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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 University of Massachusetts Minutemen in the historic Rose Hill Gym on Wednesday, February 8 at 7:00 p.m.
General admission tickets for the game are sold out. Tickets for Fordham students will be available at the door.
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The game will be televised on SNY (on delay on Thursday at 12:00 PM) and streamed on ESPN+ with Mike Watts (PxP) and Andrew Bogusch (analyst) announcing as well as broadcast on
www.wfuvsports.org with Thomas Aiello (PxP) and Brian Rabacs (analyst) behind the mics.
Wednesday night's contest will be the 52nd meeting between Fordham and Massachusetts on the hardwood with the Minutemen leading the all-time series, which started in the 1967-68 season, 33-18. The Rams took last year's first meeting, 85-73, on February 28 in the Rose Hill Gym as
Chuba Ohams scored a career-high 23 points and added eleven rebounds, while UMass took the second two days later, 81-73, in Amherst behind 17 points and ten rebounds from TJ Weeks.
Notes
• Grad student forward
Khalid Moore is averaging 20.0 ppg over the past five games.
• Moore is averaging 15.1 ppg, second on the team and 12
th in the Atlantic 10, and a team-best 6.6 rpg, along with 38 assists, 30 steals, and eight blocks.
• Grad student guard
Darius Quisenberry, who scored his 2,00
th career point at Richmond, is leading the Rams in scoring at 16.7 ppg, sixth in the Atlantic 10.
• Freshman guard
Will Richardson has turned it on over the past seven games, averaging 10.7 ppg while shooting .491 from the field (27-55), .577 (15-26) from behind the arc.
• Junior
Abdou Tsimbila is second in the Atlantic 10 in blocks (1.9/game) and is tied for eleventh in the Atlantic 10 in rebounding (6.5).
• The 6-4 start to the A-10 season is also the first time the Rams are .500 or better after ten games since the 2007 season when they started out conference play 6-4.
• The win over Saint Louis on January 31 marked the first time Fordham won five straight Atlantic 10 games since 2007.
• The last time the Rams won six of eight A-10 games was in 2007.
• Fordham has never won seven of nine A-10 contests.
