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Follow on Twitter St. Bonaventure, N.Y. (March 6, 2015) - The Fordham University Rams close out their 2014-2015 Atlantic 10 regular season, the 112th season of varsity basketball at Rose Hill, by traveling to St. Bonaventure, N.Y., to face the St. Bonaventure University Bonnies in the Reilly Center on Saturday, March 7, at 4:00 p.m. in a game that will be streamed on the Atlantic 10 Digital Network and also broadcast on WFUV and www.wfuvsports.org.
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 9-19 overall record, 4-13 in the Atlantic 10, following an 81-66 conference loss to Duquesne in the Rose Hill Gym on Wednesday. St. Bonaventure enters the game with a 16-12 overall record, 9-8 in the A-10, after a 64-48 league win at Saint Louis on Wednesday.
Saturday afternoon's contest will be the 37th meeting between Fordham and St. Bonaventure on the hardwood with the Bonnies leading the all-time series, which started in the 1955-56 season, 21-15. St. Bonaventure took last year's match-up, 76-65, in the Rose Hill Gym on February 13 as Andell Cumberbatch and Matthew Wright each netted 18 points for St. Bonaventure while
Branden Frazier and
Mandell Thomas both scored 20 for the Rams.
Notes* The game will determine whether the Rams finish 12
th or 13
th in the Atlantic 10 but it won't affect Fordham's game time at the 2015 Atlantic 10 Championship on Wednesday as the 12
th and 13
th seed face off in the first game at 6:30 p.m. at the Barclays Center. If the Rams win, they will clinch the 12
th seed. A Fordham loss and a George Mason win at VCU on Saturday will drop the Rams to 13
th.
Mandell Thomas* With his career-high 29 points at Massachusetts last Saturday, junior guard
Mandell Thomas became the 35th Ram to score 1,000 career points. Thomas currently has 1,019 career points, good for 34th on the Fordham all-time scoring list.
* With his 13 rebounds against Duquesne on Wednesday, junior forward
Ryan Rhoomes brought his career total to 616, moving him into 18th place on the Fordham career rebounding list.
* 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 fifth in the Atlantic 10 in scoring with a 16.5 ppg average while also pulling down 5.6 rpg, while Sengfelder is averaging 11.5 ppg and 7.3 rpg.
* Through games of March 5, the Fordham Rams are back to their old habits of controlling the boards, averaging 36.4 rpg, fourth best in the Atlantic 10, and a +3.6 rpg margin, third best in the conference. Last year, the Rams averaged 37.2 rpg.
The Rams are especially adept on the offensive boards, averaging 12.3 offensive rpg, third best in the conference.
* Through games of March 5, the Fordham Rams have the Atlantic 10's fifth leading scorer, and top freshman scorer, in freshman guard
Eric Paschall (16.5 ppg) while
Mandell Thomas leads the conference in steals (2.3/game). The Rams also have the fourth leading rebounder in junior forward
Ryan Rhoomes (8.8 rpg) while Rhoomes is also seventh in the conference in blocked shots, averaging 1.3/game, and Paschall is sixth in free throw shooting (80.0%) and Thomas is sixth in assists with a 3.7 apg average.
apropos of nothing: St. Bonaventure is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Allegany in Cattaraugus County, New York. The population was 2,044 at the 2010 census. St. Bonaventure has a total area of 2.1 square miles, of which 2.0 square miles is land and 0.15 square miles is water.
Allegany was first settled around 1820 by Ebenezer Reed who moved from Connecticut. According to Wikipedia, famous Allegany natives include geneticist Leon Jacob Cole, Civil War sergeant Willard M. Smith and former Major League Baseball pitcher Charlie Reynolds, who played in one game for the Kansas City Cowboys and 12 games for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms during the 1889 season.
