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Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham University Rams continue the 2022-2023 season, Fordham's 120th varsity season, and continue Atlantic 10 play by hosting the George Washington University Colonials in the historic Rose Hill Gym on Saturday, January 28, at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets for the general public are sold out. A limited number of tickets are available for Fordham students on game day.
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The game will be streamed on ESPN+ with Mike Watts (PxP), Andrew Bogusch (analyst), and Maria Trivelpiece (sideline) announcing as well as broadcast on WFUV (90.7 FM) and
www.wfuvsports.org with Sam Davis (PxP) and Thomas Aiello (analyst) behind the mics.
Fordham enters the game with a 16-4 overall record, 4-3 in the Atlantic 10, and is coming off a 79-68 A-10 win at St. Bonaventure on Wednesday night while George Washington is 11-9 overall on the year, 5-2 in the Atlantic 10, following a 92-91 overtime A-10 win over Saint Joseph's in Washington, D.C.
Saturday afternoon's contest will be the 43rd meeting between Fordham and George Washington on the hardwood with the Colonials leading the all-time series, which started in the 1914-15 season, 31-11. The two teams split a pair of games last year with the Colonials taking the first meeting, 64-55, in Washington, D.C., on January 30 as James Bishop scored a game-high 25 points for the Colonials, while the Rams took the second, 70-66, on March 5, in the Rose Hill Gym behind 23 points and 16 rebounds from
Chuba Ohams.
Notes
• Fordham freshman guard
Will Richardson has turned it on over the past four games, averaging 13.5 ppg while shooting .556 from the field (20-36), .632 (12-19) from behind the arc.
• Richardson got his first career start at La Salle and responded with a game-high 19 points, shooting 7-for-12 from the field and 3-for-6 from behind the arc.
• Junior
Abdou Tsimbila is averaging a team-high 6.9 rpg and has 41 blocks.
• Tsimbila leads the Atlantic 10 in blocks (2.1/game) and is eighth in the Atlantic 10 in rebounding.
• Grad student guard
Darius Quisenberry is leading the Rams in scoring at 16.5 ppg, sixth in the Atlantic 10, while grad student
Khalid Moore is averaging 14.3 ppg, 16th in the A-10.
• Moore, who has four doubles-doubles this season, has set career-highs this year in scoring (25 vs. CCSU), rebounding (15, vs. Saint Joseph's), assists (4), and steals (4).
• The 4-3 start to the A-10 season is also the first time the Rams are .500 or better since the 2007 season when they started out conference play 5-2.
• Over the past three games, the Fordham Rams have risen 36 points in both the NCAA NET and Ken Pom rankings.
• Defensively, Fordham has held opponents to shooting .380 (60-158) from the field and .319 (15-47) from behind the arc.
