Women's Basketball Hosts VCU at Noon for Wednesday's Kids Day

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Bronx, N.Y. – Fordham (9-5, 1-0) continues Atlantic 10 action with VCU (3-10, 0-1) on Wednesday at noon on SNY, ESPN+, and WFUV, in the team's annual Kids Day event.
 
Ramses Challenge
Join the Ramses Challenge, a new philanthropic initiative supporting our student-athletes! Pledge a set amount of money for each three-pointer or steal this year, or make a one-time gift to the program. All proceeds are tax-deductible and go directly to Fordham women's basketball. Read more here. So far, the Rams have 116 made threes and a whopping 126 steals! Thank you for all your continued support!
 
Last Time Out
The Rams kicked off the New Year and conference play with a hard-earned 67-64 win over Davidson on Sunday. For the first time in nearly eight years, Fordham failed to convert a three-point attempt, while also taking their fewest total attempts in nearly five years, both instances coming at home against La Salle, coincidentally. The team's plan was to score inside and score they did, shooting 56% inside the arc for 56 total points, led by Anna DeWolfe's 25 points and Jada Dapaa's first Fordham double-double of 10 points and 12 rebounds off the bench. The Wildcats led for the majority of the contest but Fordham never relented and DeWolfe took over in the fourth quarter, scoring 14 points, as the Rams answered each of Davidson's makes before going ahead with under two minutes to play.
 
Asiah Dingle added 19 points, five rebounds, four steals, and two assists, while Kaitlyn Downey handed out a game-high six assists, one off her season-high. Megan Jonassen tallied four points and five boards and Matilda Flood, also off the pine, came through a clutch basket and a clutch block late.
 
Dingle Named A-10 Player of the Week a Second Time
Asiah Dingle earned her second honor of the year two weeks ago, which you can read more about here.
 
Series History
Fordham holds a slim 6-5 margin since the (other) Rams joined the Atlantic 10 in 2013. The (Bronx) Rams are 2-2 at home and 1-1 in the A-10 tournament, including a win in the 2019 championship game at Duquesne. Most recently, Fordham snapped a two-game skid against its foe with last year's 54-48 win in Richmond. Asiah Dingle posted a 19-6-5 line in that one.
 
Nationally Speaking (as of 1/2)
Fordham have played at a much faster tempo this season, averaging 74.1 points per contest, which ranks 66th in the nation. The offense's 1.19 assist/turnover ratio, third in the Atlantic 10, sits 35th nationally. Sunday's three-point drought dropped the offense down from 12th to 37th with 8.3 per game and from 48th to 72nd in percentage, now at 34.1%. The Rams are dishing out the 41st-most assists per game (16.4) while committing just 13.8 turnovers per game, ranked 45th, and have the 114th-best steals per game rate (9.0) in the country. The offense is also hitting free throws at the ninth-best rate (79.8%) despite taking the 342nd-fewest attempts (11.6).
 
Individually, Asiah Dingle is 13th in steals per game, 27th in field goals, 29th in points per game, 101st in free throws made, and 185th in assists per game. Kaitlyn Downey is seventh in defensive rebounds per game, 45th in total boards per game, and 14th in double-doubles. Anna DeWolfe is 63rd in points per game, 33rd in total threes, 29th in field goals, 53rd in threes per game, and 56th in minutes per game.
 
Triple D - DeWolfe, Dingle, Downey
Shut the front door! The Fordham trio have been gnarly, righteous, dynamite, and, perhaps most importantly, the bomb-dot-com. All three earned Atlantic 10 All-Conference honors and had at least one A-10 Player of the Week award last season. Combined, they made up 66.1% of the team's scoring on a combined 40.2% shooting overall. They are the real deal. Through three games so far, those numbers are similar – 65.9% of the scoring on 43.4% shooting. For context for the uninitiated, this entire blurb is an ode to Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
 
Three 1,000-Point Scorers
With her tough turnaround second-quarter jumper at Princeton, Kaitlyn Downey became the 25th Ram to score 1,000 points in program history. Now 20th with 1,126 points, she joins Asiah Dingle (1,714 across three schools and five seasons) and Anna DeWolfe (1,540 - fifth-most in school history). Nationally, the Rams are one of 11 schools with three active student-athletes with 1,000 career points, although they are the only mid-major school. Virginia Tech has four.
 
Asiah and Co. Steal the Show
You thought Asiah Dingle's five steals in the season opener was a handful? She doubled that with a program-record 10 against Saint Peter's, notching her ninth and 10th on consecutive possessions in the third quarter. Her previous best was six, which she'd accomplished several times over her career, including once with Fordham. The previous school record was eight, done five times by four student-athletes, but not since Lauren Fleischer in 2001. Her teammates added 11 thefts against the Peacocks to set a new single-game team record, as well, by three, with 21.
 
Are You Experienced?
Fordham's current starting lineup entered this season with a mammoth 488 career games played, unofficially the most in the country via asking national Division I SIDs. Behind them at the beginning of the year were Virginia Tech (431), Oklahoma (427), and UT Arlington (402, but 444 including JUCO). Fordham is now up to 558 games played for its starting five with grad transfer Jada Dapaa adding 101 off the bench.
 
Captains +1
Fifth-years Kaitlyn Downey and Megan Jonassen, plus senior Anna DeWolfe, served as team captains last year. They will do so again this year plus new addition Jada Dapaa, who was voted as the fourth captain by her teammates. It's Downey's fourth year as a captain, most in program history after J.J. Radice's three years, DeWolfe's third, and Jonassen's second.
 
Up Next
The Rams travel to Dayton for a noon showdown on Sunday on CBS Sports Network.