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BRONX, N.Y. –  The Fordham University Rams continue the 2023-2024 season, Fordham's 121st varsity season, and continue Atlantic 10 play by traveling to St. Bonaventure, N.Y., to face the St. Bonaventure University Bonnies in the Reilly Center on Saturday, January 13, at 2:30 p.m.
 
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The game will be broadcast live on the USA Network with Mike Corey (PxP) and Dr. John Giannini (analyst) announcing as well as broadcast on WFUV (90.7 FM) and the WFUV Sports YouTube page with Miles Grossman (PxP) and Colin Loughran (analyst) behind the mics.
 
Fordham enters the game with a 7-8 record, 1-1 in the Atlantic 10, and is coming off an 81-76 Atlantic 10 loss to La Salle University in the Rose Hill Gym last Saturday afternoon while St. Bonaventure enters the game with a 10-4 overall record, 1-1 in the conference. after falling to Richmond, 65-54, in an Atlantic 10 game in Richmond last Saturday.
 
Saturday afternoon's contest will be the 49th meeting between Fordham and St. Bonaventure on the hardwood. The Bonnies lead the all-time series, which started in the 1955-56 season, 31-17 (two St. Bonaventure wins in 2002-03 were later forfeited for use of an ineligible player). Fordham took both of last year's meetings, 79-68, in the Reilly Center on January 25 behind 19 points from Khalid Moore and 17 from Darius Quisenberry, and 78-63 on February 15 as Quisenberry netted 15 points and Antrell Charlton added nine.

Notes
• Senior guard Japhet Medor leads the Rams in scoring (13.1) and assists (3.1/game) while sophomore forward Joshua Rivera, who has missed the past four games with an injury, is second in scoring (11.2 ppg) and rebounding (4.9/game).
 
• Over the past four games, senior guard Japhet Medor is averaging 19.5 ppg, including two 20-point games, while sophomore guard Will Richardson is averaging 14.3 ppg and 4.5 apg, and senior guard Kyle Rose is averaging 11.0 ppg and 6.5 rpg (7.7 rpg over the past three).
 
• Over the past two games, sophomore forward Elijah Gray is averaging 20.0 ppg and 6.0 rpg.
 
• Senior guard Kyle Rose has 183 career steals, eighth all-time at Fordham.
 
• Rose has appeared in 123 career games, tied for fourth all-time for the Rams.
 
• Senior guard Kyle Rose has 34 steals this year (2.3/game), second in the Atlantic 10, while senior guard Antrell Charlton has 26 (1.7/game), tied for sixth most in the A-10 this season.
 
• Senior forward Abdou Tsimbila has 38 blocks in 13 games (2.7/game), second in the Atlantic 10 and fifth in the NCAA.
 
• Tsimbila has 132 career blocks, sixth all-time at Fordham.
 
• Tsimbila also leads the Rams in rebounding, averaging 7.8/game, fourth in the Atlantic 10.
 
• After averaging 2.7 ppg and 2.0 rpg last year, sophomore forward Elijah Gray is averaging 9.8 ppg and 4.2 rpg this year.
 
• Fordham is averaging 90.5 ppg over its last four contests.
 
• The two Fordham wins last year snapped an eleven-game winning streak in the series for the Bonnies.
 
• The Rams did not lose any student-athletes to the transfer portal from 2022-23.
 
• The Rams continue the 2024 Atlantic 10 season by hosting the Davidson College Wildcats in the historic Rose Hill Gym on Wednesday, January 17, at 7:00 p.m.