2024-25 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Twenty-Nine
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (15-13, 10-7 CAA) vs. Elon Phoenix (14-14, 8-9 CAA)
Saturday, March 8, 2025 – 2:00 p.m.
OceanFirst Bank Center, West long Branch, N.J.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloCollege/SNY
Play-by-play: Kevin Copp
Analyst: Dominique Patrick
 
QUICK BULLETS
- The Hawks host their regular season finale and Senior Day versus Elon on Saturday, March 8.
- MU is coming off a 26-point win over Towson - the largest margin of victory for the Hawks this season.
- Taisha Exanor went off for a career high 29 points and added 15 rebounds.
- Four Hawks finished in double figures for the second time this season.
- Monmouth sits alone in fifth place in the CAA standings and can clinch the fifth seed with a win or Delaware loss.
- Monmouth will be the sixth seed in the CAA Tournament with a loss and Delaware win.
- MU has beaten each of the top three teams in the current CAA standings (N.C. A&T, Charleston and Drexel).
- MU ranks first in the CAA, first in the state of New Jersey, and 21st in the nation with 4.6 blocks per game.
 
A MONMOUTH WIN WOULD...
- Lock up the fifth seed for MU in the upcoming CAA Tournament.
- Improve MU to 16-13 on the season.
- Improve MU to 11-7 in CAA games this season.
- Make Monmouth 11-3 in home contests this season.
- Make MU a perfect 3-0 in the month of March.
- Improve MU to 2-1 on Saturdays this season.
- Be a season series sweep for MU over Elon.
 
MORE INFO ON THE ALL-TIME SERIES
- Monmouth and Towson are meeting for the 5th time in women's basketball competition.
- 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.
 
NEXT UP
- The Hawks travel to Washington, D.C. to compete in the 2025 Coastal Athletic Association Women's Basketball Championship Tournament.
- Monmouth is 4-1 all-time in CAA Tournament games and have one title (2023).