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Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham University Rams continue the 2021-2022 Atlantic 10 season, Fordham's 119th varsity season, by traveling to Philadelphia to face the Saint Joseph's University Hawks in Hagan Arena on Saturday, February 5, at 1:00 p.m.
The game will be streamed on ESPN+ with Matt Martucci (PxP) announcing as well as broadcast on WFUV (90.7 FM) and
www.wfuvsports.org with Nick DeLuca (PxP) and Mike Calamari (analyst) behind the mics.
Fordham enters the game with a 10-10 overall record, 3-5 in the Atlantic 10, after a 61-55 conference win over Rhode Island in the Rose Hill Gym on Wednesday night, while Saint Joseph's enters the game with a 9-11 overall record, 3-6 in the conference, after an 80-69 Atlantic 10 loss at St. Bonaventure last Saturday.
Saturday afternoon's contest will be the 58th meeting between Fordham and Saint Joseph's on the hardwood. The Hawks lead the all-time series, which started in the 1919-20 season, 39-18, and have won seven of the past eight over the Rams. Saint Joseph's took the most recent matchup, 73-69, on February 29, 2020, in Philadelphia as Ryan Daly scored 21 points for the Hawks while
Josh Colon-Navarro netted 17 for the Rams.
Notes
• After missing most of the 2020-2021 season, graduate student forward
Chuba Ohams has wasted little time displaying that he was back, recording a double-double in 12 of the his 17 games.
• Ohams recorded Fordham first 20/20 game since 2000 when he scored 20 points and added 22 rebounds, both career-highs, in a win over St. Francis.
• Ohams leads the Atlantic 10 and is fifth in the NCAA in rebounding (11.4 rpg).
• Ohams has 603 career rebounds, 20th all-time at Fordham.
• Ohams need one block to bring his career total to 100.
• Graduate student guard
Darius Quisenberry is second in the Atlantic 10 in scoring, averaging 17.6 ppg.
• Quisenberry has scored in double figures in 19 of the 20 games this year.
• It is the first of three straight road games for the Rams.