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2020-21 MONMOUTH WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Monmouth Women’s Basketball Contact: Chuck Marvel | [email protected] | 732.263.5834 | 302.388.3089 @MUHawksWBB /MUHawksWBB @MUHawksWBB @MUHawks Head Coach Head Coach Mountain MacGillivray Jody Craig Career: Career: 2020-21 19-43 479-217 DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT (3rd season) (23rd season) 11.27 AT RUTGERS L, 38-82 vs. At La Salle: At Monmouth: 12.02 LA SALLE 7 PM same 31-54 12.05 DREXEL 2 PM (4th season) 12.11 IONA* 7 PM LA SALLE MONMOUTH 12.12 IONA* 7 PM EXPLORERS HAWKS 12.18 AT SAINT PETER’S* 8 PM 0-1 (0-0 A-10) 0-1 (0-0 MAAC) 12.19 AT SAINT PETER’S* 8 PM 12.22 AT SAINT JOSEPH’S 1 PM Wednesday, December 2, 2020 | 7:00 PM 01.01 SIENA* 2 PM 01.02 SIENA* 2 PM The OceanFirst Bank Center | West Long Branch, NJ 01.08 AT CANISIUS* 5 PM 01.09 AT CANISIUS* 5 PM HOW TO FOLLOW 01.15 AT QUINNIPIAC* TBA Watch: ESPN+ | Radio: N/A 01.16 AT QUINNIPIAC* TBA 01.22 MANHATTAN* 7 PM monmouth.statbroadcast.com | www.twitter.com/MUHawksWBB Live Stats: Twitter: 01.23 MANHATTAN* 7 PM LAST TIME OUT 02.05 AT MARIST* TBA Shooting 50 percent (28-56) from the floor, Rutgers defeated Monmouth in the 2020-21 02.06 AT MARIST* TBA season opener on Friday, 82-38. The Scarlet Knights outscored the Hawks 49-12 in the 02.12 NIAGARA* 7 PM second and third quarters to pull away. Freshman Jania Hall led Monmouth with eight 02.13 NIAGARA* 7 PM points on three field goals made, and also grabbed a team-high three steals. Freshman Ga- 02.19 AT FAIRFIELD* 7 PM brielle Wener added seven points in the loss, including two triples early in the first quarter. 02.20 AT FAIRFIELD* 7 PM 03.05 RIDER* 7 PM SCOUTING THE LA SALLE EXPLORERS 03.06 RIDER* 7 PM La Salle welcomes back its top five leading scorers from a season ago, after the Explorers 03.09 MAAC CHAMPIONSHIPS^ TBA doubled both their overall and conference win totals. The team was picked to finish 10th in the Preseason Coaches’ Poll. Sophomore Claire Jacobs was named to the Atlantic 10 Preseason All-Conference Second Team after averaging a team high 13.7 PPG last year. * - Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) game In their season opener, the Explorers fell to Towson, 95-66. Freshman guard Jaye Haynes ^ - MAAC Championships (Atlantic City, NJ) scored 16 points in 19 minutes off the bench. ALL-TIME SERIES VS. LA SALLE La Salle leads the all-time series, 3-1. The teams will meet for the first time since 2015, when the Explorers earned a 65-50 win. PROBABLE STARTERS Pos. # Name Ht. Cl. PPG RPG Notes G 1 Ariana Vanderhoop 5-9 Fr. 2.0 2.0 Led Cathedral High School (Boston, MA) to two state championships G 2 Alexa Wallace 5-8 Jr. - - Played all 62 games in first two seasons. Averaged 16.8 minutes per game G 3 Gabrielle Wener 6-2 Fr. 7.0 2.0 Over 1,000 career points at Messalonskee High School. KVAC First Team All-Conference and Offensive POY F 25 Lucy Thomas 6-0 Jr. 5.0 4.0 Preseason All-MAAC Second Team. Scored in double figures in 26 of 57 career games C 24 Belle Kranbuhl 6-3 Fr. 6.0 3.0 Over 1,000 career points at Adirondack Central High School RESERVES G 11 Jen Louro 5-8 R-Jr. 6.0 1.0 Dropped career-high 24 pts in win over Purdue Ft. Wayne last season.1 Second on team with 24 3FG made G 12 Brianna Livingston 5-9 Sr. - - Played first two seasons at University of Cincinnati. Suffered season-ending injury in second game of 19-20 F 13 Saule Kaupyte 6-0 So. 2.0 1.0 7 pts vs Marist. 9 rebs twice. Earned first career start at Niagara last season G 14 Destiny Jackson 5-6 So. 0.0 3.0 Career-high 4 pts vs Purdue Fort Wayne as a freshman C 15 Fatou Ndao 6-2 Sr. 0.0 0.0 5 pts, 7 rebs at Princeton last season G 20 Jania Hall 5-8 Fr. 8.0 3.0 A 1,000+ point scorer at St. Vincent Pallotti High School. Team-high eight points in season opener at Rutgers F 21 Zareia Chevre 5-10 Fr. - - Named to the All-Conference team three times and was named MVP twice at Simley High School F 22 Sakeria Haralson 6-1 Fr. 2.0 2.0 Averaged 12.4 PPG and 11.3 RPG at Bellwood-Antis High School. Scored 1,000+ career points G 23 Allure Simmons 5-7 Jr. - - Lock-down defender has 47 career steals in 59 games. Career-high 9 pts at Rider as a freshman *APG 2020-21 Monmouth University Women’s Basketball 1 RETURNERS The 2020-21 Hawks return eight players from last season. Junior forward Lucy Thomas was UNIVERSITY QUICK FACTS named to the Preseason All-MAAC Second Team. In her first two seasons, she averaged 9.5 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. Thomas has averaged 25.3 minutes per game in 56 career Location ................................West Long Branch, NJ contests. Junior Alexa Wallace has played in all 62 games over the past two seasons, including Founded ...................................................................1933 27 starts. Wallace has compiled 130 points, 86 rebounds, 49 assists, and 19 steals thus far. She Enrollment (Undergrad + Grad) ................ 