Men’s Basketball Takes Down St. Thomas

Bronx, N.Y. – It has been a busy opening week for the Fordham men's basketball squad. But the Rams were none the worse for the wear tonight as all the wrapped up a three-games-in-six-days stretch tonight with a spirited 84-78 win over the University of St. Thomas in the Rose Hill Gym.
 
With the win, Fordham improves to 2-1 on the year while St. Thomas falls to 1-2.
 
Sophomore guard Kyle Rose led all Rams with a career-high 22 points, shooting 6-for-10 from behind the arc, while graduate forward Chuba Ohams and graduate guard Darius Quisenberry each recorded a double-double with Ohams scoring 12 points and grabbing 12 rebounds and Quisenberry netting 12 points and pulling down ten rebounds.
 
Junior guard Antonio Daye, Jr. and sophomore guard Antrell Charlton also scored in double figures with 12 and 11, respectively.
 
The Rams led by one at the break, 39-38, but the Tommies managed to tie the game twice over the first four minutes of the second half, the final at 46-46. A Rose three ignited a 9-0 Fordham run as the Rams took a 55-46 lead on a Rose lay in with 12:43 left.
 
Fordham got the lead to as many as 17, 75-58, following a Daye driving layup with just over four minutes remaining and a late rally by the Tommies came up short.
 
Takeaways
• Chuba Ohams was three assists shy of a triple-double, which would have been the first in school history.
 
• The Rams outrebounded the Tommies, 42-36.
 
• Fordham led for 33:05 to just 4:03 for St. Thomas.
 
• The game was Fordham's first against a team from the state of Minnesota and the first meeting with a school from the Summit League.
 
• St. Thomas made the jump from Div. III to Div. I this year.
 
• The NCAA allowed the Tommies to bypass the 12-year process to move from Div. III to Div. I.
 
• UST is the first school to make the two-level jump since the current rules were put in place in 2010.
 
By the Numbers
7 – Assists for Chuba Ohams, a career-high (previous high was three which he accomplished six times).
 
22 – Career-high points for Kyle Rose (previous high was 15 vs. La Salle last year)
 
23 – Assists by the Rams, on 29 made baskets.
 
52.7% - Fordham's field goal shooting percentage (29-55)
 
What's Next?
 • The Rams continue their 2021-2022 season on Friday, November 15, as they host the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore in the historic Rose Hill Gym at 7:00 p.m.
 
• It will be the third meeting between Fordham and Maryland-Eastern Shore on the hardwood.
 
• The two teams split the first two meetings.
 
• The Rams won the last meeting, 66-45, in 2019 behind 18 points and eleven rebounds from Chuba Ohams.
 
• Fordham is 11-3 all-time against teams currently in the MEAC.