Women’s Basketball to Host VCU Wednesday at Noon on Kids Day

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BRONX, NY – Fordham (9-5, 1-0) will take on the Atlantic 10 at VCU (3-10, 0-1) at noon Wednesday on SNY, ESPN+ and WFUV in the team’s annual Kids’ Day event. continue the action.

Ramses Challenge

Join the Ramses Challenge, a new philanthropic initiative that supports student-athletes! Pledge, steal, or give the program a one-time gift this year for a certain amount of money for every 3-point. All proceeds are tax deductible and donated directly to Fordham Women’s Basketball. Please check this out for details. So far, the Rams have made her 116 threes and her 126 steals. Thank you for your continued support!

Last timeout

The Rams kicked off the new year and conference play with a 67-64 victory over Davidson on Sunday. For the first time in nearly his eight years, Fordham failed to convert a three-point attempt, but had the fewest total attempts in almost five years. As it happens, both instances came home against LaSalle. The team’s plan was to score on the inside and score. Anna DeWolfe 25 points and Jada Dapper First Fordham double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds off the bench. The Wildcats led most of the contest, but Fordham relented, scoring 14 points as DeWolfe took over in the fourth quarter and the Rams played less than two minutes after answering each of Davidson’s makes. did.

Asia Dingle He had 19 points, 5 rebounds, 4 steals and 2 assists. Kaitlyn Downey One of her season-highs, she handed out a game-high six assists. Megan Jonathan Record 4 points and 5 boards, Matilda Floodalso away from the pines, went through the clutch basket and clutch block late.

Dingle named A-10 Player of the Week for second time
Asia Dingle won the honor for the second time two weeks ago. Learn more about.

Series history

Fordham has held just a 6-5 margin since the (other) Rams joined the Atlantic 10 in 2013. The (Bronx) Rams are 2-2 at home and 1-1 in the A-10 tournament, including a 2019 championship win. Match at Duquesne. Most recently, Fordham snapped a two-game skid against his opponent in his 54-48 win over Richmond last year. Asia Dingle I posted lines 19-6-5 in it.

Nationwide (as of 1/2)

Fordham have played at a much faster tempo this season, averaging 74.1 points per game and ranking 66th in the nation. Offensively, his 1.19 assist/turnover ratio puts him third in the Atlantic 10 and 35th in the nation. Sunday’s three-point drought saw the offense drop from 12th to 37th, where he was 8.3 per game, and the percentage dropped from 48th to 72nd, where he’s now at 34.1%. has become The Rams have his 41st-most assists per game (16.4), while his turnovers per game are just 13.8, which ranks 45th in the nation. His steal rate (9.0) is his 114th highest. The offense is also hitting free throws at the ninth-best rate (79.8%) despite making 342nd-fewer attempts (11.6).

personally, Asia Dingle 13th in steals per game, 27th in field goals, 29th in points per game, 101st in free throws, and 185th in assists per game. Kaitlyn Downey 7th in defensive rebounds per game, 45th in total boards per game, and 14th in double-doubles. Anna DeWolfe They are 63rd in points per game, 33rd in total threes, 29th in field goals, 53rd in threes per game, and 56th in minutes per game.

Triple D – Dewolf, Dingle, Downey

Close the front door! Fordham’s trio is dangerous, righteous, dynamite, and perhaps most importantly, bomb dot com. All three earned his Atlantic 10 All-Conference honors, and last season he won at least one A-10 Player of the Week. Together, they accounted for 66.1% of the team’s scoring on 40.2% total shooting overall. they are real. Through his three games so far, those numbers have been similar, with him scoring 65.9% on 43.4% shooting. For uninitiated context, this whole blurb is an ode to Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-Ins, and his Dives.

3 people who earned 1,000 points

In her tough turnaround second quarter jumper at Princeton, Kaitlyn Downey Achieved 1000 points for the 25th person in the history of the program. Ranked 20th with 1,126 points Asia Dingle (1,714 in three schools and five seasons) and Anna DeWolfe (1,540 – fifth most in school history). Nationally, the Rams are one of 11 schools with three active student-athletes with her 1,000 career points, but the only middle school. Virginia Tech has four.

Asiah and Co. Steal the Show

you thought Asia Dingle Five steals in the season opener were just a handful? She doubled it with a program-record 10 against St. Peters, recording ninth and tenth consecutive possessions in the third quarter. Her best record so far is her six, which she had achieved several times in her previous career, including her one time at Fordham. The previous school record was eight, by four student-athletes she had done five times, but not since Lauren Fleischer in 2001. .

Have you experienced it?

Fordham’s current starting line-up has played a whopping 488 career games this season. Virginia Tech (431st), Oklahoma (427th) and UT Arlington (402nd, if JUCO is included, he is 444th) followed.Fordham now plays up to 558 games in his first five due to alumni transfers Jada Dapper Add 101 from the bench.

Captain +1

5th grade Kaitlyn Downey When Megan Jonathanplus senior Anna DeWolfe, was the team captain last year.They will do so again this year and a new addition Jada DapperIt was Downey’s fourth year as captain, following JJ Ladis’ three years, DeWolf’s three years, and Jonathan’s two years in program history.

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The Rams travel to Dayton for Sunday’s noon showdown on the CBS Sports Network.