2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Twenty-Four
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (12-11, 7-5 CAA) vs. Hampton Pirates (6-17, 2-10 CAA)
Sunday, February 16, 2025 – 2:00 p.m.
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, N.J.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloCollege/SNY/NBC Sports Philadelphia
Play-by-play: Joe Vasile
Analyst: Renee Washington
 
QUICK BULLETS
- Monmouth returns home for a game versus Hampton as the Hawks celebrate NGWSD at the OFBC.
- MU is coming off a nine-point loss at Delaware Friday.
- Taisha Exanor had a career-high 22 points and 15 rebounds in the loss.
- In its last five wins, MU has held its opponents to a combined 29.1% shooting mark from the field.
- Monmouth is 11-5 since the start of December.
- 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.
- Exanor ranks second in the CAA in rebounding (9.1/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 18 games for the Hawks.
- Improve MU to 13-11 on the season.
- Improve MU to 8-5 in CAA games this season.
- Make Monmouth 9-3 in home contests this season.
- Be the fourth consecutive home victory for the Hawks.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Hampton are meeting for the third time in women's basketball competition.
- 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.
 
NEXT UP
- The Hawks will have Friday off and then will play at Hofstra on Sunday, Feb. 23.
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege and MSG Network at 2 p.m.
- It will be the 17th meeting all-time between the schools.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 10-6.
- Hofstra won the first meeting of the season, 75-67, on opening night of conference play (Jan. 3).
- LaNae' Corbett led all scorers with 26 points, while Damaris Rodriguez led the Hawks with 23.
- The Hawks are 6-2 all-time at Hofstra.