2020-21 Fordham Women's Basketball
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@FordhamWBB 2020-21 Game Notes 2014 & 2019 Atlantic 10 Champions · 7 Postseason Berths in Last 9 Years (2 NCAA, 5 WNIT) 2020-21 Fordham Women’s Basketball Assistant Sports Information Director (Women's Basketball Contact): Ryan Uhlich Email: [email protected] | Office: 718-817-4241 | Cell: 201-873-6616 | Fax: 718-817-4244 | FordhamSports.com 2020-21 Fordham Schedule (0-0, 0-0 A-10) Game 1 NOVEMBER (0-0) Stony Brook, N.Y. - Island Federal Arena 25 at Stony Brook 2 p.m. Fordham Rams (0-0, 0-0 A-10) DECEMBER (0-0) at 2 Manhattan 7 p.m. Stony Brook (0-0, 0-0 America East) 5 at Quinnipiac TBD 8 Fairleigh Dickinson 7 p.m. Wednesday, November 25, 2020 -2 p.m. 13 at Seton Hall TBD 18 Hofstra 7 p.m. JANUARY (0-0) NEWS AND NOTES 1 George Mason * 1 p.m. - Fordham holds a 6-3 series advantage over the Seawolves since their first meeting in 1971, a 28-26 road victory for the Rams. After a pair of losses the 3 George Washington * 2 p.m. next two seasons, Fordham rattled off five straight victories before falling, 58-46, in their most recent contest, in 2012 at home. Gaitley's Rams are 1-1 against Stony Brook since her hire. 8 at Rhode Island * TBD 10 at Massachusetts * TBD - Over nine years under head coach Stephanie Gaitley, Fordham has won two Atlantic 10 championships (2014 and 2019), have seven 20-win seasons, two 14 at Saint Louis * TBD more than in the 40 years before her arrival, and six of the program's 11 postseason berths all-time (last year would've seen a fifth WNIT berth had the COVID-19 pandemic not ended the season abruptly), including two trips to the NCAA Tournament and four appearances in the WNIT. Gaitley, the winningest 16 at Dayton * 1 p.m. coach in Fordham women's basketball history, has a career 190-106 record in the Bronx, good for a .642 win percentage, second-highest all-time. She is 22 St. Bonaventure * 2 p.m. also the longest-tenured head coach in program history, entering her 10th year, two more than Kevin Morris (1993-2000). 24 Duquesne * 2 p.m. - In addition to the since-graduated Bre Cavanaugh, three Rams received year-end All-Atlantic 10 accolades: Kendell Heremaia on the Third Team and Anna 31 Davidson * 2 p.m. DeWolfe on the All-Rookie squad, plus recently graduated Zara Jillings on the All-Academic team. - Cavanaugh was named the Atlantic 10 Player of the Year in March, the first Ram to do so since joining the A-10 in 1995 and just the second all-time FEBRUARY (0-0) (Jeanine Radice in the MAAC in 1989). She also became the program's second-ever student-athlete to garner WBCA All-American honorable mention 5 at Richmond * 5 p.m. (G'mrice Davis in 2018) and made it back-to-back years on the A-10 and MBWA First Teams. Cavanaugh graduates from Fordham as the school's fourth 7 at VCU * TBD all-time leading scorer and appears all over the program record book. 12 Saint Joseph's * 2 p.m. - Despite taking the 13th-fewest free-throw attempts in the country last year (335), the Rams made them count, hitting a program record 79.7% from the 14 La Salle * 2 p.m. charity stripe, which finished the season as the second-highest mark in the country. 18 at George Mason * TBD - Bombs Away! Fordham took the second-most three-point attempts in its history last year (757) and hit the third-most (231). Gaitley's Rams '3-and-D' 20 at George Washington * TBD philosophy has this past decade's teams littered among the top-10 for those respective categories. Nationally, those numbers ranked 22nd and 50th, 26 Dayton * 2 p.m. respectively. 28 Saint Louis * 2 p.m. - Fordham set another program record last year with the fewest turnovers committed - 371, 26th in the country, good for the third-highest assist/turnover 7 #2 VCU %^ 1:30 p ratio all-time and just the third over 1.0 (1.06), ranked 63rd nationally. * - Atlantic 10 game - There is no mistaking the ideology of her teams: defense, defense, defense. Her Rams have finished within the top-40 nationally in scoring defense in every season since her appointment and within the top-20 in seven of them, reaching an apex of ninth in 2018-19 with 54.4 points allowed per game, while the Home Games in bold 2012-13 squad’s average of 52.4 were the fewest allowed despite finishing 16th in the country. Though the 2008-09 team holds the single-season record of 47.9 points allowed, Gaitley’s teams hold the other nine spots in the record book. One illuminating stat to show its defensive dominance is the program’s All times Eastern 78-7 record when holding an opponent under 50 points, something that’s happened in 28.7% of games under Gaitley. POSSIBLE STARTERS (19-20 stats) Anna DeWolfe Sarah Karpell Kendell Heremaia Kaitlyn Downey Megan Jonassen #2 | 5'8 | G | So. #13 | 5'7 | G | So. #20 | 5'9 | G | Sr. #24 | 6'1 | F | Jr. #24 | 6'0 | F | Jr. PPG 12.6 PPG 2.1 PPG 11.8 PPG 9.7 PPG 2.1 RPG 