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Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham women's basketball team (0-4) will try to pick up its first win of the year against Northeastern (0-3) inside the Rose Hill Gym on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. ESPN+ and WFUV 90.7 FM will carry live coverage.
 
Last Time Out
The Rams suffered their fourth defeat of the season on Sunday against Villanova despite Bre Cavanaugh's season-high 23 points. Fordham took a one-point lead midway through the fourth on a Kendell Heremaia three-pointer but it was brief as the Wildcats, who shot 62.5% overall from the field, retook the lead shortly thereafter. Cavanaugh, who was held to single digits in back-to-back games for just the second time of her career, hit 7-of-18 attempts from the field, with two threes, and 7-of-10 from the line for her 23 points, adding a team-high four assist and four steals over all 40 minutes. Anna DeWolfe scored a season-high 15 points on an efficient 7-of-12 shooting, while Heremaia finished with 13 points and a team-high seven rebounds. Fordham had a positive assist/turnover ratio, recording a season-high 14 dimes and a season-low 11 turnovers, while forcing Villanova into 16 mistakes. Both teams had 27 rebounds.
 
Series History vs. Northeastern
This will be the first time the Huskies visit the Rose Hill Gym and the fourth time the two schools have met overall since 1982. Northeastern has won all three previous contests, including last year's game, 58-54, in Boston. The Rams shot just 28.6% from the field, 14.8% from behind the arc, and were led by Cavanaugh and Mary Goulding, each with 15 points, the latter adding 12 rebounds, nine offensive.
 
1,000
Head coach Stephanie Gaitley, the program's winningest coach, has joined the 1,000-game club with the team's second of the year, at Columbia. She has amassed a 633-369 career record over 34 seasons at five schools.
 
Heremaia's Career Night
Despite the result, junior tri-captain Kendell Heremaia enjoyed a career night at Penn State, setting personal-bests in scoring (19 points), field goals made and attempts (7-of-17), and three-pointers made and attempts (5-of-11). She also chipped in six boards and three assists. Heremaia leads the team in scoring with 14.8 points per game and is shooting a team-best 45.8% overall and 41.4% from behind the arc.
 
Downey's Fast Start
The tri-captain has began her sophomore campaign impressively, averaging 12.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 1.8 steals, 1.5 assists, and 0.8 blocks over 28.5 minutes game, while shooting 44.2% from the field and 36.4% from deep. Downey was immense defensively against #16 Notre Dame, racking up a team-high 11 rebounds, five steals, and two blocks to go with seven points, the last two of which got the Rams within two, 57-55, with 11 seconds left in regulation. At Columbia, Downey poured in a career-high 19 points on 8-of-14 shooting.
 
Near Trip-Dub
Freshman Anna DeWolfe was incredibly impressive in her first collegiate game, showing no fear in the close loss to perennial powerhouse Notre Dame. The Cumberland, Maine native played 37 minutes, second-most on the team, with a facemask on after an injury suffered during practice a few weeks ago, and nearly recorded the team's third triple-double in its history and first since Erin Rooney's in January 2014. DeWolfe racked up 10 points, nine rebounds, and a team-high nine assists, plus a steal, but struggled with her shot a bit, hitting 5-of-16 from the floor, including 0-of-6 from behind the arc. She was named Miss Maine Basketball each of the past two years and is one of the most decorated high school players in the state's history.
 
Busy Bre
Bre Cavanaugh has started all 72 contests in her Fordham career and has been nothing short of spectacular for the Rams during her time in maroon and white. The redshirt junior became the third-fastest Ram to reach 1,000 career points, doing so in 60 contests, and has already amassed 1,213 career points, tied with Abigail Corning for 11th all-time. The Allamuchy, N.J. native has racked up 2,759 career minutes thus far out of a possible 2,910 (94.8%), finishing each of the last two seasons within the top-10 in that category nationally. She's already moved into the top-10 for three-pointers, now ninth with 146, eighth with 273 free throws, and is fourth all-time with a 16.8 point-per-game average. Cavanaugh has been held to single digit scoring just nine times in her career and has 27 games of 20 or more points.
 
Crashing the Offensive Glass
A staple recently of the Stephanie Gaitley Rams is the team's prowess on the offensive boards. Whether it was Abigail Corning, Sam Clark, and company five years ago during the team's first title run, the two years in which G'mrice Davis averaged a double-double, or last year's squad who grabbed nearly one-third of all their rebounds on the offensive glass (32.1%), with six different players finishing with at least 35 offensive rebounds on the year. Against Notre Dame, despite facing some taller players, the Rams grabbed 16 of their 41 rebounds on the offensive end, and hauled in more offensive (18) than defensive (12) at Penn State. Through four games, of Fordham's 125 rebounds, 46 have been offensive (36.8%). Sophomore Megan Jonassen, over 13.8 minutes per game, has 63-of-121 rebounds on the offensive glass (52.1%) for her career and has 10-of-14 this year. Sarah Karpell has seven offensive boards out of 10 and at least 50% of Bre Cavanaugh's and Kaitlyn Downey's boards are on the offensive glass.
 
This Is Our House
Since Gaitley took over before the 2011-12 season, the Rams hold a 99-31 (76.2%) record at home across 130 contests. Over the last three seasons, the Rams are 41-11 in the Bronx, including a 19-5 mark in conference play and two Holiday Classic crowns. Last year, Fordham finished 12-4 at home overall and 6-2 in league action. On the flip side, Gaitley's Rams are 70-67 (51.1%) on the road or on neutral ground during her tenure.
 
Defense, Defense, Defense
No stat better represents the Gaitley-infused defense than Fordham's 69-6 record when holding opponents under 50 points during her tenure. Two Januarys ago, Saint Joseph's defeated the Rams, 47-44, at Hagan Arena in Philadelphia, ending a streak of 38 consecutive contests with such victories. The last time before that loss, coincidentally, was also against the Hawks, in the 2013 A-10 Championship game at the Barclays Center, 47-46. The team's 47-44 loss to VCU on January 16th snapped a streak of 16 straight wins. A new streak began soon after with a 56-38 win at Rhode Island, which has reached eight games entering this season.
 
Rams in the Pros
G'mrice Davis, who graduated in 2017, currently plays professionally with Bnot Hertzeliya in Israel after spending time in Greece with GAS Kalyvion and Australia with the Rockland Cyclones, which featured her former teammate and 2019 graduate Mary Goulding. Mary finished her season strong and moved on to Sweden, where she now plays for IK Eos. Lauren Holden, who graduated in 2019, immediately moved into coaching, joining up with former associate head coach Angelika Szumilo at Fairleigh Dickinson as one of her assistants.
 
Up Next
The Rams play at Charlotte this Sunday, November 24, at 1 p.m.