2025-26 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Thirty-One
                                                                                     
No. 5 Monmouth Hawks (20-10, 12-7 CAA) vs. No. 4 Stony Brook Seawolves (17-14, 12-6 CAA)
Thursday, March 13, 2026 – 2:30 p.m.
CareFirst Arena, Washington, D.C.
 
Please find PDF of full notes attached.
 
TV: FloCollege
 
Quick Bullets
- Monmouth meets #4 Stony Brook in the CAA Quarterfinals on Friday
- The Hawks are coming off a win over #13 UNCW, 72-61
- MU forced a season-high 15 steals vs. a D-I opponent
- The win marked the seventh 20-win season in program history and first of Cait Wetmore's career
- MU has surpassed last season's ovr. and conf. win totals
- Divine Dibula is top 10 in the CAA in both scoring and rebounding, while ranking inside the top 20 in the nation shooting 58.4% from the field
- Gigi Gamble notched 41 points vs. Towson in the last game of the regular season - the most by a CAA player this season
- Gamble (14.8), Dibula (13.3) and Alexis Andrews (10.5) seek to become the first Hawks trio to average double-digits in scoring in 24 seasons ('02-03)
- Gamble (First Team), Dibula (Second Team) and Madalena Amaro (Rookie Team) all earned All-CAA honors
- Monmouth has made the CAA Quarterfinals in each of the previous three seasons
 
A Monmouth Win Would...
- Advance Monmouth to the CAA Semifinals for the second time ever
- Improve Monmouth to 7-2 all-time in the CAA Tournament
- Give the Hawks their 21st win of the season
- Be the first win in three tries over Stony Brook this season
- Make the Hawks 3-1 in March games this year
- Make the Hawks a 6-3 on Fridays this season
 
More Info on the All-Time Series
- Stony Brook leads the all-time series, 7-5
- The Seawolves defeated the Hawks in both meetings during the regular season
- SBU won by 10 on Feb. 1 on Long Island and by eight in West long Branch on Feb. 13
- Ella Farrelly recorded a double-double (10p, 10r) in the second matchup
- MU was outscored 20-9 in the fourth quarter in the second meeting during the regular season
- These teams have never met in the CAA Tournament
 
Next Up
- The winner advances to the CAA Semifinals on Saturday, March 14 at 2:00 p.m. and will meet the winner of No. 1 Charleston / No. 8 William & Mary.
- The Hawks are a combined 2-0 versus those teams this season.