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Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham University men's basketball Rams continue their 2017-2018 season, the 115th season of varsity basketball at Rose Hill, by facing the Tulane University Green Wave in the Montego Bay Convention Centre on Sunday, November 19, at 7:30 p.m.
The game, which is part of the 2017 Jamaica Classic, will be broadcast live on the CBS Sports Network with Bill Roth (p-b-p) and Daymeon Fishback (color) announcing and broadcast on WFUV (90.7 FM) and
www.wfuvsports.org with Matt Murphy (p-b-p) and Tom Scibelli (color) announcing. Follow the links above.
Fordham enters the game with a 1-2 record and is coming off a 67-43 loss to Florida State University on Friday night in Montego Bay while Tulane is a perfect 3-0 after an 80-53 win over Colorado State in Montego Bay on Friday afternoon.
Sunday night's contest will be the second meeting between Fordham and Tulane on the hardwood. The Green Wave took the first meeting, 80-69, in the season-opener in 1999 in the New Orleans Arena. The game was the first sporting event played in the new arena.
Notes
• Senior guard
Will Tavares netted a career-high 18 points in the Florida State game while junior guard
Joseph Chartouny grabbed a career-best eleven rebounds.
• Freshman guard/forward
Ivan Raut set a school record for three-pointers by a freshman when he connected on seven in the win over LIU on Monday (the school record is ten by Jason Harris against Quinnipiac in 1999).
• Junior forward
Prokop Slanina recorded his first career double-double with 19 points and eleven rebounds against LIU, both career-highs.
• For the second straight year, Fordham University junior guard
Joseph Chartouny was named to the Preseason All-Atlantic 10 Team. He was also named to the preseason All-Defensive Team.
• Chartouny, who leads the Atlantic 10 in steals (4.3/game), has 163 career steals, good for ninth on the Fordham all-time list.
• The 2017-2018 Rams lead the Atlantic 10 in three-point field goal percentage (.242) while ranking second in both defensive scoring average (63.3 points/game) and field goal percentage (.396).
• After recording 263 steals in 2015-2016, the fourth most in a single season for a Ram squad, the 2016-2017 team surpassed that with 315 steals, the second most in a season in school history (the school record for steals in a year is 350, set by the 1981-1982 team).
• The Rams have 30 steals over the first three games, tops in the Atlantic 10.
• Fordham will close out play at the 2017 Jamaica Classic by facing Tulane University on Sunday night at 7:30 p.m.
