Women's Basketball Hosts George Mason Sunday for Senior and Alumni Day

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Bronx, N.Y. – Fordham (16-10, 8-5) returns home to host George Mason (13-14, 6-8) on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. It is the Rams' Senior Day and Alumni Day. The game will be broadcast live on SNY, ESPN+, and WFUV.
 
Play4Kay Pink Game/NGWSD
Fordham's game against Loyola Chicago was the team's annual PINK game, to honor and support those afflicted by breast cancer, while raising money for breast cancer awareness and research. It was also a belated National Girls and Women in Sports Day celebration. Fans interested in donating to the Play4Kay foundation can do so at this link.
 
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 209 made threes and a whopping 230 steals! Thank you for all your continued support!
 
Senior Day
The Rams will honor eight graduating members of the Class of 2023 – grad students Chloe Chaffin, Jada Dapaa, Kaitlyn Downey, and Megan Jonassen, fifth year Asia Dingle, and seniors Kate Deutsch, Anna DeWolfe, and Sarah Karpell, pregame before tip-off, scheduled to start at 3:18.
 
Last Time Out
The Rams struggled in a 61-49 loss at La Salle on Thursday, trailing the entire contest. Fordham got within one at halftime, 26-25, but ultimately could never get over the hump. The offense struggled to a 31.8% shooting clip, 11.8% from behind the arc, with 20 turnovers. The Explorers, meanwhile, shot 44.4% overall, 28.0% from deep, and committed 23 turnovers. The Rams did grab 13 offensive rebounds and produced 12 steals. Anna DeWolfe (17) and Asiah Dingle (15) led the way on offense while Jada Dapaa corralled 10 more rebounds, four offensive.
 
Series History
Fordham holds an 11-3 all-time record against the Patriots since 2001. George Mason won three of the first four meetings before joining the Atlantic 10 in 2013-14. The Rams have won all 10 games since then, including twice last year. Most recently, Fordham defeated the Patriots in the opening round of the A-10 Championship, 66-50. Asiah Dingle produced a 17-point, 12-rebound double-double in that one, while Kaitlyn Downey put up an 11-8-5-2-2 line.
 
Iron Women
Kaitlyn Downey set the program record for career starts at Saint Joseph's, her 127th, in her 133rd career appearance, third-most all-time. Downey has never missed a contest, making all 139 appearances consecutively since arriving on Rose Hill. Anna DeWolfe made her 100th consecutive start against Richmond, like Downey all consecutively since she arrived in the Bronx, up to 105 straight, and Sarah Karpell appeared in her 100th game at St. Bonaventure. Asiah Dingle and Jada Dapaa are also up to 135 and 113 games, too, respectively.
 
Nationally Speaking (as of 2/17)
Fordham have played at a much faster tempo this season, averaging 72.8 points per contest, which ranks 52nd in the nation. The offense's 1.16 assist/turnover ratio, third in the Atlantic 10, sits 31st nationally, with the 35th-most assists per game (16.1). From behind the arc, the Rams are 36th with 8.0 threes per game, 52nd with 23.8 attempts, and 77th with a 33.6% success rate. The squad is committing just 13.8 turnovers per contest, ranked 50th, with the 58th-best turnover margin (3.31). The offense is also hitting free throws at the 36th-best rate (76.6%) despite taking the 346th-fewest attempts (10.7).
 
Individually, Asiah Dingle is sixth in steals per game, 11th in field goals, and 25th in points per game. Anna DeWolfe is 34th in points per game, 16th in field goals, 24th in total threes, 34th in threes per game, and 42nd in minutes per game.
 
Where Do The 2022-23 Rams Stand in Program History?
Fordham is playing at a much faster tempo this season and its 72.8 points per game average, 52nd in the nation, is a perfect example of that. In fact, that would be second-highest behind only the current record of 73.2, set in 1983-84, 0.6 better than the 1991-92 team. With a handful of games left, the team is also threatening in several other categories. The squad already has the fifth-most threes (208), the second-best assist/turnover ratio (1.16), and second-fewest turnovers (360). The team's 76.6% free-throw rate is also currently fourth-best all-time.
 
