2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Twenty-Eight
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (14-13, 9-7 CAA) vs. Towson Tigers (9-18, 7-9 CAA)
Thursday, March 6, 2025 – 7:00 p.m.
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, N.J.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloCollege/NBC Sports Philadelphia
Play-by-play: Kevin Copp
Analyst: Jackson Heil
 
QUICK BULLETS
- The Hawks play their final road game of the season at Stony Brook on Sunday, Mar. 2.
- MU is coming off a seven-point win at Stony Brook.
- Monmouth sits in fifth place in the CAA standings.
- Taisha Exanor (16), Divine Dibula (15) and Damaris Rodriguez (15) each scored in double figures for MU.
- Kemari Reynolds made her first start since Nov. 17.
- MU has beaten each of the top three teams in the current CAA standings (N.C. A&T, Charleston and Drexel).
- Rodriguez recorded 13 assists in an overtime loss at UNCW, a mark that tied a single-game program record.
- Exanor enters the final weekend third in the CAA in rebounding (9.0/game). She ranks second in the conference with 6.9 DRPG.
- MU ranks first in the CAA, first in the state of New Jersey, and 21st in the nation with 4.7 blocks per game.
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Improve MU to 15-13 on the season.
- Improve MU to 10-7 in CAA games this season.
- Make Monmouth 10-3 in home contests this season.
- Make MU 2-0 in the month of March.
- Improve MU to 2-1 on Thursdays this season.
- Be a season series sweep for MU over Towson.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Towson are meeting for the 6th time in women's basketball competition.
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 4-1.
- The Hawks have won four straight meetings.
- Monmouth won the first meeting of the season, 56-54, on Jan 10.
- It was the first career CAA road win for Head Coach Cait Wetmore.
- Monmouth held the Tigers to shoot just 7.1% (1-of-14) from three-point range.
- Belle Kranbuhl had a career-high 22 points on 11-of-13 shooting.
- Ella Farrelly played all 40 minutes and recorded a double-double.
- The series as CAA foes is tied, 2-2.
 
NEXT UP
- The Hawks host Senior Day in the final game of the regular season Saturday, March 8 versus Elon.
- The game will be broadcast live on FloCollege and SNY at 2 p.m.
- The all-time series is tied, 2-2.
- Monmouth won the first meeting of the season, 62-47, on Feb. 2.
- After trailing at the half, the Hawks outscored the Phoenix 21-5 in the third quarter behind 81.8% (9-of-11) shooting from the field.
- Elon shot just 29.2% - the third time this season MU kept an opponent under 30% for a game.
- Divine Dibula had a career-high 18 points and recorded her second career double-double.
- Ella Farrelly was a game-high +19.