Women's Basketball Hosts Wagner Sunday Afternoon

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Bronx, N.Y. – Fordham (2-2) will look to rebound from two tight losses over the past week when it hosts Wagner (2-2) on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ and locally on SNY.
 
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 29 made threes and a whopping 46 steals already! Thank you for all your continued support!
 
Last Time Out
It came down to the wire but Fordham fell, 70-67, at RV/RV Princeton on Wednesday night. There were 15 lead changes and five times throughout the back-and-forth affair, with the Rams leading late, 56-55, following back-to-back threes from Kaitlyn Downey and Megan Jonassen and later an Asiah Dingle three-point play, but Princeton's Grace Stone and Kaitlyn Chen made several clutch baskets down the stretch and held on for the win.
 
Downey scored her 1,000^th career point, becoming the 25^th Ram to do so in program history, and Dingle crossed the 1,500-point threshold, as well. Downey shared the game-high of 19 points with Stone and Chen, shooting 8-of-12 from the floor, 3-of-4 from distance, with 11 rebounds. Dingle posted 13 points and five assists, while Jonassen showed off her range by making 3-of-3 three-point attempts and finishing with 15 points, just one shy of her career-high.
 
Asiah Dingle Named A-10 Player of the Week
Facing stiff competition, including Anna DeWolfe's big week and from reigning A-10 Player of the Year Sam Breen, among others, it should still be no surprise that the fifth-year guard earned the league's first weekly honor after leading the Rams to a 2-1 week. The Boston native averaged 17.3 points on 46.2% shooting, while hitting 3-of-10 from distance and 13-of-17 from the line, with 6.7 rebounds, a whopping 5.0 steals, 3.3 assists, and 0.7 blocks all over just 27.7 minutes per game. Last Thursday, Dingle racked up a program-record 10 steals against Saint Peter's, part of the team's record 21 thefts.
 
Series History with Wagner
Fordham holds an 11-6 all-time lead over the Seahawks dating back to 1971. The two schools met at least once a year over that decade and several times in the '80s, with the Rams racking up 10 straight victories between 1976 and 1989. Wagner won twice, home and away, in 1998-99, but Fordham won the next meeting, their most recent, 80-59, in the 2018 season opener. Downey started that game and scored 12 points over 19 minutes, Jonassen played 11 minutes off the bench for two points and two offensive rebounds, and assistant coach Lauren Holden posted nine points, three assists, and three steals across 35 minutes.
 
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 four games so far, those numbers are similar – 62.5% of the scoring on 44.9% 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 last 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 year were Virginia Tech (431), Oklahoma (427), and UT Arlington (402, but 444 including JUCO). Fordham is now up to 519 games played for its starting five with grad transfer Jada Dapaa adding 91 off the bench.
 
Three 1,000-Point Scorers
With her tough turnaround second-quarter jumper on Wednesday, Kaitlyn Downey became the 25^th Ram to score 1,000 points in program history. She joins Asiah Dingle (1,512 across three schools and five seasons) and Anna DeWolfe (1,360 - seventh-most in school history). Nationally, the Rams are one of 11 schools with three active student-athletes with 1,000 career points, although they are the only mid-major school. Virginia Tech has four.
 
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.
 
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 heads to the road for the Las Vegas Holiday Classic over Thanksgiving weekend. The Rams will play Washington on Friday at 4:30 p.m. and South Dakota on Saturday at 2 p.m. Both times are Eastern.