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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 Pittsburgh to face the Duquesne University Dukes in the A.J. Palumbo Center on Wednesday, March 2, at 7:00 PM.
The game will be streamed live on the Atlantic 10 Digital Network and can also be heard live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and on www.wfuvsports.org with Matt Moro (p-b-p) and Matt Murphy (color) announcing. Follow the links above.
Fordham enters the game with a 15-12 overall record, 6-10 in the Atlantic 10, and is coming off a 91-82 A-10 win over Davidson in the Rose Hill Gym on Saturday afternoon. Duquesne enters with a 15-15 overall record, 5-11 in the conference, after an 83-67 league loss to Richmond at home on Saturday afternoon.
Wednesday night's contest will be the 34th meeting between Fordham and Duquesne on the hardwood. The Dukes lead the all-time series, which started in the 1949-50 season, 20-13. Duquesne has taken the past two meetings, including an 81-66 win in the Rose Hill Gym last March 4 as Dominique McCoy and Micah Mason each netted 16 points for the Dukes. The Rams won the 2012-13 meeting, 82-75, in the Rose Hill Gym on January 9 as Chris Gaston scored 18 points and grabbed ten rebounds and Branden Frazier added 16 points and 13 assists.
Notes• The Rams are looking for their seventh Atlantic 10 win of the year, and their third in a row, for the first time since the 2006-2007 (that squad won 10 conference games).
• Fordham senior forward
Ryan Rhoomes has recorded nine double-doubles this year, four in the past five games, the most recent an 18-point, 12-rebound game against Davidson on February 27. Rhoomes now has 16 career double-doubles and has scored in double figures in 24 of the 27 games this year.
• The 15 wins in 2015-2016 are the most for a Fordham team since the 2006-2007 squad won 18 times.
• Fordham senior forward
Ryan Rhoomes is ranked eighth in the NCAA in field goal percentage, hitting 65.1 percent of his shots (157-241). 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 1,351 career points, 14th on the Fordham all-time scoring list. Thomas is 21 points behind Charlie Yelverton (1968-1971) for 13th on the list.
• With his 12 rebounds in the Davidson game, forward
Ryan Rhoomes brought his career total to 879, good for seventh place on the Fordham career rebounding list. Rhoomes is 38 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 231 steals in 2015-2016 (8.6/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 (2.36), who leads the conference in steals/game.
