League Release | A-10 Fordham Season Preview
 
Newport News, Va. – Redshirt junior Bre Cavanaugh has been predicted by the Atlantic 10's head coaches to repeat as a member of the All-Conference First Team, the league office announced on Thursday. Cavanaugh was named to the Second Team as a freshman. Joining her on the First Team are Davidson's Sarah Donovan, Dayton's Jayla Scaife, George Mason's Nicole Cardaño-Hillary, Saint Louis' Ciaja Harbison, and VCU's Tera Reed.
 
"Bre has gotten better every year and I believe this season is no exception," Head coach Stephanie Gaitley said, "I felt Bre played her best basketball in the conference tournament and will use that to fuel her this season. Aside from being an outstanding player, she was also a unanimous choice for team captain. That shows great growth on and off the court. I'm glad she plays for us!"
 
Cavanaugh, the program's first-ever Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association Player and Rookie of the Year each of the last two years, respectively, is coming off a sophomore campaign in which she finished second in the league in scoring, with 17.1 points per contest, becoming just the third Ram to earn First Team honors, and leading her team to the 2019 Atlantic 10 championship, plus a share of the program's first-ever regular season title.
 
The Allamuchy, N.J. native started all 34 games for a second consecutive year, making it 68 straight starts since donning the maroon and white, and became the third-fastest student-athlete to reach 1,000 career points in school history, in just 60 games, and 21^st overall. She added 6.4 rebounds, 84 assists, 32 steals, and a team-high 74 three-pointers, joint-fifth-most for a single campaign and part of the squad's school record 267 total threes on the year.
 
Cavanaugh was a four-time Atlantic 10 Player of the Week, earned Player of the Week honors once from each of the NCAA, the MBWA, and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU), and was an ESPNW honorable mention, as well. She earned All-Tournament honors at both the Gulf Coast Showcase and the Fordham Holiday Classic, was a member of the A-10's All-Championship squad, and earned ECAC honorable mention.
 
Cavanaugh's 581 points last year ranked eighth all-time and is now up to 14^th already with 1,159 career points. She is also up to eighth all-time with 260 free throws made, ninth with 141 career three-pointers, seventh with an 82.8% conversion rate at the charity stripe, and is fourth all-time with an average of 17.0 points per game. She had 13 20-point performances last year and scored in double figures in all but three contests.
 
On Tuesday, Fordham was predicted to finish third for a second straight year in the annual preseason coaches poll, garnering one first-place vote. The Rams open their 2019-20 season against last year's national runners-up Notre Dame on Tuesday night, November 5, at 7 p.m.