Women's Basketball Finishes Nonconference Action with Post on Wednesday Afternoon

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Bronx, N.Y. – Fordham (7-5) wraps up nonconference play with a match-up against former Ram Lauren Murphy and her Post Eagles (7-6, 2-1 CACC) on Wednesday afternoon at 2 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. So far, the Rams have 106 made threes and a whopping 109 steals! Thank you for all your continued support!
 
Last Time Out
The Rams saw their three-game win streak snapped with a six-point loss to Seton Hall last Saturday. A very hotly-contested, back-and-forth affair, comprised of 13 lead changes, seven ties, and a combined 57 field goals and 34 turnovers, it was the Pirates' Lauren Park-Lane and her 35 points on 26 attempts that paved the way for their road victory.
 
Asiah Dingle matched her career-high of 11 field goals for 26 points while leading the squad with four assists. Megan Jonassen fell one rebound shy of a double-double, posting 14 points and seven offensive rebounds, plus two steals, Anna DeWolfe scored 13, and Jada Dapaa netted 11 points and seven rebounds off the bench, her third straight double-digit scoring game. Also off the pine was Matilda Flood, who notched four rebounds, two dimes, and two blocks over 19 minutes.
 
Seton Hall outshot the Rams, 45.2% to 39.7%, with both teams struggling from distance, while the Pirates amassed 18-of-27 free throws at the line. Both teams grabbed an equal 40 rebounds, 11 offensive.
 
Dingle Named A-10 Player of the Week a Second Time
Asiah Dingle earned her second honor of the year last week, which you can read more about here.
 
Series History
This will be the first-ever meeting between the two schools.
 
Nationally Speaking (as of 12/27)
Fordham have played at a much faster tempo this season, averaging 73.8 points per contest, which ranks 70th in the nation. The offense's 1.16 assist/turnover ratio, third in the Atlantic 10, sits 38th nationally. Fordham also makes the 17th-most threes per game (8.8) with the 59th-best success rate (34.9%). The Rams are dishing out the 53rd-most assists per game (16.2) while committing just 13.9 turnovers per game, ranked 50th, and have the 114th-best steals per game rate (9.1) in the country. The offense is also hitting free throws at the fifth-best rate (80.0%) despite taking the 340th-fewest attempts (11.7).
 
Individually, Asiah Dingle is 18th in steals per game, 30th in field goals, 27th in points per game, 103rd in free throws made, and 152nd in assists per game. Kaitlyn Downey is fifth in defensive rebounds per game, 47th in total boards per game, and 13th in double-doubles. Anna DeWolfe is 82nd in points per game, 23rd in total threes, 54th in field goals, and 29th in threes per game.
 
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 three games so far, those numbers are similar – 66.1% of the scoring on 42.5% shooting. For context for the uninitiated, this entire blurb is related to Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
 
Three 1,000-Point Scorers
With her tough turnaround second-quarter jumper at Princeton, Kaitlyn Downey became the 25th Ram to score 1,000 points in program history. Now 22nd with 1,105 points, she joins Asiah Dingle (1,680 across three schools and five seasons) and Anna DeWolfe (1,497 – joint-fifth-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.
 
Asiah and Co. Steal the Show
You thought Asiah Dingle's five steals in the season opener was a handful? She doubled that with a program-record 10 against Saint Peter's, notching her ninth and 10th on consecutive possessions in the third quarter. Her previous best was six, which she'd accomplished several times over her career, including once with Fordham. The previous school record was eight, done five times by four student-athletes, but not since Lauren Fleischer in 2001. Her teammates added 11 thefts against the Peacocks to set a new single-game team record, as well, by three, with 21.
 
Are You Experienced?
Fordham's current starting lineup entered this season with a mammoth 488 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 548 games played for its starting five with grad transfer Jada Dapaa adding 99 off the bench.
 
Back-to-Back Players of the Week
Asiah Dingle earned the league's first weekly accolade of the year after helping Fordham begin the year 2-1 while averaging 17.3 points on 46.2% shooting, 6.7 rebounds, a whopping 5.0 steals, including a record 10 thefts against Saint Peter's, 3.3 assists, and 0.7 blocks all over just 27.7 minutes per game. Then it was Kaitlyn Downey's turn the following week, her third time winning the award, after averaging an 18-point, 10-rebound double-double last week with 3.5 assists, 1.0 blocks, and 1.0 steals. She also became the 25th Ram to reach 1,000 career points, at Princeton.
 
Raining Threes
From three-point land the Rams have been scorching all season long, shooting 34.9% as a group, which ranks 59th nationally and third in the league. Colleen McQuillen (47.4%) and Megan Jonassen (43.8%) have been terrific albeit on limited attempts, but the Triple D trio of DeWolfe (37.8%), Dingle (39.7%), and Downey (37.5%) have been knocking down shots all year long from distance, combining for 84 triples thus far. If you took out all other players, combined for 6-of-49 shooting, that quintet is shooting 39.6% (101-of-255).
 
The Triple D trio have been somewhat inconsistent, however. DeWolfe has five games with four or more threes and Downey with five of three or more, including a career-best 7-of-12 performance against Fairfield, but each have three games shooting 20.0% or worse. Dingle, a career 27.0% shooter from deep, started the year 3-of-16 over her first four games. Not including an 0-for-3 line against FDU, she's shooting 51.3% since November 20th (20-of-39).
 
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
The Rams begin the new year and Atlantic 10 play on the same day – this Sunday at 2 p.m. against Davidson on CBS Sports Network.