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Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham University Rams close out the 2021-2022 Atlantic 10 regular season, Fordham's 119th varsity season, by hosting the George Washington University Colonials in the historic Rose Hill Gym on Saturday, March 5, at 2:00 p.m.
Fans are back! The University announced today that fans are allowed to attend the game on Saturday. All fans must be fully vaccinated and boosted. Mask wearing is optional.
The game will be broadcast on SNY and streamed on ESPN+ with Michael Watts (PxP) and Andrew Bogusch (analyst) announcing as well as broadcast on WFUV (90.7 FM) and
www.wfuvsports.org with Nick DeLuca (PxP) and Ryan Gregware (analyst) behind the mics.
Fordham enters the game with a 14-15 overall record, 7-10 in the Atlantic 10, after an 81-73 conference loss at Massachusetts on Wednesday night, while George Washington the game with a 12-16 overall record, 8-8 in the conference, after a 98-93 triple overtime Atlantic 10 win over Duquesne in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
Saturday afternoon's contest will be the 41st meeting between Fordham and George Washington on the hardwood. The Colonials lead the all-time series, which started in the 1914-15 season, 30-10. The Colonials took this year's first meeting, 64-55, in Washington, D.C., on January 30 as James Bishop scored a game-high 25 points for the Colonials.
Notes
• Fordham graduate student
Chuba Ohams and
Josh Colon-Navarro, along with managers
Will DeVizio and
Nick Tasolides, who will all be making his final appearance in the Rose Hill Gym, will be honored in a pregame ceremony.
• 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 19 of his 27 games, including a 14-point, 12-rebound effort at UMass.
• The 19 double-doubles matches Chris Gaston's school record set in 2009-10 (in the shot clock era).
• Ohams leads the Atlantic 10 and is fifth in the NCAA in rebounding (11.3 rpg).
• Ohams has 704 career rebounds, good for 12th on the Rams' career lists, 39 behind Bill Carlson (1949-1952) for 11th place.
• Ohams also has 109 career blocks, good for eighth on the school's all-time list, three behind Sanford Jenkins (1988-1992) for seventh place.
• Graduate student guard
Darius Quisenberry, who returned last week after missing five games with an injury, is third in the A-10 in scoring, averaging 16.8 ppg.
• Quisenberry has scored in double figures in 21 of his 24 games this year.
• Over the past ten games, grad student guard
Josh Colon-Navarro is averaging 11.1 ppg.