Women's Basketball Hosts Rhode Island, Travels to Davidson in Final Week of the Regular Season

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Bronx, N.Y. – Fordham (16-11, 8-6) hosts Rhode Island (22-4, 13-1) on Wednesday night then travels to Davidson for the final two games of the regular season. Tip-off on Wednesday night on SNY and ESPN+ is set for 7 p.m., while Saturday's game will be shown on ESPN3 at 1 p.m. WFUV will carry coverage of both.
 
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 211 made threes and a whopping 241 steals! Thank you for all your continued support!
 
Four Rams Named CSC Academic All-District
Formerly named CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America), the newly rebranded College Sports Communicators has revamped its Academic All-District model, allowing up to four nominees per school as long as the student-athlete has a 3.5 GPA and has played in 50% of the team's games on the year. Fordham had exactly four eligible players – Kaitlyn Downey, Megan Jonassen, Sarah Karpell, and Colleen McQuillen all earned their first All-District honors on Tuesday afternoon. For Downey, it's not her first rodeo, already being named A-10 All-Academic each of the past two years. Read more here.
 
Last Time Out
The Rams' losing streak reached three with an 11-point loss to George Mason on Sunday. The Patriots led the entire contest as Fordham struggled to sustain a rally long enough to overcome its deficit. The offense struggled to a 33.3% shooting clip, 15.0% from behind the arc, but did hit 16-of-17 free throws, top-five efficiency in program history. Asiah Dingle led the way with 20 points, shooting 5-of-15 but converting all 10 free throw attempts, tied for fourth-best rate with at least 10 attempts, plus five steals. Anna DeWolfe scored 17 with two steals and a block, Kaitlyn Downey added 12 points, seven rebounds, three steals, and a block, and Jada Dapaa hauled in a team-high eight boards, five offensive.
 
Series Histories
Rhode Island - Fordham holds a 22-20 all-time advantage over its rival Rams since 1981. Rhody took the first two meetings in 1981-82 before Fordham joined the A-10 in 1995-96. Since 2010, Fordham has won 13 of 15 contests, with Rhode Island's wins both coming at home, in 2015 and last year in a 58-43 result while they received votes in the WBCA Coaches Poll. Fordham shot 28.8% from the field in that one, 20.0% from distance, with DeWolfe and Dingle scoring 10 points apiece.
 
Davidson – Fordham is 13-5 over the Wildcats since the latter joined the A-10 in 2015, including an 8-2 record inside the friendly confines of the Rose Hill Gym. Earlier this year, Fordham defeated Davidson, 67-64, on New Year's Day in the conference opener. Fordham trailed at halftime but rallied in the second half to upturn the result, led by a combined 44 points from DeWolfe and Dingle and Jada Dapaa's first double-double as a Ram.
 
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 140 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 106 straight, and Sarah Karpell appeared in her 100th game at St. Bonaventure. Asiah Dingle and Jada Dapaa are also up to 136 and 114 games, too, respectively, and Megan Jonassen was up to 129 before her season-ending injury.
 
Nationally Speaking (as of 2/20)
Fordham have played at a much faster tempo this season, averaging 72.4 points per contest, which ranks 54thin the nation. The offense's 1.14 assist/turnover ratio, third in the Atlantic 10, sits 34th nationally, with the 41st-most assists per game (15.9). From behind the arc, the Rams are 48th with 7.8 threes per game, 52nd with 23.7 attempts, and 103rd with a 33.0% success rate. The squad is committing just 13.9 turnovers per contest, ranked 55th, with the 55th-best turnover margin (3.44). The offense is also hitting free throws at the 21st-best rate (77.6%) despite taking the 344th-fewest attempts (10.9).
 
Individually, Asiah Dingle is fifth in steals per game, 14th in field goals, and 25th in points per game. Anna DeWolfe is 32nd in points per game, 17th in field goals, 31st in total threes, 42nd in threes per game, and 40th 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 72.4 points per game average, 54th in the nation, is a perfect example of that. In fact, that would be third-highest behind only the 1983-84 and 1991-92 teams. With only a few games left, the team is also threatening in several other categories. The squad already has the fifth-most threes (211), the third-best assist/turnover ratio (1.14), third-fewest turnovers (374), and ninth-most field goals (758). The team's 77.6% free-throw rate is also currently second-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 - 66.7% of the scoring on 43.1% 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 13th with 1,245 points, she joins Asiah Dingle (1,968 across three schools and five seasons) and Anna DeWolfe (1,788 - fourth-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 42.8% shooting overall and 36.3% shooting from distance (69-of-190). 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 fourth all-time with 1,788 points.
 
For her career, across 106 consecutive starts, DeWolfe is fourth with 703 field goals, third with 228 three-pointers, fifth with a career 16.9 per-game scoring average, is eighth with a 82.8% rate the line, and has joined the all-time top-10 for career minutes played against Richmond, now fourth with 3,897.
 
Dingle All The Way
The Boston native is up to 136 career appearances across three schools and four-plus seasons, now with 118 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 (87), and steals (92), while shooting 44.3% from the floor, 33.9% from behind the arc, and 78.3% on a team-high 106 free-throw attempts. Her 92 steals are already third-most in a campaign in program history.
 
For her career, she has accumulated 1,968 points, averaging 14.5 per game, 708 field goals, 318 steals, and a 423 assist/442 turnover ratio. She is a 42.8% 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 33.9% this year on a career-high 118 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, 22 ahead of the latter.
 
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 92 steals this year are already third-most in a single season. Dingle is Division I's active leader in steals by a whopping 22, with 318. She has at least one steal in all but two contests this year and at least two in all but four, with 14 instances of four or more. Last year she had eight such games and is up to 35 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 140 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 13th now with 1,245, is fifth 880 career rebounds, seventh with 211 three-pointers, and 10th with 89 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
UMass and Rhode Island sit atop the A-10 standings but there is a big pile-up beyond that. Top four teams receive a double bye at next week's Atlantic 10 Championship, which begins next Wednesday, March 1^st. Fordham will begin its quest for a third league title either Thursday or Friday. Stay tuned.