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

Monmouth Hawks (10-18, 8-7 CAA) vs. Northeastern Huskies (15-13, 7-8 CAA)
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 7:00 p.m.
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, NJ

TV
CBS Sports Network
Play-by-Play: John Fanta
Analyst: Tarik Turner

QUICK BULLETS
-Monmouth has won five of its last seven
-Madison Durr scored his 1,000th collegiate point at Hofstra
-Abdi Bashir is one three-pointer away from tying the program single-season record of 103 made threes
-Andrew Ball scored seven straight points, including a game-winning three, in under two minutes to close out the win at Hofstra
-Durr became the second player in DI this season to make 15 or more free throws in two separate games
-MU's 16-point comeback at Hofstra was its largest of the season
-Madison Durr was named CAA, Lou Henson National, Oscar Robertson National and Metropolitan Basketball Writers Player of the
Week on 2/8
-Durr set the program's Division I record with 35 consecutive made free throws, snapped against Hampton

A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
-mark the 11th win of the season for Monmouth
-make the Hawks 11-18 this season
-be Monmouth's seventh home win of the season
-mark wins in six of the last eight for the Hawks 
-move MU to 9-7 in the CAA
-secure at least a .500 CAA record for the second year in a row
-win the season series with Northeastern
-be the 217th win of King Rice's career
-be the 599th win in the program's Division I history

MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
-Monmouth and Northeastern are meeting for the seventh time ever
-The series is tied, 3-3
-Since joining the CAA, Monmouth has dropped two of three to the Huskies
-Each team has won their home games as CAA foes
-The matchup began with a non-conference meeting in 1990 at the Albertson's Christmas Classic in Boise, ID
-Monmouth is 2-0 all-time against Northeastern in West Long Branch

NOTES FROM THE LAST TIME OUT
-Madison Durr's free throw with 3:42 remaining registered as his 1,000th career point.
-Durr became the second player in Division I to make 15 or more free throws in a game, joining Florida State's Jamir Watkins.
-Andrew Ball scored all seven of his points in a 1:54 stretch to close out the game, going on a personal 7-0 run.
-Monmouth takes the season series from Hofstra.
-Monmouth won its first game this season when being outshot by their opponent.
-The Hawks overcame their largest deficit of the season, and largest since a 19-point comeback against Northern Illinois on December
9, 2023.
-Jack Collins scored in double figures for the 13th time this season.
-Monmouth was better off the bench, 20-19.
-The Hawks won the second half, 41-26.
-Each team had 34 total rebounds.
-The game featured just one lead change.
-Monmouth closed the game on an 11-1 run.
-The Hawks did not allow a field goal in the last 4:07.

NEXT UP
-Monmouth hosts Elon for Senior Night Thursday at 7:00 p.m.