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

Monmouth Hawks (9-17, 7-6 CAA) at Towson Tigers (17-9, 12-1 CAA)
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 2:00 p.m.
TU Arena, Towson, MD

TV
FloCollege
Play-by-Play: Spiro Morekas
Analyst: Jimmy Patsos

RADIO
Monmouth Digital Network
Varsity Network App
Play-by-Play: Joe Vasile

QUICK BULLETS
-Monmouth has won four of its last five
-Madison Durr is currently at 974 career points between Monmouth and The Citadel, with 346 coming this season
-Abdi Bashir is four threes away from tying the program single-season record of 103 made three pointers
-Andrew Ball scored a season-best 14 points at Stony Brook
-Monmouth dished out a season-high 22 assists at Stony Brook
-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

A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
-mark the 10th win of the season for Monmouth
-make the Hawks 10-17 this season
-be Monmouth's fourth road win of the season
-mark wins in five of the last six for the Hawks 
-move MU to 8-6 in the CAA
-make the Hawks 2-0 on the road trip
-split the season series with Towson
-be the 217th win of King Rice's career

MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
-Monmouth and Towson are meeting for the eighth time ever
-Towson leads the all-time series 5-2
-Towson leads the series as CA foes, 3-1
-Towson won a close contest with the Hawks last Saturday, 73-67
-The first meeting between the teams took place in 1983

NOTES FROM THE LAST TIME OUT
-Monmouth sweeps the season series with Stony Brook.
-Monmouth dished out a season best 22 assists, the most since having 22 in the CAA Tournament win over Stony Brook last season.
-Abdi Bashir had a career-high seven assists, the most by a Hawk in a game this season.
-Andrew Ball's 14 points marked a season-high and was just two points off his career-best.
-Bashir's first three moved him solely into second-place on the program's single-season three pointers list. He now has 99, four shy of tying George
Papas' program record.
-Five Hawks scored in double figures for the second time this season and first since January 11 vs. Charleston
-Monmouth is now 5-0 when shooting over 50% as a team.
-Jack Collins tied a career-high with six assists.
-Monmouth outshot Stony Brook, 51% to 42%.
-MU led for 35:56 and did not trail in the second half.
-The Hawks dominated off the bench, 26-5.
-Monmouth had 36 points in the paint to Stony Brook's 26.

NEXT UP
-Monmouth visits Hofstra on Thursday, February 20 at 7:00 p.m. The game will air nationally on CBS Sports Network, and on the radio via the
Monmouth Digital Network and the Varsity Network app.