Women's Basketball at Nationally-Ranked Maryland Sunday for First Road Game

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Bronx, N.Y. – Fordham (2-0) heads to the road for the first time this year on Sunday at #17/18 Maryland (1-1). Tip-off is set for 1 p.m. on BIG+ and WFUVSports.org.
 
Ramses Challenge
Join the Ramses Challenge, a new philanthropic initiative supporting our student-athletes! Pledge a set amount of money for each three-pointer or steal this year, or make a one-time gift to the program. All proceeds are tax-deductible and go directly to Fordham women's basketball. Read more here. So far, the Rams have 10 made threes and a whopping 33 steals already! Thank you for your support!
 
Last Time Out
Phew, part two! The Rams kept their foot on the gas and then some, overcoming some early struggles to explode for an 81-39 victory over Saint Peter's on Thursday, one of a handful of 40-point or better wins in program history. Graduate guard Asiah Dingle starred with a program-record 10 steals while the team added 11 more for a program-record 21 that led to a whopping 34 points. The Rams trailed in the opening minute but never again, finishing the first half on a 17-3 run by hitting eight of their last nine attempts and outscoring the Peacocks over the middle periods 47-16. Dingle finished with a game-high 19 points, flirting with a triple-double by adding eight rebounds, while also notching three assists and a block over just 25 minutes. Anna DeWolfe added 13 and Kaitlyn Downey chipped in 10 points as no Ram played over 26 minutes in the game.
 
Off the bench, Jada Dapaa made her Ram debut with eight points and a game-high nine rebounds, four offensive, over just 19 minutes. Matilda Flood handed out a career-high four assists while providing six points, five rebounds, two steals, and a block across 21 minutes, while Colleen McQuillen busted loose for a personal-best nine points on 4-of-5 shooting, including two tough baskets near the hoop. Fordham debuts were also had for Ashley O'Connor (two points, two boards, one block, one steal, six minutes), Faith Pappas (green light from deep but missed her four attempts across eight minutes), and Kate Deutsch (two points and a board over two minutes), as well.
 
DeWolfe, Dingle Named to Preseason All-Conference Teams
Anna DeWolfe and Asiah Dingle were named to Preseason All-Conference teams - DeWolfe on the First Team, Dingle the Second. Last year, DeWolfe earned her second straight First Team nod while Dingle was named Third Team All-Conference. Fordham was predicted to finish fourth by the league's coaches with Massachusetts receiving all 15 first-place votes.
 
Series History with Maryland
This will be the first-ever meeting between the two schools!
 
Triple D - DeWolfe, Dingle, Downey
Shut the front door! The Fordham trio have been gnarly, righteous, dynamite, and, perhaps most importantly, the bomb-dot-com. All three earned Atlantic 10 All-Conference honors and had at least one A-10 Player of the Week award last season. Combined, they made up 66.1% of the team's scoring on a combined 40.2% shooting overall. They are the real deal. Through two games so far, those numbers are similar - 59.0% of the scoring on 47.3% shooting. For context for the uninitiated, this entire blurb is related to Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
 
Asiah Steals the Show
You thought her five steals in the season opener was a handful? She doubled that with a program-record 10 on Thursday against Saint Peter's, notching her ninth and 10th on consecutive possessions. Her previous best was six, which she'd accomplished several times over her career, including once with Fordham. The previous record was eight, done five times by four student-athletes, but not since Lauren Fleischer in 2001.
 
Are You Experienced?
Fordham's current starting lineup entered this season with a mammoth 499 career games played,  unofficially the most in the country via asking national Division I SIDs. Behind them at the beginning of the yaer were Virginia Tech (431), Oklahoma (427), and UT Arlington (402, but 444 including JUCO). Fordham is now up to 509 games played for its starting five with grad transfer Jada Dapaa adding 89.
 
Hungry Like DeWolfe
The 2020-21 Atlantic 10 Co-Player of the Year and two-time WBCA All-America honorable mention, senior Anna DeWolfe began her fourth season in the Bronx in style with 22 points, hitting 4-of-8 threes, and adding five boards, three dimes, and a steal across all 40 minutes. It was the 27th 20-point game of her career and 29th game playing 40 minutes or more. Named to the Preseason All-Conference First Team, she became the 24th Ram to reach 1,000 career points last December 12 against Lafayette, doing so on a patented mid-range jumper, hitting nothing but net.
 
For her career, across 81 consecutive starts, DeWolfe is up to ninth all-time with 1,330 points, one behind Denise Hammersley ('95) and recently entered the top-10 for career field goals, now ninth with 521, and three-pointers, ninth with 166. She is also fifth with a career 16.4 per-game scoring average.
 
Captains +1
Fifth-years Kaitlyn Downey and Megan Jonassen, plus senior Anna DeWolfe, served as team captains last year. They will do so again this year plus new addition Jada Dapaa, who was voted as the fourth captain by her teammates. It's Downey's fourth year as a captain, most in program history after J.J. Radice's three years, DeWolfe's third, and Jonassen's second.
 
Up Next
Fordham travels a little closer to home down I-95 against nationally-ranked Princeton, #24/25 as of Saturday, on Wednesday night at 7 p.m.