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Follow on Twitter Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham University men's basketball Rams continue their 2016 Atlantic 10 season, the 113th season of varsity basketball at Rose Hill, by traveling to Richmond, Virginia, to face the University of Richmond Spiders in the Robins Center on Saturday, February 13, at 6:00 PM.
The game will be streamed live on the Atlantic 10 Digital Network with Bob Black (p-b-p) and Greg Beckwith (color) announcing and can also be heard live on www.wfuvsports.org with Matt Moro (p-b-p) and James Corrigan (color) announcing
(please note the game will not be broadcast on WFUV (90.7 FM). Follow the links above.
Fordham enters the game with a 12-10 overall record, 3-8 in the Atlantic 10, and is coming off a 76-72 overtime A-10 loss to St. Bonaventure in the Rose Hill Gym on Wednesday night. Richmond enters with a 13-10 overall record, 5-6 in the conference, after a 67-53 league win at Saint Louis on Wednesday.
Saturday night's contest will be the 23rd meeting between Fordham and Richmond on the hardwood. Richmond leads the all-time series, which started in the 1984-85 season, 15-7. The Spiders have won the last ten meetings, including a 93-82 win earlier this year on January 10 in the Rose Hill Gym as ShawnDre' Jones netted a game-high 35 points and Marshall Wood added 29, hitting seven threes. Prior to the current Richmond ten-game winning streak, the Rams had won five straight meetings, including two wins over the Spiders in 2006-07, 58-55 in the Robins Center on January 6th, and 63-61, in the first round of the Atlantic 10 Championship in Atlantic City.
Notes• The Rams are looking for their second A-10 road win of the season for the first time since 2007-2008 and the first back-to-back A-10 road wins since 2006-2007.
• The 12 wins in 2015-2016 are the most for a Fordham team since the 2007-2008 squad won 12 times.
• Fordham senior forward
Ryan Rhoomes is ranked third in the NCAA in field goal percentage, hitting 67.2 percent of his shots (129-192). The school record for single season field goal percentage is .616 by Damon Lopes in 1990-1991.
• Senior guard
Mandell Thomas enters the game with 1,345 career points, 14th on the Fordham all-time scoring list. Thomas is 27 points behind Charlie Yelverton (1968-1971) for 13th on the list.
• With his nine rebounds in the St. Bonaventure game, forward
Ryan Rhoomes brought his career total to 821, good for seventh place on the Fordham career rebounding list. Rhoomes is 96 behind John Stevens (1962-1965) for sixth on the all-time list.
• Fordham head coach
Jeff Neubauer's teams at Eastern Kentucky were well known for their defensive prowess, routinely ranking at the top of the NCAA in steals and his first Fordham team is no different, recording 196 steals in 2015-2016 (8.9/game), second in the Atlantic 10 and tenth in the NCAA. The Rams have recorded ten or more steals in a contest ten times this season. Leading the Rams defense is senior guard
Mandell Thomas (2.45), who leads the conference in steals/game.
