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Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham University men's basketball Rams continue their 2017-2018 Atlantic 10 season, the 115th season of varsity basketball at Rose Hill, by traveling to Davidson, N.C., to face the Davidson College Wildcats in Belk Arena on Wednesday, February 21, at 7:00 p.m.
The game will be streamed live on the Atlantic 10 Digital Network with John Kilgo (p-b-p) and Jarod Latch (color) announcing and broadcast on WFUV (90.7 FM) and
www.wfuvsports.org with Matt Murphy (p-b-p) and Tom Scibelli (color) announcing.
Fordham enters the game with a 9-17 overall record, 4-10 in the Atlantic 10, after an 80-70 A-10 loss at Dayton on Saturday night while Davidson is 15-10 overall, 10-5 in the conference, after an 83-78 A-10 win over Massachusetts in Belk Arena on Saturday.
Wednesday night's contest will be the seventh meeting between Fordham and Davidson on the hardwood with the Wildcats, who took the first two meetings, leading the all-time series, 4-2. Davidson took this year's first meeting, 75-45, on January 14 in the Rose Hill Gym as Jon Axel Gudmundsson scored 18 points and Kellan Grady added 14.
Notes
• Senior guard
Will Tavares, who leads the Rams in scoring (14.0 ppg), has scored in double figures in 19 of his 23 games this year with a double-double in each of the past two games. He is currently 19th in the Atlantic 10 in scoring but has missed the past two games with an injury.
• Tavares does most of his damage in the second half of games where he is averaging 9.1 ppg (compared to 4.9 in the first half).
• After averaging just over 17 minutes per game over the first 20 contests this year, sophomore guard
Cavit Havsa has stepped up his game, playing all but two minutes over the past six games.
• Havsa is averaging 8.5 ppg and 2.6 rpg over the past six games, shooting .690 (20-29) from the field and has dished out 38 assists, including a career-high eight in the win over George Mason and the loss to Saint Joseph's, with just 14 turnovers, over that stretch.
• Junior guard
Joseph Chartouny leads the NCAA this year in steals/game with 3.29.
• Chartouny has 229 career steals, good for third place on the Fordham all-time list.
• Chartouny has 411 career helpers, sixth-best in school history.
• Chartouny is one of three Atlantic 10 players to rank in the top 25 in assists, steals and rebounds, joining Davidson's Jon Axel Gudmundsson and Saint Louis' Jordan Goodwin.
• Fordham also leads the league, and is sixth in the nation, in steals with 243 (9.3/game).
