Gallery: (2-23-2022) Men's Basketball vs. La Salle
Bronx, N.Y. – The powers that be at the Jesuit university in the Bronx may well be asking to change the spelling of the school name to ForDham after witnessing the last two men's basketball games. For the second straight game, the stingy Ram defense held their opponent to under 55 points as Fordham defeated La Salle, 60-54, in an Atlantic 10 game in the Rose Hill Gym.
With the win, Fordham evens its record at 13-13, 6-8 in the Atlantic 10, while La Salle falls to 7-18 overall, 2-13 in the conference.
The Rams were led by grad student forward
Chuba Ohams who recorded his fourth straight double-double, and his 16th of the season, with a career-high 20 points and 13 rebounds, while grad student guard
Josh Colon-Navarro added 15 points and sophomore guard
Kyle Rose finished with ten points and five rebounds.
The Rams dominated the first half, taking a 27-16 lead at the break but the Explorers chipped away at the Fordham lead in the second half, eventually getting it down to one, 36-35, with 10:58 left.
The Fordham lead was three, 45-42, with 4:45 remaining when an
Abdou Tsimbila put back started a 7-0 Fordham run as the Rams took a 52-42 lead on an Ohams three with 3:10 left. The closest La Salle would get from that point would be six, which happened four times, the final on an Explorer basket at the buzzer.
Takeaways
• In two games vs. La Salle this year,
Antrell Charlton has 19 assists (he had ten tonight).
• It was the first game with a Fordham player recording double figure assists since Joseph Chartouny dished out 13 against UMass in 2018.
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Kyle Rose has scored in double figures in seven of the past eleven games.
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Josh Colon-Navarro scored in double figures for the sixth time this year.
• The three-pointer was
Chuba Ohams' third of the season and ninth of his career.
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Abdou Tsimbila recorded a block in his fourth straight game.
• Fordham has taken the past three match-ups with La Salle.
• The Rams are .500 after 26 games for the first time since 2015-2016.
• Fordham pulled down eleven offensive rebounds that turned into 14 second chance points compared to six offensive boards and three second chance points for La Salle.
• The Rams swept the season series from two opponents this year (Duquesne and La Salle), the first time they accomplished that feat since 2015-2016 (La Salle and Massachusetts).
• Fordham head coach
Kyle Neptune and La Salle head coach Ashley Howard served as assistant coaches together at Villanova.
By the Numbers
10 – Assists for
Antrell Charlton, a career-high (previous high was nine at La Salle earlier this season).
16 – Doubles-doubles on the year for
Chuba Ohams, three shy of the school record of 19 set by Chris Gaston in 2009-2010 (game-by-game stats aren't available prior to 1970).
20 – Points for
Chuba Ohams, tying his career-high (it's the fourth time he's scored 20, most recently vs. LIU earlier this year).
107 – Career blocks for
Chuba Ohams, who had one tonight, ninth place all-time at Fordham.
671 – Career rebounds for
Chuba Ohams, 15th on the Fordham career rebounding list.
664 – All-time wins in the Rose Hill Gym for the Rams.
1,543 – All-time wins for Fordham.
What's Next?
• The Rams return to action and continue Atlantic 10 play on Saturday, February 26, as they travel to Davidson, N.C., to face the Davidson College Wildcats in Belk Arena at 2:30 p.m.
• It will be the 14th meeting between Fordham and Davidson on the hardwood.
• The Wildcats lead the all-time series, 11-2.
• Davidson has won nine straight, including a 69-66 win in the Rose Hill Gym on January 22 as Luka Brajkovic scored 21 points for the Wildcats while
Darius Quisenberry led all scorers with a season-high 36 points for the Rams.
