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Listen to Keith Urgo Podcast – Episode Six
Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham University Rams continue the 2022-2023 season, Fordham's 120th varsity season, and continue Atlantic 10 play by traveling to Fairfax, Va., to face the George Mason University Patriots in EagleBank Arena on Wednesday, March 1 at 7:00 p.m.
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The game will be streamed on ESPN+ with Bill Rohland (PxP) and Craig Eshrick (analyst) announcing as well as broadcast on
www.wfuvsports.org with Thomas Aiello (PxP) and Brian Rabacs (analyst) behind the mics.
Fordham enters the game with a 23-6 overall record, 11-5 in the Atlantic 10, and is coming off a 74-71 A-10 win over Rhode Island in the Rose Hill Gym on Saturday afternoon, while George Mason is 17-12 overall on the year, 9-7 in the Atlantic 10, following a 74-69 A-10 win at Dayton on Saturday night.
Wednesday night's contest will be the 15th meeting between Fordham and George Mason on the hardwood with the Rams leading the all-time series, 10-4, taking both of last year's meetings. Fordham took the first meeting last year, 50-47, on February 20 in the Rose Hill Gym behind 17 points and 12 boards from
Chuba Ohams, and the second meeting, 54-49, in the second round of the Atlantic 10 Championship in Washington, D.C., as Ohams scored 20 points and grabbed 16 rebounds.
Notes
• Freshman guard
Will Richardson has turned it on over the past 12 games, averaging 9.2 ppg while shooting .491 (26-53) from behind the arc.
• Grad student forward
Khalid Moore is averaging 16.8 ppg over the past eleven games.
• Moore is averaging 14.8 ppg, second on the team and 13th in the Atlantic 10, and 6.4 rpg, along with 47 assists, 33 steals, and eleven blocks.
• Grad student guard
Darius Quisenberry, who scored his 2,000
th career point at Richmond, is leading the Rams in scoring at 17.1 ppg, sixth in the Atlantic 10.
• Junior guard
Kyle Rose is third in the Atlantic 10 in steals (1.9/game).
• Junior
Abdou Tsimbila leads the Atlantic lead 10 in blocks (1.9/game) and is tied for ninth in the Atlantic 10 in rebounding (6.5).
• The win over Rhode Island on February 25 brought Fordham to eleven Atlantic 10 wins on the year, surpassing the record for A-10 wins in a season of ten set by the 2006-2007 squad.
• Fordham has won ten of the past 13 Atlantic 10 games, the first time the Rams accomplished that since joining the A-10.