2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Thirty
                                                                                     
No. 5 Monmouth Hawks (15-14, 10-8 CAA) vs. No. 13 Hampton Pirates (8-22, 3-15 CAA)
Thursday, March 13, 2025 – 2:30 p.m.
CareFirst Arena, Washington, D.C.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloCollege
 
QUICK BULLETS
- The Hawks begin their CAA Championship run in Round Two versus the Hampton Pirates on Thursday, March 13.
- The Hawks took the only game this season versus the Pirates, 62-60 in West Long Branch.
- Damaris Rodriguez had a go-ahead and-one layup with 36 seconds remaining.
- MU finished in fifth place in the CAA standings after being projected to finish 10th in the preseason poll.
- Rodriguez earned All-CAA First Team honors, while Taisha Exanor was named to the Second Team.
- Monmouth finished the regular season as the CAA's most efficient shooting team at 41.8%.
- The Hawks pulled in a league best 27.6 defensive rebounds per game.
- MU ranks first in the CAA, first in the state of New Jersey, and 17th in the nation with 4.8 blocks per game.
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Advance Monmouth to the CAA quarterfinals for the third straight season.
- Make the Hawks 5-1 all-time in CAA Championship games.
- Improve MU to 16-14 on the season.
- Improve MU to 3-1 in the month of March.
- Improve MU to 3-1 on Thursdays this season.
- Make Monmouth 2-0 versus Hampton this season.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Hampton are meeting for the 4th time in women's basketball competition.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 3-0.
- Monmouth won the first meeting of the season, 62-60, on Feb. 16.
- Damaris Rodriguez hit a go-ahead and-one layup with 36 seconds remaining.
- The Hawks outscored the Pirates 22-6 in the second quarter.
- Taisha Exanor recorded an 18-point, 11-rebound double-double.
- Divine Dibula also recorded a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds.
- Dibula, Exanor, and Ella Farrelly combined for 33 of MU's 46 rebounds.
 
NEXT UP
- With a win, the Hawks will continue their run through the 2025 Coastal Athletic Association Women's Basketball Championship in the quarterfinals versus fourth-seeded Drexel.
- The Hawks and Dragons split the season series.
- Drexel leads the all-time series, 7-5.