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Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham University Rams open play at the 2021 Atlantic 10 Championship by facing the George Washington University Colonials in VCU's Siegel Center in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, March 3, at 2:00 p.m.
 
The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+, with Matt Martucci (p-b-p) and Dr. John Gianinni (color) announcing, and streamed on www.wfuvsports.org with Emmanuel Berbari (p-b-p) and Andrew Posadas (color) behind the mics.
 
Fordham, the 14-seed, enters the game with a 2-11 record, 2-11 in the Atlantic 10, and is coming off a 68-40 Atlantic 10 loss to Saint Louis in the Rose Hill Gym on February 13, while George Washington, the 11-seed, enters the game with a 4-11 overall record, 3-5 in the A-10, and is coming off an 88-41 league loss at St. Bonaventure on Friday night.
 
Wednesday afternoon's contest will be the 40th meeting between Fordham and George Washington on the hardwood. The Colonials lead the all-time series, which started in the 1914-15 season, 29-10, and took this year's first meeting, 71-47, in the Rose Hill Gym on December 30 as Jamison Battle netted 24 points and James Bishop added 23. The GW win snapped a four-game Fordham winning streak in the series, including three wins last season.
 
Notes
• It will be the third time over the past four seasons that Fordham and George Washington will meet in the first round of the Atlantic 10 Championship.
 
• Fordham won last year's meeting at A-10s, 72-52, at the Barclays Center on March 11, behind 14 points and 12 rebounds from Joel Soriano and 15 points from Jalen Cobb, which was the final A-10 game played in 2019-2020.
 
• George Washington prevailed in the first round of the 2018 A-10 Championship, 78-72, at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C.
 
• Sophomore forward Joel Soriano has recorded a double-double in the past three of the past five games and in seven of the 13 games of 2020-2021.
 
• Soriano now has a double-double in 12 of his last 18 games dating back to last year.
 
• Soriano is leading the team in rebounding (9.2 rpg), fourth best in the Atlantic 10.
 
• Soriano leads the A-10 in offensive rebounding (3.6/game) and ranks sixth in field goal percentage (.528).
 
• Sophomore Chris Austin is averaging 12.6 ppg over the past eleven games, scoring in double figures in eight of the last eleven contests.
 
• Austin leads the team in scoring at 11.4 ppg.
 
• Over the past eleven contests, Fordham opponents are averaging 65.4 ppg and shooting .421 (254-604) from the field and .317 (91-287) from behind the arc.