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Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham University Rams continue the 2021-2022 season, Fordham's 119th varsity season, by continuing play at the 2021 Gulf Coast Showcase by facing the University of Delaware Blue Hens in the Hertz Arena on Tuesday, November 23, at 7:30 p.m.
The game will be broadcast live on FLOHOOPS and on WFUV (90.7 FM) and streamed on
www.wfuvsports.org with Nick DeLuca (p-b-p) and Ryan Gregware (color) behind the mics.
Fordham enters the game with a 3-2 record after a 64-43 win over the University of Akron in the first round of the Gulf Coast Showcase on Monday night in Hertz Arena on Monday night while Delaware is 3-1 on the season after a 75-68 win over Appalachian State University in the first round on Monday night.
Tuesday night's contest will be the second meeting between Fordham and Delaware on the hardwood. The Rams took the first meeting, 50-19, back in 1925.
Notes
• After missing most of the 2020-2021 season, graduate student forward
Chuba Ohams has wasted little time displaying that he was back, recording a double-double in four of the first five games.
• Ohams started with 13 points and a career-high 15 rebounds in the season-opening win over Columbia and then bettered his career-high with 18 rebounds to go with 17 points at Manhattan. He followed that with 12 points and 12 boards vs. St. Thomas and ten points and 12 boards against UMES.
• Ohams leads the Atlantic 10 and is fifth in the NCAA in rebounding (12.6 rpg).
• Graduate student guard
Darius Quisenberry is third in the Atlantic 10 in scoring, averaging 18.2 ppg while junior guard
Antonio Daye, Jr. is sixth in the conference in scoring at 17.2 ppg.
• The Fordham defense held Akron, who entered the game averaging 89.0 ppg, to just 43 points in the win on Monday night.
• The Rams are looking to win their first in-season tournament since 1987.
• Fordham head coach
Kyle Neptune became the first Fordham head men's basketball coach to win in his debut since 1986.