth pulled down 51 rebounds and connected on 18 free throws in the 20-point victory.
- Just one meeting has gone to overtime - a 64-63 Delaware victory in the first ever matchup in 1990.
- The all-time series as CAA opponents is tied, 1-1.
 
NEXT UP
- The Hawks return home for a National Girls and Women in Sports Day celebration versus Hampton on Sunday, Feb. 16.
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege, SNY and NBC Sports Philadelphia at 2:00 p.m.
- It will be the third meeting all-time between the schools.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 2-0.
- Belle Kranbuhl is averaging nine rebounds per contest versus Hampton.
- MU's average margin of victory is 10.5 points.
- The Hawks are 1-0 all-time versus Hampton in West Long Branch.