2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Twenty-Six
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (13-12, 8-6 CAA) at Drexel (15-9, 11-3 CAA)
Friday, February 28, 2025 – 6:00 p.m.
Daskalakis Athletic Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloCollege/NBC Sports Philadelphia
 
QUICK BULLETS
- The Hawks play game two of a three-game road stint at Drexel on Friday, Feb. 28.
- MU is coming off a three-point loss at Hofstra.
- Monmouth sits in fifth place in the CAA standings.
- Divine Dibula (15 pts, 10 rbs) recorded her second consecutive double-double and fourth of the season.
- In its last six wins, MU has held its opponents to a combined 30.9% shooting mark from the field.
- MU has beaten each of the top three teams in the current CAA standings (N.C. A&T, Drexel and Charleston).
- 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 (9.0/game). She ranks 26th in the nation with 6.9 DRPG.
- MU ranks first in the CAA, first in the state of New Jersey, and 21st in the nation with 4.8 blocks per game.
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Improve MU to 14-12 on the season.
- Improve MU to 9-6 in CAA games this season.
- Make Monmouth 5-9 in road contests this season.
- Be the fourth win of February for the Hawks.
- Improve MU to 4-4 on Fridays this season.
- Be a season series sweep for MU over Drexel.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Drexel are meeting for the 12th time in women's basketball competition.
- Drexel leads the all-time series, 6-5.
- Monmouth won the first meeting of the season, 50-47, on Feb. 7.
- The Monmouth win snapped a five-game winning streak for the Dragons, who shot just 30.8% from the field.
- Monmouth finished the game on a 9-0 run.
- Belle Kranbuhl tallied five blocks - the 14th time she has recorded five or more in a game in her career.
- The Hawks have won five of the last six meetings.
 
NEXT UP
- The Hawks play their final road contest of the regular season at Stony Brook on Sunday, Mar. 2.
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege and SNY at 1 p.m.
- It will be the 12th meeting all-time between the schools.
- Stony Brook leads the all-time series, 5-4.
- Monmouth won the first meeting of the season, 75-61, on Jan 5.
- It was the first career CAA win for Head Coach Cait Wetmore.
- As a team, Monmouth recorded 19 assists.
- Taisha Exanor had a season-high 16 rebounds in a double-double effort.
- Divine Dibula notched her first career double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds.
- The series as CAA foes is tied, 2-2.