2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Twenty-Two
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (11-10, 6-4 CAA) vs. Drexel Dragons (11-8, 7-2 CAA)
Friday, February 7, 2025 – 7:00 p.m.
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, N.J.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloCollege
Play-by-play: Joe Vasile
Analyst: Stef Manisero
 
QUICK BULLETS
- Monmouth hosts Drexel, winners of five straight, on Friday night for Black History Night at the OFBC.
- There will also be a Beer Garden available for anyone 21+ located behind the student section.
- In its last four wins, MU has held its opponents to a combined 28.8% shooting mark from the field.
- Monmouth is 10-4 since the start of December.
- Divine Dibula had a career-high 18 points in her second career double-double in Sunday's win at Elon.
- Taisha Exanor added 17 points.
- 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 fourth in the CAA in rebounding (8.8/game). She ranks 26th in the nation with 6.9 DRPG.
- MU ranks first in the CAA and 29th in the nation with 4.6 blocks per game.
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Be the 12th win in the last 16 games for the Hawks.
- Improve MU to 12-10 on the season.
- Improve MU to 7-4 in CAA games this season.
- Be the eighth home victory of the season, making MU 8-3 in the OceanFirst Bank Center this season.
- Snap a five-game winning streak for the Dragons.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Drexel are meeting for the 11th time in women's basketball competition.
- Drexel leads the all-time series, 6-4.
- Drexel won the last matchup, a two-point win in last year's CAA Tournament, which ended a four-game winning streak for the Hawks in the all-time series.
- The last time Drexel defeated Monmouth in the regular season was on Dec. 5, 2020.
- One game has gone to overtime.
- MU is 3-0 versus Drexel in CAA games.
 
NEXT UP
- Following a Sunday bye, MU makes the trip down I-95 to play Delaware in Newark on Friday, Feb. 14.
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege at 6:30 p.m.
- It will be the ninth meeting all-time between the schools.
- 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.