Men’s Basketball Opens Play at 2014 Atlantic 10 Championship on Wednesday

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Brooklyn, N.Y. (March 12, 2014) - The Fordham University men's basketball squad opens play at the 2014 Atlantic 10 Championship as they face the George Mason University Patriots in the Barclays Center on Wednesday night, March 12, at 7:00 p.m.
 
The game will be streamed live on the Atlantic 10 Digital Network and BarclaysCenter.com with Tom Kolker (p-b-p) and Lenn Robbins (color) announcing and will be broadcast on WFUV (90.7 FM) and www.wfuv.org and can be followed live via livestats. Follow the links above.


Fordham, the 13 seed, enters the game with a 9-20 overall record, 2-14 in the Atlantic 10, after a 70-67 conference loss to George Washington in the regular season finale in the Rose Hill Gym on Saturday. George Mason, the 12 seed, enters the game with a 11-19 overall record, 4-11 in the Atlantic 10, after an 81-69 conference loss to Duquesne in Fairfax in the final game of the regular season on Saturday.
 
The Rams will be led into the game by the top scoring backcourt in the Atlantic 10, senior guard Branden Frazier, a preseason Third Team All-Atlantic 10 pick, and freshman guard Jon Severe, a product of Christ the King High School. Frazier, who is averaging 24.3 ppg over the past three, is averaging 18.0 ppg, second in the Atlantic 10, while Severe, a four-time Atlantic 10 rookie of the week, is averaging 17.6 ppg, third best in the conference.
 
Frazier has 1,598 career points, ninth on the Fordham all-time, and he has 487 career assists, second all-time at Fordham, while Severe has accumulated 509 points so far in his rookie campaign, setting a new school freshman scoring mark.
 
Wednesday night's contest will be the third meeting between Ford­ham and George Mason on the hardwood. The Rams took the first two meetings, including a 76-70 win earlier this year on January 22 in the Rose Hill Gym as Branden Frazier netted 22 points for the Rams and Jon Severe added 21. Fordham won the first matchup, 64-55, on December 30, 2000 in the consolation game of the Cable Car Classic at Santa Clara.