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Bronx, N.Y. – Fordham women's basketball's 2022-23 kicks off Monday night against Yale in the first game of a doubleheader with the men's squad. The Rams and Bulldogs tip off at 5:30 p.m. on ESPN+ and WFUV.
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.
Preseason Tune-Up
Fordham defeated Kutztown, 79-48, on Thursday evening in an exhibition. The Rams were led by
Asiah Dingle's efficient 22 points in 22 minutes. Read all about it
here.
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.
Season Review
The Rams finished the year 18-11, 8-6 in conference action, and reached yet another WNIT. Fordham went 10-5 prior to league play with victories over top-100 NET teams Quinnipiac, Seton Hall, Michigan State, and Stony Brook. Fordham fell in the A10 quarterfinals to eventual champion UMass and then to Bucknell in the WNIT opening round.
Anna DeWolfe was named First Team All-Conference and CoSIDA Academic All-District,
Asiah Dingle placed on the All-Conference Third Team, and
Kaitlyn Downey received her second straight All-Academic award.
Series History with Yale
Fordham is 11-6 all-time with the Bulldogs since 1973. The two schools met 11 times prior to 1990 and in the six games since, the Rams are 5-1. Yale won at home in 2012 but Fordham avenged that loss with an 80-52 win in the Bronx the next year, their most recent meeting.
Are You Experienced?
Fordham's projected starting lineup is packed with experience, amassing a whopping 466 games between them. Unofficially, via asking national Division I SIDs, that is the most in the country. Behind them is Virginia Tech (431), Oklahoma (427), and UT Arlington (402, but 444 including JUCO).
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 make up 66.1% of the team's scoring on a combined 40.2% shooting overall. They are the real deal. For context for the uninitiated, this entire blurb is related to Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
Hungry Like DeWolfe
The 2020-21 Atlantic 10 Co-Player of the Year and two-time WBCA All-America honorable mention became the 25th Ram to reach 1,000 career points last December 12 against Lafayette, doing so on a patented mid-range jumper, hitting nothing but net. DeWolfe was second in the Atlantic 10 in scoring (17.8 points per game) on 38.6% overall shooting, 30.4% from distance, and 84.9% from the line. She was second on the team with 76 assists and 46 steals. DeWolfe finished fifth in the nation with 38.3 minutes per game and is 64th in points per game. She had 14 games this year of 20 or more points, including a stretch of eight in a row earlier in the year. She saw a 48-game stretch ended against Davidson with at least one three-pointer made per game.
For her career, across 79 consecutive starts, DeWolfe is up to 10th all-time with 1,295 points and recently entered the top-10 for career field goals, 10th with 508, and three-pointers, 10th with 159. 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.
News and Notes
- Including the 2019-20 season that was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic in which the Rams would have earned a WNIT bid, last year was the sixth consecutive season in which Fordham played in the postseason, five of which came in the WNIT. Extending back the past 10 seasons, that number is nine.
- Fordham finished last year 72nd in NET ranking with opponents having an average 73 NET rank.
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Kaitlyn Downey is one of a handful of active players who have appeared in over 100 consecutive contests and has never missed a game, appearing 113 consecutive games over four years, which ranks just outside the all-time top-10. Her 107 starts are tied for seventh.
- The Rams return 81% of their scoring from a year ago while adding the reigning Northeast Conference Defensive Player of the Year
Jada Dapaa.
Up Next
Fordham welcomes Saint Peter's to the Rose Hill Gym on Thursday night at 7 p.m. ESPN+ and WFUV will carry live coverage and there will be a delayed broadcast on SNY, as well.
