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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 hosting the University of Massachusetts Minutemen in the historic Rose Hill Gym on Wednesday, February 17, at 7:00 PM.
The game will be broadcast live on the America Sports Network (ASN) and streamed live on the Atlantic 10 Digital Network with Ed Cohen (p-b-p) and John Griffin (color) announcing and can also be heard live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and on www.wfuvsports.org with Matt Moro (p-b-p) and James Decker (color) announcing. Follow the links above.
Fordham enters the game with a 12-11 overall record, 3-9 in the Atlantic 10, and is coming off a 71-67 A-10 loss at Richmond on Saturday night. Massachusetts enters with a 11-13 overall record, 4-8 in the conference, after a 108-99 overtime league win at Duquesne on Sunday.
Wednesday night's contest will be the 43rd meeting between Fordham and Massachusetts on the hardwood. The Minutemen lead the all-time series, which started in the 1967-68 season, 29-13. The Rams won this year's first matchup, 78-72 in overtime in Amherst as
Joseph Chartouny scored 18 points and added ten rebounds and David Pekárek added eleven points.
Notes• Fordham is looking to defeat UMass for the second time during the regular season for the first time. The last time the Rams defeated a team twice in the regular season was back in 2007 when Fordham defeated both Duquesne and St. Bonaventure twice. (Fordham defeated George Mason twice the past two years but in each season the second win was at the Atlantic 10 Championships).
• Fordham University freshman guard
Joseph Chartouny was named Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week for games played from February 8-14. The award is the fifth overall rookie of the week honor for Chartouny who averaged 14.0 ppg, 5.5 rpg and 7.5 assists/game while also recording four steals in two games last week. His best effort was a 15-point and season-high eleven-assist game on Wednesday versus St. Bonaventure in the Rose Hill Gym for his fourth double-double of the year. The eleven assists surpassed his previous season-high of seven, and he also had five rebounds and four steals in the contest.
• 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 seventh in the NCAA in field goal percentage, hitting 66.0 percent of his shots (134-203). 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 12 rebounds in the Richmond game, forward
Ryan Rhoomes brought his career total to 833, good for seventh place on the Fordham career rebounding list. Rhoomes is 84 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 201 steals in 2015-2016 (8.7/game), second in the Atlantic 10 and eleventh 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.
