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Bronx, N.Y. – Fordham (13-7, 5-2) returns house to host Richmond (12-6, 2-3) on Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. after which travels to Saint Louis on Saturday at 8 p.m. Jap.
Wednesday’s sport will probably be on SNY; each contests will probably be on ESPN+ and WFUV. All methods to comply with alongside may be discovered on the schedule web page above.
Satisfaction Night time!
Tomorrow’s sport is our PRIDE evening! Followers are inspired to put on colours of the rainbow (all of them!) in help of the LGBTQ+ communities!
Ramses Problem
Be part of the Ramses Problem, a brand new philanthropic initiative supporting our student-athletes! Pledge a set sum of money for every three-pointer or steal this yr, or make a one-time present to this system. All proceeds are tax-deductible and go on to Fordham ladies’s basketball. Learn extra right here. To this point, the Rams have 165 made threes and a whopping 174 steals! Thanks for all of your continued help!
Final Time Out
The Rams rebounded from their loss to UMass with a whirlwind 71-65 victory at Saint Joseph’s on Sunday. Fordham barely missed within the first half, scoring 27 factors within the first quarter and holding a 43-25 lead at halftime whereas taking pictures 64.2% from the sector. The Hawks, nevertheless, rallied furiously within the third quarter, outscoring the guests, 25-11, within the third interval to get inside 4, 54-50, heading into the fourth, the place they’d get inside three on a number of events. The Rams by no means allowed Saint Joseph’s to take management of the sport, although, whereas making clutch photographs down the stretch.
Asiah Dingle completed with a game-high 21 factors on 10-of-17 taking pictures, whereas Anna DeWolfe added 18 environment friendly factors, taking pictures 7-of-13 general and 4-of-8 from distance. Dingle added six rebounds, 4 steals, and three assists, all tops on the staff. Jada Dapaa, making her first begin for the Rams, corralled six rebounds, as did Kaitlyn Downey, whereas Colleen McQuillen knocked down three three-points for 9 factors and Matilda Flood produced six factors, 4 boards, and three dimes off the bench. Fordham shot 48.3% from the sector, 11-of-24 from deep, however had been outrebounded and dedicated 15 turnovers, as did the Hawks.
Iron Girls
Kaitlyn Downey set this system file for profession begins on Sunday, her 127th, in her 133rd profession look, third-most all-time. Downey has by no means missed a contest, making all appearances consecutively since arriving on Rose Hill. Anna DeWolfe will seem in her 100th consecutive sport tomorrow evening, all begins.
Collection Histories
Richmond – The Spiders maintain a 14-9 all-time sequence benefit over the Rams since 1988 when the 2 faculties met at a event held by Georgia Tech. The following assembly was after Richmond joined the Atlantic 10 in 2001-02, a 22-point win within the Bronx. The Spiders rattled off 10 victories after that however since 2013, Fordham is 8-3, though final yr Richmond gained, 79-69.
Saint Louis – The all-time sequence is tied up, 11-11, because the Billikens joined the Atlantic 10 in 2005-06. It has been back-and-forth the complete means however lately it has been largely Fordham within the driver’s seat, successful 5 of the final seven contests. The 2 faculties did not meet final yr as a consequence of their sport being cancelled due to a COVID-19 outbreak, however Fordham most lately gained, 72-63, at Chaifetz Area in 2021. Anna DeWolfe scored 26 factors in that one, whereas Kaitlyn Downey netted a career-high 24 factors, the 2 combining for 9 threes and every with 5 assists.
Nationally Talking (as of 1/23)
Fordham have performed at a a lot quicker tempo this season, averaging 72.4 factors per contest, which ranks sixty fourth within the nation. The offense’s 1.12 help/turnover ratio, third within the Atlantic 10, sits forty fifth nationally. The staff’s current stoop from distance has dropped the offense down from twelfth to thirty first with 8.2 makes per sport and from forty eighth to 76th in share, now at 34.0%. The Rams are dispensing the 68th-most assists per sport (15.3) whereas committing simply 13.7 turnovers per sport, ranked forty fourth. The offense can be hitting free throws on the Twenty fifth-best price (77.4%) regardless of taking the 343rd-fewest makes an attempt (11.05).
Individually, Asiah Dingle is 14th in steals per sport, eleventh in subject objectives, and twenty third in factors per sport. Kaitlyn Downey is twenty second in defensive rebounds per sport, 81st in whole boards per sport, and forty sixth in double-doubles. Anna DeWolfe is forty first in factors per sport, nineteenth in whole threes, sixteenth in subject objectives, thirty seventh in threes per sport, and thirty ninth in minutes per sport.
