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Bronx, N.Y. – Fordham (1-0) will look to begin its first winning streak of the new campaign when it hosts Saint Peter's (0-1) on Thursday night at 7 p.m. The game will be shown on ESPN+ and WFUV with a tape delay on SNY at 11 a.m. on Friday.
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 five made threes and a whopping 12 steals already!
Last Time Out
Phew! The Rams showed off a faster pace in Monday's 80-67 season-opening win over Yale, a team that had received votes in the preseason WBCA Coaches' Poll, and didn't sacrifice efficiency, coverting on 45.5% of their shots, including 52.3% from within the arc. Fordham led nearly wire-to-wire, amassing 17 assists to 11 turnovers and 12 steals.
Anna DeWolfe led all scorers with 22 points, adding four threes, five boards, three assists, and a steal across all 40 minutes, while
Asiah Dingle nearly double-doubled with 17 points, on 6-of-12 shooting, nine boards, four assists, and five steals.
Kaitlyn Downey did double-double, posting 14 points and 10 rebounds, while
Sarah Karpell exploded for a career-high 15 points on 6-of-10 shooting, nearly doubling her previous best.
Megan Jonassen hit her first career triple and grabbed four offensive rebounds of five total, and
Matilda Flood played a career-high 26 minutes and tallied five points, seven boards (three offensive), two assists, two blocks, and two steals. Read all about it
here!
Check out the
highlights and
photo gallery!
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.
2021-22 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 Saint Peter's
The Peacocks lead the long-time rivalry, 29-11, since 1970, the program's first year of existence. When Fordham was in the MAAC from 1982-90, Saint Peter's won all 16 regular season contests but there were two Ram victories during that time - in the 1987 conference tournament and a rare nonconference meeting in November 1989. Fordham has won the two most recent meetings, though, in 2009 and 2010, the latter coming in the Bronx, a 77-55 victory.
Are You Experienced?
Fordham's projected starting lineup, with
Jada Dapaa, is packed with experience, beginning the season with 466 combined games played. Unofficially, via asking national Division I SIDs, that was the most in the country. Behind them was Virginia Tech (431), Oklahoma (427), and UT Arlington (402, but 444 including JUCO). Now, that lineup has 470 career games played, though if exchange
Megan Jonassen for Dapaa, like on Monday, that number grows to a mammoth 503.
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 one game so far, those numbers were nearly identical - 66.3% of the scoring on 43.2% shooting. 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, 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 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.
For her career, across 80 consecutive starts, DeWolfe is up to 10th all-time with 1,317 points, one behind Becky Peters ('12) and recently entered the top-10 for career field goals, now 10th with 516, and three-pointers, ninth with 163. 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.
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.
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 114 consecutive games over four years, which ranks just outside the all-time top-10. Her 108 starts are seventh-most all-time.
- 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 travels down I-95 twice to face two nationally-ranked programs, first up at #17/18 Maryland on Sunday at 1 p.m.
