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Season Ticket Order Info Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham University men's basketball Rams will start the
Jeff Neubauer era on Saturday as they participate in their first official practice of the 2015-2016 season in the Rose Hill Gym.
Neubauer takes over the reins of the Fordham program after ten years at Eastern Kentucky University where he led the Colonels to five 20-win seasons, including each of the past three years, and five trips to national postseason tournaments, including a berth in the 2014 NCAA Championships where the Colonels nearly upset second-seeded Kansas in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
RAMBLINGS 
The Rams will be led into the season by seniors
Mandell Thomas,
Ryan Rhoomes and graduate student
Ryan Canty.
Thomas, who was second on the team in scoring last year (13.3 ppg), became the 35th Ram to score 1,000 career points and enters the 2015-2016 campaign with 1,064 career points, good for 29th on the Fordham all-time scoring list.
Senior forward
Ryan Rhoomes is climbing the Fordham career rebounding list, pulling down a team-high 268 last year (8.6 rpg) to bring his career total to 635, placing him 15th on the Fordham career rebounding list.
Canty returns after missing the entire 2014-2015 season with an injury. He averaged 6.2 rpg in 2013-2014 and pulled down 19 in the Atlantic 10 championship win over George Mason, the second most in an A-10 Championship contest.
Sophomore forward
Christian Sengfelder averaged 7.1 rpg in his rookie season, good for ninth in the Atlantic 10 and eighth among all NCAA Division I freshmen.
The 2014-2015 Fordham Rams had many players listed among the Atlantic 10's statistical leaders, including
Mandell Thomas, who led the conference in steals (2.4/game).Thomas also ranked seventh in assists (3.7/game), eighth in assist/turnover ratio (1.7) and 12th in scoring (13.3 ppg) while
Ryan Rhoomes was fifth in rebounding (8.6 rpg) and seventh in the conference in blocked shots (1.3/ game).
Christian Sengfelder enjoyed a solid rookie campaign, ranking tenth in the A-10 in rebounding (7.1) and 14th in field goal percentage (.495).
The Rams will play nine of their eleven non-conference games in the historic Rose Hill Gym. The only non-conference tilts outside of the venue are the season opener at Texas Arlington and the final non-conference game against Boston College at the Barclays Center.
Included in the nine non-conference home games is a visit by St. John's to the Rose Hill Gym, the Red Storm's first appearance in the venue since 2010.
Fans purchasing a season ticket will be available to purchase up to four additional general admission seats to the St. John's game and will receive one free general admission ticket to the Queens College contest.
