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Nassau, Bahamas – The Fordham women's basketball team (2-4) will look to expand its current two-game win streak at this weekend's inaugural Bahamas Hoopfest in the capital of Nassau, where the Rams will take on #25/24 Arkansas (5-1) and Lehigh (5-0) on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Both contests will tip off from the Baha Mar Convention Center at 4 p.m.

There are no video streams of either game, but fans can follow along on WFUVSports.org and with live stats via the links on the schedule page, linked above.
 
Last Time Out
Fordham dominated Charlotte on the road on Sunday for a 25-point, 76-51, win in which it led wire to wire. The Rams were on fire from distance all afternoon long, hitting the second-most threes in program history and the most away from home, 15, on just 31 attempts (48.4), while converting on 52.0% of their shots from the floor overall. Leading the charge were career-best performances by freshman Anna DeWolfe (25 points) and sophomore Kaitlyn Downey (24 points). DeWolfe missed all five attempts from the field in the first quarter but exploded for 25 points on 10-of-17 shooting over the final half hour of action, while Downey barely missed, hitting 8-of-10 shots overall and 6-of-8 from behind the arc. Bre Cavanaugh was able to coast to 12 points, three boards, two assists, and two steals over 39 minutes, while Kendell Heremaia racked up a season-high 14 rebounds to go with eight points and six assists. Sarah Karpell was limited to just eight minutes due to foul trouble, allowing Katie McLoughlin to play a career-high 21 minutes, where she put up five points, hauled in three offensive rebounds, and notched an assist and steal.
 
Series History vs. Arkansas
This will be the first-ever meeting between the two schools.
 
Series History vs. Lehigh
This will be the first meeting between the two schools since 2009. The Rams hold a 12-2 all-time record over the Mountain Hawks since 1977. Fordham won 12 straight to begin the series but Lehigh has taken the last two contests, first in the Bronx, 46-33, in 2007, and then, 69-55, in Bethlehem, Pa., in January 2009.
 
DeWolfe Named Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week
The freshman from Cumberland, Maine was instrumental in the team's first two wins of the season, matching and then surpassing her season-highs in scoring and averaging 20.0 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 1.5 steals over 36.5 minutes, while shooting 48.4% from the floor and 41.2% from deep.
 
1,000
Head coach Stephanie Gaitley, the program's winningest coach, has joined the 1,000-game club with the team's second game of the year, at Columbia. She has amassed a 635-369 career record over 34 seasons at five schools. 
 
Bombs Away!
To nobody's surprise, the 2019-20 Rams are one of the voluminous three-point shooting teams in the land, in the top-20 in attempts, makes, and makes per game (as you'll see below and on pages 6-7). Sunday's game at Charlotte was a masterclass in long-range sniping as the team hit 48.4% of it's 31 attempts, with the 15 makes ranking second-most all-time at Fordham and most away from home. Kaitlyn Downey hit 6-of-8 in the contest, the most by a Ram since Hannah Missry hit eight against Delaware State in December 2015. For the year, Downey has 15, Heremaia has 14, DeWolfe has 10, and Cavanaugh has nine. The team is hitting 34.0% of their threes, led by 44.1% and 41.2% clips from Downey and Heremaia, respectively.
 
Striking the Right Balance
Already through six games, Fordham is seeing plenty of production spread around the members of its rotation. Cavanaugh is unsurprisingly leading the charge in scoring in three of the six games, but Heremaia (twice), DeWolfe (once), and Downey (once) have also stepped up. Four different Rams have led the team in rebounding, four different Rams have led the team in assists, six players have had at least one game with a share of or the team-high in steals, and four have led the way in blocks at least once, as well.
 
Busy Bre
Bre Cavanaugh has started all 74 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 entered the all-time top-10 in scoring, amassing 1,246 career points. The Allamuchy, N.J. native has racked up 2,838 career minutes thus far out of a possible 2,990 (94.9%), 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 150, joint-seventh with 282 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 28 games of 20 or more points.
 
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 attempted (7-of-17), and three-pointers made and attempted (5-of-11). She also chipped in six boards and three assists. Heremaia is fourth on the team in scoring with 12.0 points per game and is shooting 42.9% overall from the field and 41.2% from behind the arc with 14 made threes, second-most in the squad. She continues to stuff the stat sheet, with a team-high 7.7 rebounds per game and 17 assists.
 
Downey's Fast Start
The sophomore tri-captain has began her sophomore campaign impressively, averaging 12.8 points, 4.8 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.2 steals, and 0.8 blocks over 27.8 minutes game, while shooting 50.0% from the field and 44.1% 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. Downey set a new career-high with 19 points at Columbia then bested that with 24 points on 8-of-10 shooting, 6-of-8 from behind the arc, at Charlotte on Sunday. 
 
Anna The Wolfe
Freshman Anna DeWolfe has burst onto the scene in a big way, nearly triple-doubling against #16 Notre Dame in the season opener (10 points, 9 rebounds, 9 assists), and recording at least nine points in all six contests to begin her collegiate career, including a season-high 25 points on Sunday at Charlotte. The Cumberland, Maine native is second on the team with 13.8 points per game on 41.7% shooting overall, 30.3% from deep, and 3-of-3 from the line, with 4.8 rebounds, a team-high 21 assists (3.5 per game), and six steals over 35.8 minutes per contest. She was just named the Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week for leading the Rams to two wins last week.
 
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. Despite the loss of Mary Goulding, the Rams haven't skipped a beat, with 32.3% of their 192 rebounds coming on the offensive end (62). Sophomore Megan Jonassen this year (14-of-23) and for her career (67-of-129) has more offensive rebounds than defensive. Sarah Karpell has eight offensive boards out of 12 total, as well, and all six of Katie McLoughin's rebounds are offensive. Seven Rams have at least six offensive boards on the season thus far with Jonassen leading the way off the bench.
 
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 return to the area for the annual Battle of the Bronx against Manhattan. The Jaspers will host this year's iteration, next Thursday night, December 5, at 7 p.m.