3.7 RPG 2.2 RPG 7.8 RPG 5.7 RPG 3.1 APG 2.3 APG 2.0 APG 2.7 3FG/G 1.4 OREB% .632 3FG/G 1.5 FG% .322 SPG 1.5 FG% .381 FG% .438 FG% .424 3FG% .206 FG% .386 3FG% .307 APPS 13 3FG% .315 MPG 31.1 3FG% .350 FT% .872 MPG 12.5 Follow the Rams on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook & Snapchat - @FordhamWBB #TheFordhamWay 1 @FordhamWBB 2020-21 Game Notes THE UNIVERSITY GAME COVERAGE School .........................................................................................................................Fordham University Watch: ESPN3 City/Zip .......................................................................................................................Bronx, N.Y., 10458 Listen: WFUV (90.7 FM & wfuvsports.org) Founded .................................................................................................................................................1841 Emmanuel Berbari Enrollment (Undergraduate) ......................................................................................................... 8,855 Jackson Heil Nickname ..............................................................................................................................................Rams School Colors.............................................................................................................. Maroon and White Home Court (Capacity) .....................................................................................Rose Hill Gym (3,200) Setting the Scene Affiliation ...................................................................................................................................NCAA Div. I At long last, after more than eight months since the cancellation of all collegiate sports in early March due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in which the Fordham women's basketball program had Conference ................................................................................................................................Atlantic 10 fought for yet another 20-win season and what would've been a WNIT berth, the 2020-21 campaign President .................................................................................................................Joseph McShane, S.J. is set to tip off at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at Stony Brook. Fans can watch the action on ESPN3 and, as Alma Mater, Yr. ........................................................................................................Boston College '72 always, listen along on WFUVSports.com Interim Director of Intercollegiate Athletics ...........................................................................Ed Kull Athletic Dept. Phone ...................................................................................................(718) 817-4300 Last Time Out Ticket Office Phone .......................................................................................................(855) RAM-TIXS The 2019-20 Rams, fresh off winning the Atlantic 10 Championship the season prior, rallied after an 0-4 start to their campaign, including a slim five-point loss in front of a record sold out Rose Hill WOMEN'S BASKETBALL COACHING STAFF Gym against #16 Notre Dame in the season opener, to finish with a 21-11 record, 11-5 in conference Head Coach ..............................................................................................................Stephanie V. Gaitley action, falling in the semifinals to VCU in Dayton. If the season had not been abruptly cut short, Alma Mater/Year ................................................................................................................ Villanova '82 Fordham would have earned a fifth WNIT berth, all coming in the past decade. Just before that, redshirt Record at School (yrs) ............................................................................................ 190-106 (9 years) junior Bre Cavanaugh was named the Atlantic 10 Player of the Year and First Team All-Conference, Overall Record (yrs) .............................................................................................654-376 (34 years) becoming the first Ram in the A-10 era to win the former award and second in program history (Jeanine Radice in the 1989 MAAC). As mentioned, Heremaia and Wolfe also earned All-Conference Office Phone...................................................................................................................(718) 817-4270 distinction, while outgoing junior Zara Jillings was deservedly named to the All-Academic squad. Assistant Coach .....................................................................................................................Sonia Burke Assistant Coach ..............................................................................................................Valerie