2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Thirty-One
                                                                                     
No. 5 Monmouth Hawks (16-14, 10-8 CAA) vs. No. 4 Drexel Dragons (16-12, 12-6 CAA)
Friday, March 14, 2025 – 2:30 p.m.
CareFirst Arena, Washington, D.C.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloCollege
 
QUICK BULLETS
- The Hawks continue their CAA Championship run in the quarterfinals versus Drexel on Friday, March 14.
- Monmouth is coming off an eight-point win over Hampton in the Second Round.
- MU pulled down 47 rebounds as a team.
- It is the third straight season the Hawks have appeared in the CAA Quarterfinals.
- The two teams split the season series.
- 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%.
- 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 semifinals for the second time in three years.
- Make the Hawks 6-1 all-time in CAA Championship games.
- Improve MU to 17-14 on the season.
- Improve MU to 4-1 in the month of March.
- Improve MU to 4-5 on Fridays this season.
- Make Monmouth 2-1 versus Drexel this season.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Drexel are meeting for the 13th time in women's basketball competition.
- Drexel leads the all-time series, 7-5.
- Monmouth won the first meeting of the season, 50-47, on Feb. 7.
- Drexel answered with a victory in the second meeting, 75-65, on Feb. 28.
- The two teams met in the CAA Quarterfinals last season, as well, where the Dragons were victorious, 58-56.
 
NEXT UP
- With a win, the Hawks will continue their run through the 2025 Coastal Athletic Association Women's Basketball Championship in the semifinals versus the winner of top-seeded North Carolina A&T and ninth-seeded William & Mary.