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 13 games, those numbers are similar - 66.4% of the scoring on 43.5% shooting with two Player of the Week honors for Dingle and one for Downey. 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 14th with 1,233 point, she joins Asiah Dingle (1,948 across three schools and five seasons) and Anna DeWolfe (1,771 - fifth-most in school history). Nationally, the Rams are one of 12 schools with three active student-athletes with 1,000 career points, although they are one of only two mid-major schools, along with UMass. Virginia Tech has four 1,000-point scorers.
 
Hungry Like DeWolfe
The 2020-21 Atlantic 10 Co-Player of the Year and two-time WBCA All-America honorable mention, senior Anna DeWolfe is averaging 18.3 points per game on 43.3% shooting overall and 37.7% shooting from distance (69-of-183). Named to the Preseason All-Conference First Team, she became the 24th Ram to reach 1,000 career points on December 12, 2021 against Lafayette, doing so on a patented mid-range jumper, hitting nothing but net, and is now up to fifth all-time with 1,771 points.
 
For her career, across 105 consecutive starts, DeWolfe is fourth with 696 field goals, third with 228 three-pointers, fifth with a career 16.9 per-game scoring average, is eighth with a 82.5% rate the line, and has joined the all-time top-10 for career minutes played against Richmond, now fourth with 3,859.
 
Dingle All The Way
The Boston native is up to 135 career appearances across three schools and four-plus seasons, now with 117 career starts, starting all but one contest for Fordham since she arrived. Last year a Third Team All-Conference selection and now a preseason Second Team honoree, Dingle leads the team and league in scoring (19.3 points), assists (85), and steals (87), while shooting 44.7% from the floor, 34.5% from behind the arc, and 76.0% on a team-high 96 free-throw attempts. Her 87 steals are already fourth-most in a campaign in program history.
 
For her career, she has accumulated 1,948 points, averaging 14.4 per game, 703 field goals, 313 steals, and a 421 assist/439 turnover ratio. She is a 42.9% career shooting with averages of 4.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists, and 2.3 steals per game. Prior to her arrival in the Bronx, Dingle was a 19.2% three-point shooter on 104 career attempts. Last year she shot 18-of-64 (28.1%) and has continued to work at her long-range shot, shooting 34.5% this year on a career-high 116 attempts.
 
Among active players in Division I, she has been in a three-way battle all season for steals alongside Michigan State's Stephanie Visscher and Gardner-Webb's Jhessyka Williams, but is currently tops in the nation, 17 ahead of the latter. She's also 12th with 464 free throws made and seventh with 641 attempts.
 
Princess Of Thieves
Asiah Dingle played in her 50th Fordham game against Richmond, where she totaled eight steals, tied for second-most in program history. She, of course, owns the record, too, set this year against Saint Peter's, with 10, and her 87 steals this year are already fourth-most in a single season. Dingle is Division I's active leader in steals by a whopping 17, with 313. She has at least one steal in all but two contests this year and at least two in all but four, with 13 instances of four or more. Last year she had eight such games and is up to 34 for her four-year career.
 
Downey Moving Up
The graduate forward broke the program record at Saint Joseph's for career starts, with 127, surpassing Samantha Clark ('17), and has now appeared in 139 consecutive contests since arriving in the Bronx. At Princeton earlier this season, she became the 25th Ram to reach 1,000 career points. She's up to 14th now with 1,233, passing Cecelia Wanker ('83), Hannah Missry ('17), and former teammate and now assistant coach Lauren Holden ('19) at Dayton. She also fifth with 873 career rebounds, seventh with 211 three-pointers, and 10th with 88 blocks.
 
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.
 
Up Next
Fordham hosts Rhode Island in the regular season home finale on Wednesday night at 7 p.m.