6,400 went 20-for-28 (71.4%) from the free throw line last year. Junior Allure Simmons competed in President...............................Patrick F. Leahy, Ed.D. 59 games over her first two seasons, creating havoc on the defensive end with 47 steals. After Athletics Director .................... Dr. Marilyn McNeil sitting out the 2018-19 season due to injury, redshirt junior Jen Louro played in 29 games last Conference.......................................................... MAAC season. Louro’s best game of the season came in a win over Purdue Ft. Wayne, when she scored Nickname ............................................................ Hawks Colors ................................ Midnight Blue and White a career-high 24 points on 8-16 from the floor and 6-13 from deep. SophomoreSaule Kaupyte Arena ........................OceanFirst Bank Center (4,100) saw the court in 18 games as a freshman, including one start. The Lithuanian scored 16 total Website ..................... www.MonmouthHawks.com points to go along with 59 rebounds, including two games with nine rebounds. Sophomore First season of Division I .........................1982-83 Destiny Jackson played in 15 games last campaign, registering a season-high four points in Overall Division I Record ........................568-549 the win over Purdue Ft. Wayne. Senior Brianna Livingston suffered a season-ending injury in First season in MAAC ................................ 2013-14 just the second game last season. Livingston transferred to West Long Branch after playing Conference Championship.............................1987 two years at Cincinnati. Senior Fatou Ndao saw action in 15 games a year ago, averaging 6.2 minutes. Ndao came up with her best game of the season at Princeton, registering a season-high five points and seven rebounds. NEWCOMERS MEDIA SERVICES The Hawks welcome six new student-athletes to West Long Branch, all freshmen. Guard Ariana Vanderhoop led Cathedral (Boston, MA) to two state championships. Vanderhoop also played INTERVIEWS WITH COACH CRAIG for the club team Boston Showstoppers. Forward Gabrielle Wener scored over 1,000 points at Media wishing to interview Coach Craig must Messalonskee High School. After both her sophomore and junior seasons, Wener was named notify Chuck Marvel of the Monmouth Athlet- KVAC First Team All-Conference and Offensive Player of the Year. At St. Vincent Pallotti, guard ics Communications office and twenty-four Jania Hall was a 1,000+ point scorer, including an average of 17 points per game. As a junior, hours of advance notice is appreciated. Coach she netted a career high 25 points. Hall earned All-Conference honors as both a sophomore and Craig is available most weekday mornings for junior, and was twice named to the US Junior Nationals All-Star Team while leading her squad to interviews or after practice. two championships. Forward Zareia Chevre was named to the All-Conference team three times and was named MVP twice at Simley High School. She also played for the Minnesota Fury club PRACTICE COVERAGE team. Forward Sakeria Haralson scored over 1,000 career points, averaging 12.4 PPG and 11.3 Monmouth’s practices are open to the media. RPG at Bellwood-Antis High School. She won the state championship in both her sophomore and Shooting of video and still photos is limited to junior seasons. Other honors for Haralson include Second Team All-Region as a junior, Sports the first 20 minutes of each practice unless Writers All-State, and an ICC Conference All-Star. She led her team to a District 6 Champion- other arrangements are made through the ship, ICC North Championship, and ICC league Championship in 2018. Center Belle Kranbuhl Athletics Communications office. scored over 1,000 career points at Adirondack Central High School, playing five years of varsity. Kranbuhl scored 846 points with 263 blocks and 173 steals during her first four seasons. During her junior season of 2019, she averaged 17.5 points per game, 10.3 rebounds, and 5.1 blocks. MEDIA CREDENTIALS She was an All-State Class B honorable mention as a sophomore, leading the Wildcats into the Arrangements for media credentials for postseason with a 16-0 record. As a junior, the center averaged almost 22 points, 11 rebounds Monmouth home basketball games must be and 4.5 blocks.