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

Monmouth Hawks (8-16, 6-5 CAA) vs. Towson Tigers (15-9, 10-1 CAA)
Saturday, February 8, 2025 - 4:00 p.m.
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, NJ

TV
CBS Sports Network
Play-by-Play: Pat McCarthy
Analyst: Tarik Turner

QUICK BULLETS
-Monmouth has won three in a row, its longest streak of this season
-MU is 3-0 on the current homestand
-Abdi Bashir is 11 threes shy of tying the program record of 103
-MU scored over 90 points in two straight games for the first time since 2018 prior to the win over Hampton
-Madison Durr was named CAA, Lou Henson National, Oscar Robertson National and Metropolitan Basketball Writers Player of the Week
-MU comes off its first CAA weekend sweep of the season 
-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
-Bashir leads the nation in made threes

A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
-mark the ninth win of the season for Monmouth
-make the Hawks 9-16 this season
-be Monmouth's fifth straight home win
-be a four-game winning streak for Monmouth
-move MU to 7-5 in the CAA
-finish the four-game homestand 4-0
-mark the 20th home win in 21 games for Monmouth
-be the 216th win of King Rice's career

MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
-Monmouth and Towson are meeting for the seventh time ever
-Towson leads the all-time series 4-2
-As CAA foes, Towson has two wins to MU's one
-Monmouth won the last meeting in West Long Branch, 51-43 on 1/4/24
-The first meeting between the teams took place in 1983

NOTES FROM THE LAST TIME OUT
-Monmouth has won three straight, its longest winning streak of the season.
-The Hawks have won 19 of 20 at home.
-Monmouth had four players in double figures for the fourth game in a row.
-Madison Durr has his consecutive free throws made streak snapped at 35, a program Division I record.
-Jack Collins tied a season-high with four steals, and tied the most in a game by a Hawk this season.
-Robinson posted his third double-figure effort in the last four games.
-Monmouth won its lone meeting of the season with Hampton.
-The Hawks have won all three games on this season-long homestand.
-MU won a game for the second straight season only making one three pointer (1/4/24 vs. Towson).
-Monmouth outshot Hampton, 43% to 42%.
-The Hawks were better in the paint, 36-28.
-Monmouth led for 35:08 and only trailed for 1:19.
-MU won the fast break, 16-6.
-Monmouth limited Hampton to just 22% from three (5-23).

NEXT UP
-Monmouth visits Stony Brook on Thursday, February 13 at 5:00 p.m. The game will air on national television on the CBS Sports Network, and on the radio via the Monmouth Digital Network and the Varsity Network app.