Men’s Basketball Travels to Richmond on Wednesday

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Richmond, Va. (February 10, 2015) - The Fordham University Rams continue their 2014-2015 season, the 112th season of varsity basketball at Rose Hill, and continue their Atlantic 10 season by traveling to Richmond, Va., to face the University of Richmond Spiders in the Robins Center on Wednesday, February 11, at 7:00 p.m.
 
The game will be streamed live on the Atlantic 10 Digital Network and also broadcast on WFUV (90.7 FM) and www.wfuvsports.org and can be followed live via livestats. Follow the links above.
 
Fordham enters the game with a 6-15 overall record, 1-9 in the Atlantic 10, following an 83-65 conference win over Saint Louis in the Rose Hill Gym on Saturday. Richmond enters the game with a 12-11 overall record, 5-5 in the A-10, after a 79-74 league loss to Rhode Island in Richmond on Sunday.
 
Wednesday night's contest will be the 21st meet­ing between Fordham and Richmond on the hardwood with the Spiders leading the all-time series, which started in the 1984-85 season, 13-7. The Spiders have won the last eight meetings, including a sweep of last year's two meetings, an 82-70 win on February 15 in Richmond as Kendall Anthony netted 24 points while Fordham's Jon Severe led all scorers with 28, and a 77-74 overtime win in the Rose Hill Gym on January 11 as Cedrick Lindsay netted 19 points and Terry Allen added 18 for the Spiders while Branden Frazier led all scorers with 29 points.
 
Notes

* Fordham freshman forward Christian Sengfelder was named Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week for the third time this season on Monday. He averaged 15.5 ppg and 12.0 rpg in two games last week for the Rams, including grabbing a season-best 16 rebounds against UMass and tying his season-high with 22 points in the win over Saint Louis.
 
* Fordham freshmen Eric Paschall and Chris Sengfelder are the only set of freshman teammates to be averaging more than 10.0 ppg and 5.0 rpg. Paschall is second in the Atlantic 10 in scoring with a 17.4 ppg average while also pulling down 5.3 rpg, while Sengfelder is averaging 10.9 ppg and 7.0 rpg.
 
* The 2014-2015 Fordham men's basketball squad is becom­ing adept at taking away the ball. Through games of February 8, the Rams are second in the Atlantic 10, averaging 7.0 steals/game, including a season-high eleven in the South Carolina State game on Dec. 31. Junior Mandell Thomas leads the Rams with 48 steals, ranking second in the conference (2.3/game).
 
* Through games of February 8, the Fordham Rams have the Atlantic 10's second leading scorer, and top freshman scorer, in freshman guard Eric Paschall (17.4 ppg) while Mandell Thomas is second in the conference in steals (2.3/game). The Rams also have the fifth leading rebounder in junior forward Ryan Rhoomes (8.9 rpg) while Rhoomes is seventh in the conference in blocked shots, averaging 1.4/game, and Thomas is eighth in assists with a 3.4 apg average.
 
apropos of nothing: Edgar Allan Poe spent time in Richmond, first moving to the city with his mother, who later died when he was two years old. Poe grew up in Richmond and attended the University of Virginia. After leaving Richmond, Poe returned several times to live there.
 
Poe spent most of the final 20 years of his life in the Bronx where he became friendly with the faculty at what was then St. John's College, now Fordham University. He found the faculty to be "highly cultivated gentleman and scholars [who] smoked, drank, and played cards like gentleman, and never said a word about religion."