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Twitter Updates @FordhamWBBBRONX, N.Y. -- The third-place Fordham women's basketball team (17-8, 9-3 A10) looks to return to the win column Wednesday night when it welcomes second-play Dayton (19-5, 10-2 A10) inside the Rose Hill Gym for a critical Atlantic 10 matchup, with tipoff slated for 7 p.m.
The contest will be the annual Play 4 Kay game, which helps raise funds for breast cancer, research and awareness. All proceeds raised from the game go to the Kay Yow Foundation, named after the legendary North Carolina State head coach who died in 2009.
Last Time OutFordham could not hold a four-point halftime lead and fell to Rhode Island, 71-56, Sunday (2/15) inside the Ryan Center in Kingston, R.I.
Fordham trailed 17-9 early on, but used a 21-6 run to take a 30-23 lead with 3:22 to go in the first half, before eventually going into the locker room leading 32-28. URI then came out of the break and scored the first eight points and took the lead for good at 36-32 with 18:15 left in the game.
The Rams trimmed the deficit to 46-43 on freshman
G'mrice Davis' layup with 11:33 remaining, but URI responded with seven in a row to stretch its lead out to 53-43 at the 10:01 mark. Fordham got back to within seven at 57-50 with 5:05 to go, but it was as close as the Rams would come, with URI cruising to the 71-56 victory after outscoring Fordham, 43-24, in the second half.
The Rams turned the ball over 21 times and forced URI into just 12 miscues. Fordham also cooled off in the second half (37.0 percent) after shooting 13-of-27 over the first 20 minutes. The Rams finished at 42.6 percent (23-of-54) from the field, while URI shot at a 44.8 percent (26-of-58) clip, including 50 percent in the second half. URI also knocked down 17-of-23 free throws, which included 14-of-16 after halftime, and the Rams only knocked down 6-of-13. Both teams recorded 36 rebounds.
Junior
Samantha Clark led the way with 16 points on 7-of-11 shooting and eight boards, while senior
Emily Tapio added 12 points, four rebounds and five assists. Sophomore
Hannah Missry also netted 12 points on four three's, Davis chipped in 10, and graduate student
Tiffany Ruffin handed out a game-high nine assists to go along with five boards.
Dayton2014-15 Season: 19-5 (10-2 A10)
When: Wednesday, Feb. 18 - 7 p.m.
Where: Bronx, N.Y. (Rose Hill Gym)
Series History: Dayton leads 19-5 since (since Jan. 18, 1996)
Last Meeting: March 9, 2014 - Fordham 63 Dayton 51 (in Richmond, Va.)
What You Need To Know: The Flyers, who were picked to win the conference this season, currently sit all alone in second place (one game behind George Washington, who has handed them both of their conference losses) and are receiving votes in the AP Top 25 Poll. Dayton ranks 15th nationally in three-point field goal percentage (.372) and 16th in free throw percentage (.753), which both lead the conference, while the Flyers 75.8 points per game, .431 field goal percentage and 4.9 blocks per game also rank first. Dayton is also outscoring its opponents by 10.8 points per game (second in the A-10). Senior Andrea Hoover is the second-leading scorer in the conference at 18.8 points per game. She also ranks first in free throw percentage (.898, 114-of-127), first in three-point field goal percentage (.484, 61-of-126), and fourth in three-point makes per game (2.5) while dishing out 3.4 assists per game, which ranks 12th in the A-10, and grabbing 7.2 rebounds per game, which ranks 9th, to go along with a team-best 36 steals. Fellow classmate Ally Malott adds 15.6 points and a team-leading 7.6 rebounds per game (7th A-10) and is shooting a team-best 48.4 percent (135-of-279) from the field and connects at 38.4 percent (28-of-73) from three-point range. Junior Jodie Cornelie leads the conference with 63 blocks (2.6 blocks per game).
Up NextThe Rams return to the road this Saturday, Feb. 21 when they travel to Washington, D.C. to take on first-place and nationally-ranked George Washington, with tipoff slated for 2 p.m.
