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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 Philadelphia. Pa., to take on the Saint Joseph's University Hawks in Hagan Arena on Saturday, March 2, at 12:30 p.m.
 
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The game will be streamed on ESPN+ with Matt Martucci (PxP) and Joe Lunardi (analyst) announcing as well as broadcast on WFUV (90.7 FM) and the WFUV Sports YouTube page with Kris Pursiainen (PxP) and Colin Loughran (analyst) behind the mics.
 
Fordham enters the game with a 12-16 overall record, 6-9 in the Atlantic 10, and is coming off a 61-60 Atlantic 10 win over George Mason in the Rose Hill Gym on Tuesday night while Saint Joseph's enters the game with a 17-11 overall record, 7-8 in the conference, after a 73-69 A-10 loss at VCU last Sunday.
 
Saturday afternoon's contest will be the 60th meeting between Fordham and Saint Joseph's on the hardwood.  The Hawks lead the all-time series, 40-19, but the Rams took last year's meeting, 66-54, in the Rose Hill Gym.

Notes
• Senior guard Kyle Rose is Fordham's all-time games played leader with 136 games played.
 
• Rose has appeared in 130 straight games dating back to his freshman season in 2019-2020.
 
• Senior guard Japhet Medor leads the Rams in scoring (10.5) and is second in assists (2.5/game) while sophomore guard Will Richardson and Rose are second in scoring, each averaging 10.0 ppg.
 
• Over the past 17 games, senior guard Kyle Rose is averaging 12.7 ppg and 5.5 rpg, 14.7 ppg over the past seven.
 
• Over the past 12 games, senior guard Antrell Charlton has 43 assists and only 15 turnovers.
 
• Kyle Rose has 208 career steals, sixth all-time at Fordham.
 
• Rose has 59 steals this year (2.1/game), second in the Atlantic 10, while senior guard Antrell Charlton has 39 (1.4/game), and sophomore guard Will Richardson has 37 (1.4/game), tied for seventh most in the A-10 this season.
 
• Senior forward Abdou Tsimbila has 67 blocks in 26 games (2.5/game), second in the Atlantic 10.
 
• Tsimbila has 161 career blocks, fifth all-time at Fordham.
 
• Tsimbila also leads the Rams in rebounding, averaging 6.2/game, eleventh in the Atlantic 10.
 
• After averaging 2.7 ppg and 2.0 rpg last year, sophomore forward Elijah Gray is averaging 9.4 ppg and 4.1 rpg this year, including his first collegiate double-double with 12 points and eleven rebounds versus Davidson.
 
• The Rams did not lose any student-athletes to the transfer portal from 2022-23.
 
• The Rams continue the 2024 Atlantic 10 season by traveling to Amherst, Mass., to face the University of Massachusetts Minutemen in the Mullins Center on Wednesday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m.