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BRONX, N.Y. (Feb. 14, 2025) – The Fordham men's basketball team will return to action on Saturday evening with a 6 p.m. road contest against the Richmond Spiders.
Tip-off from the Robins Center is set for 6 p.m. on ESPN+ and 90.7 FM WFUV.
The Rams (11-13, 3-8 A-10) ready for their second trip of the season to Virginia's capital on the heels of a 93-76 loss to Dayton at home on Wednesday night. Much of the contest was closer than the final score may indicate, as the Rams and Flyers were tied at 48 after 20 minutes and Fordham was within three with 11:57 to go.
Jackie Johnson III tallied a game-high 24 points on 9-of-16 shooting, including a 5-for-8 showing from beyond the arc. The effort marked Johnson's 12th 20-point scoring effort of the season. Darius Quisenberry tallied a dozen 20-point performances in each of his two seasons at Fordham, but last Ram to best that number in a single season was Branden Frazier, who accomplished the feat 17 times in 2013-14. Over his last two games, Johnson is averaging 24.5 points on 19-of-33 (57.6%) shooting and has gone 10-of-19 (52.6%) from deep. On the season, Johnson's 18.9 points per game are good for second in the Atlantic 10.
Joshua Rivera and
Japhet Medor finished with 17 points apiece on Wednesday night. Rivera reached double figures for the seventh straight game, a stretch that has seen him average 14.9 points per outing on 46.7% shooting. The junior forward from New Brunswick is also converting at a 42.3% clip (11-for-26) from beyond the arc since the Davidson game on Jan. 11.
Medor recorded his 1,000
th career point against the Flyers in just his 85
th Division I appearance. The graduate student has been playing the best basketball of his Fordham tenure as of late, reaching double figures in 10 straight games and averaging 17.5 points per game over the stretch. On the season, Medor leads the team and ranks sixth in the A-10 with 4.0 assists per outing. He also boasts an assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.2-to-1.
Graduate student
Abdou Tsimbila also reached a career milestone on Wednesday night, recording the 200
th block of his collegiate tenure. 191 of those rejections have come at Fordham, good enough for fourth on the school's all-time list in that category, 26 behind Dud Tongal in third (217, 1978-82).
Richmond (8-17, 3-9 A-10) readies to welcome the Rams following an 87-80 overtime loss to Loyola Chicago on Tuesday. Junior center Mike Walz scored a team-high 20 points in the defeat.
The Spiders have been without their leading scorer, Wagner transfer DeLonnie Hunt, for over a month. Dusan Neskovic, a graduate transfer from Dartmouth, is the only other Spider averaging double figures on the season with 13.5 points per game.
After starting A-10 play with back-to-back wins, the Spiders have lost nine of their last 10.
Saturday will mark the 34
th all-time meeting between Fordham and Richmond. The Spiders own a 25-8 advantage in the series, which dates back to the 1985 NIT.
Richmond has won each of its last six games and 20 of its last 21 against the Rams dating back to 2008.
