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Washington, D.C. - The Fordham University Rams open the 2022 Atlantic 10 Championship, Fordham's 119th varsity season, by facing the George Mason University Patriots in the Capital One Arena on Thursday, March 10, at 12:00 p.m.
 
The game will be broadcast on the USA Network and streamed on the NBC Sports app  on ESPN+ with Paul Burmeister (PxP) and Tim McCormick (analyst) announcing and broadcast live wfuvsports.org with Nick DeLuca (PxP) and Ryan Gregware (analyst) behind the mics.
 
Fordham enters the game with a 15-15 overall record, 8-10 in the Atlantic 10, after a 70-66 conference win over George Washington in the Rose Hill Gym on Saturday afternoon, while George Mason enters the game with a 14-15 overall record, 7-9 in the conference, after an 83-80 overtime Atlantic 10 loss to Massachusetts in Fairfax, Va., on Saturday.
 
Thursday afternoon's contest will be the 14th meeting between Fordham and George Mason on the hardwood. The Rams lead the all-time series, 8-5, taking the first six meetings. Fordham won this year's lone meeting, 50-47, on February 20, in the Rose Hill Gym behind 17 points and 12 rebounds from Chuba Ohams.
 
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 his last eight games and 20 of his 28 contests, including a career-high 23-point, 16-rebound effort vs. George Washington on Saturday.
 
• Ohams leads the Atlantic 10 and is fifth in the NCAA in rebounding (11.5 rpg).
 
• Ohams has 720 career rebounds, good for 12th on the Rams' career lists., 23 behind Bill Carlson (1949-1952) for 11th place.
 
• Ohams also has 112 career blocks, good for seventh on the school's all-time list, ten behind Kervin Bristol (2010-2012) for sixth place.
 
• Graduate student guard Darius Quisenberry, who missed the five games with an injury, returned for the UMass game on Monday. He is third in the A-10 in scoring, averaging 16.8 ppg.
 
• Quisenberry has scored in double figures in 21 of his 25 games this year.
 
• Grad student guard Josh Colon-Navarro is averaging 11.3 ppg over the past eleven games.
 
• It will be the fourth meeting between George Mason and Fordham at the Atlantic 10 Championship with the Rams taking two of the previous three meetings.