Triple D – DeWolfe, Dingle, Downey
Shut the entrance door! The Fordham trio have been gnarly, righteous, dynamite, and, maybe most significantly, the bomb-dot-com. All three earned Atlantic 10 All-Convention honors and had at the very least one A-10 Participant of the Week award final season. Mixed, they made up 66.1% of the staff’s scoring on a mixed 40.2% taking pictures general. They’re the actual deal. By way of three video games up to now, these numbers are comparable – 67.1% of the scoring on 43.0% taking pictures. For context for the uninitiated, this complete blurb is an ode to Man Fieri’s Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
Three 1,000-Level Scorers
Along with her powerful turnaround second-quarter jumper at Princeton, Kaitlyn Downey turned the Twenty fifth Ram to attain 1,000 factors in program historical past. Now fifteenth with 1,172 factors after passing three former Rams at Dayton, she joins Asiah Dingle (1,837 throughout three faculties and 5 seasons) and Anna DeWolfe (1,658 – fifth-most in class historical past). Nationally, the Rams are considered one of 11 faculties with three lively student-athletes with 1,000 profession factors, though they’re considered one of solely two mid-major faculties, together with UMass. Virginia Tech has 4 1,000-point scorers.
Hungry Like DeWolfe
The 2020-21 Atlantic 10 Co-Participant of the Yr and two-time WBCA All-America honorable point out, senior Anna DeWolfe is averaging 18.2 factors per sport on 42.4% taking pictures general and 37.0% taking pictures from distance (54-of-146). Named to the Preseason All-Convention First Crew, she turned the twenty fourth Ram to achieve 1,000 profession factors on December 12, 2021 towards Lafayette, doing so on a patented mid-range jumper, hitting nothing however web, and is now as much as fifth all-time with 1,658 factors.
For her profession, throughout 99 consecutive begins, DeWolfe is fourth with 652 subject objectives, tied for fourth with Lauren Holden with 213 three-pointers, fifth with a profession 16.7 per-game scoring common, is eighth with a 82.9% price the road, and has now joined the all-time top-10 for profession minutes performed final Wednesday, tenth with 3,640.
Dingle All The Method
The Boston native is as much as 129 profession appearances throughout three faculties and four-plus seasons, now with 111 profession begins, beginning all however one contest for Fordham since she arrived. Final yr a Third Crew All-Convention choice and now a preseason Second Crew honoree, Dingle leads the staff in scoring (19.5 factors), assists (63), and steals (61), whereas taking pictures 45.3% from the ground, 35.2% from behind the arc, and 76.9% on a team-high 78 free-throw makes an attempt.
For her profession, she has collected 1,837 factors, averaging 14.2 per sport, 658 subject objectives, 287 steals, and a 399 help/419 turnover ratio. She is a 42.9% profession taking pictures with averages of 4.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists, and a couple of.2 steals per sport. Previous to her arrival within the Bronx, Dingle was a 19.2% three-point shooter on 104 profession makes an attempt. Final yr she shot 18-of-64 (28.1%) and has continued to work at her long-range shot, taking pictures 35.2% this yr on an already-career-high 91 makes an attempt.
Amongst lively gamers in Division I, she has been in a three-way battle all season for steals alongside Michigan State’s Stephanie Visscher and Gardner-Webb’s Jhessyka Williams, however is presently tops within the nation, 9 forward of the latter. She’s additionally tenth with 451 free throws made and sixth with 623 makes an attempt.
Downey Transferring Up
The graduate ahead broke this system file at Saint Joseph’s on Sunday for profession begins, with 127, surpassing Samantha Clark (’17), and has appeared in 133 consecutive contests since arriving within the Bronx. At Princeton earlier this season, she turned the Twenty fifth Ram to achieve 1,000 profession factors. She’s as much as fifteenth now with 1,172, passing Cecelia Wanker (’83), Hannah Missry (’17), and former teammate and now assistant coach Lauren Holden (’19) at Dayton. In opposition to Wagner she moved into the all-time top-10 for profession rebounds and simply handed each Sharon Nast (’86) and former teammate Kendell Heremaia (’22) for fifth with 824. Additionally on Sunday she turned the ninth Ram to achieve 200 profession three-pointers, now eighth with 201.
The place Do The 2022-23 Rams Stand in Program Historical past?
Fordham is enjoying at a a lot quicker tempo this season and its 72.4 factors per sport common, sixty fourth within the nation, is an ideal instance of that. Actually, that will be second solely to the historic 1978-79 squad for this system file (73.8). In consequence, with one other 10 or so video games left on the schedule, this staff will certainly threaten the file for made subject objectives, each contained in the arc and out, whereas the staff’s present 77.4% free-throw clip and 1.12 help/turnover ratio would rank second.
Asiah and Co. Steal the Present
You thought Asiah Dingle’s 5 steals within the season opener was a handful? She doubled that with a program-record 10 towards Saint Peter’s, notching her ninth and tenth on consecutive possessions within the third quarter. Her earlier finest was six, which she’d completed a number of instances over her profession, together with as soon as with Fordham. The earlier faculty file was eight, finished 5 instances by 4 student-athletes, however not since Lauren Fleischer in 2001. Her teammates added 11 thefts towards the Peacocks to set a brand new single-game staff file, as nicely, by three, with 21.
Up Subsequent
The Rams kick February off with a visit to St. Bonaventure subsequent Wednesday evening at 7 p.m.