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Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham University men's basketball Rams continue their 2017-2018 season, the 115th season of varsity basketball at Rose Hill, by facing the Florida State University Seminoles in the Montego Bay Convention Centre on Friday, November 17, at 6:00 p.m.
The game, which is part of the 2017 Jamaica Classic, will be broadcast live on the CBS Sports Network with Bill Roth (p-b-p) and Daymeon Fishback (color) announcing and broadcast on WFUV (90.7 FM) and
www.wfuvsports.org with Matt Murphy (p-b-p) and Tom Scibelli (color) announcing. Follow the links above.
Fordham enters the game coming off an 81-67 win over LIU in the Rose Hill Gym on Monday night while Florida State opened its season on Tuesday night with an 87-67 win over George Washington in Tallahassee.
Friday night's contest will be the first meeting between Fordham and Florida State on the hardwood. The Rams are 6-18 all-time against teams currently in the Southeast Conference.
Notes
• Freshman guard/forward
Ivan Raut set a school record for three-pointers by a freshman when he connected on seven in the win over LIU on Monday (the school record is ten by Jason Harris against Quinnipiac in 1999).
• Junior forward
Prokop Slanina recorded his first career double-double with 19 points and eleven rebounds against LIU, both career-highs.
• For the second straight year, Fordham University junior guard
Joseph Chartouny was named to the Preseason All-Atlantic 10 Team. He was also named to the preseason All-Defensive Team.
• Chartouny has 159 career steals, good for ninth on the Fordham all-time list.
• After recording 263 steals in 2015-2016, the fourth most in a single season for a Ram squad, the 2016-2017 team surpassed that with 315 steals, the second most in a season in school history (the school record for steals in a year is 350, set by the 1981-1982 team).
• The Rams opened the 2017-2018 season with 13 steals against Miami (OH) and then recorded nine against LIU.
• Fordham will close out play at the 2017 Jamaica Classic by facing Tulane University on Sunday night at 7:30 p.m.
