2025-26 Monmouth Women's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game Thirty-Two
                                                                                     
Monmouth Hawks (20-11, 12-6 CAA) vs. Lehigh Mountain Hawks (17-14, 11-7 Patriot)
Thursday, March 19, 2026 – 6:00 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: Eddy Occhipinti
Analyst: Maria Marino
 
Quick Bullets
- Monmouth makes its third ever WNIT appearance and second in the last three seasons as the Hawks host Lehigh in the First Round
- Monmouth is coming off a loss to #4 Stony Brook, 51-45, in the CAA Quarterfinals
- Cait Wetmore notched her first career 20-win season and the seventh 20-win season in program history
- Divine Dibula is top 10 in the CAA in both scoring and rebounding, while ranking inside the top 20 in the nation shooting 57.9% 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...
- Be the second WNIT win in program history
- Advance the Hawks to the WNIT Second Round for the second time in three seasons
- Give the Hawks their 21st win of the season
- Make the Hawks 3-2 in March games this year
- Make the Hawks a 3-2 on Thursdays this season
 
More Info on the All-Time Series
- Monmouth leads the all-time series, 6-5
- Lehigh has won the last two matchups (2017, 2018) and has won four of the last five meetings
- Monmouth is 2-2 all-time versus the Mountain Hawks in West Lest Branch
- These teams have never met in the postseason
 
Next Up
- The winner advances to the WNIT Second Round to play Cleveland State (24-9) of the Horizon League at a TBD date and time. The Hawks are 0-2 all-time versus Cleveland State.