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Bronx, N.Y. –  The Fordham University Rams continue the 2021-2022 season, Fordham's 119th varsity season, by facing the Rice University Owls in the third place game at the 2021 Gulf Coast Showcase in the Hertz Arena on Wednesday, November 24, at 5:00 p.m.
 
The game will be broadcast live on FLOHOOPS 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 3-3 record after an 81-71 loss to the University of Delaware in the winner's bracket game of the Gulf Coast Showcase on Tuesday night in Hertz Arena while Rice is 4-2 on the season after a 76-73 loss to Oakland University in the first winner's bracket game on Tuesday night.
 
Wednesday night's contest will be the fourth meeting between Fordham and Rice on the hardwood. The Owls lead the all-time series, 2-1. The Rams took the most recent meeting, 69-67, in the Rose Hill Gym on February 24, 1993.
 
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 six 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 sixth in the NCAA in rebounding (11.8 rpg).
 
• Graduate student guard Darius Quisenberry and junior guard Antonio Daye, Jr. are tied for sixth in the Atlantic 10 in scoring at 16.8 ppg.
 
• The Rams are looking to win two games at in-season tournament for the first time since 1987.
 
• Fordham head coach Kyle Neptune became the first Fordham head men's basketball coach to win in his debut since 1986.