@FordhamWBB 2020-21 Game Notes 2014 & 2019 Atlantic 10 Champions · 6 Postseason Berths in 9 Years (2 NCAA, 4 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 (1-0, 0-0 A-10) Game 2 NOVEMBER (1-0) Hamden, Conn. - People's United Center 25 at Stony Brook W, 62-58 Fordham Rams (1-0, 0-0 A-10) DECEMBER (0-0) at 5 at Quinnipiac 2 p.m. Quinnipiac Bobcats (1-1, 0-0 MAAC) 8 Fairleigh Dickinson 7 p.m. 13 at Seton Hall 5 p.m. Saturday, December 5, 2020 - 2 p.m. 18 Hofstra 7 p.m. JANUARY (0-0) 1 George Mason * 1 p.m. NEWS AND NOTES 3 George Washington * 2 p.m. - Surprisingly, given the distance, this will be the first-ever meeting between Fordham and Quinnipiac. 8 at Rhode Island * TBD - The Rams are coming off an impressive four-point victory at Stony Brook in the season opener last Wednesday. Fordham had a 16-point lead at halftime 10 at Massachusetts * TBD and never trailed in the contest, although the Seawolves battled back to within one in the second half. Anna DeWolfe scored 23 of her career-high-matching 14 at Saint Louis * TBD 25 points in the first half, while Kaitlyn Downey enjoyed a massive 16-point, 20-rebound double-double, becoming the seventh Ram to reach the latter. 16 at Dayton * 1 p.m. - As a result of her performance, Downey was named this season's first Atlantic 10 Player of the Week, her first career league accolade. 22 St. Bonaventure * 2 p.m. 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 (G'mrice Davis in 2018) and made it back-to-back years on the A-10 and MBWA First Teams. Cavanaugh graduated from Fordham as the school's fourth 5 at Richmond * 5 p.m. all-time leading scorer and appears all over the program record book. 7 at VCU * TBD 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 charity stripe, which finished the season as the second-highest mark in the country. 14 La Salle * 2 p.m. 18 at George Mason * TBD - Fordham set another program record last year with the fewest turnovers committed - 371, 26th in the country, good for the third-highest assist/turnover 20 at George Washington * TBD ratio all-time and just the third over 1.0 (1.06), ranked 63rd nationally. 26 Dayton * 2 p.m. - Over nine years under head coach Stephanie Gaitley, Fordham has won two Atlantic 10 championships (2014 and 2019), have seven 20-win seasons, two 28 Saint Louis * 2 p.m. 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 7 #2 VCU %^ 1:30 p coach in Fordham women's basketball history, has a career 191-106 record in the Bronx, good for a .643 win percentage, second-highest all-time. She is * - Atlantic 10 game also the longest-tenured head coach in program history, entering her 10th year, two more than Kevin Morris (1993-2000). - There is no mistaking the ideology of Gaitley's teams: defense, defense, defense. Her Rams have finished within the top-40 nationally in scoring defense in Home Games in bold 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 All times Eastern the 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 78-7 record when holding an opponent under 50 points, something that’s happened in 28.7% of games under Gaitley. PROBABLE STARTERS Anna DeWolfe Katie McLoughlin Sarah Karpell Kendell Heremaia Kaitlyn Downey #2 | 5'8 | G | So. #3 | 5'10 | G | Sr. #13 | 5'7 | G | So. #20 | 5'9 | G | Sr. #24 | 6'1 | F | Jr. PPG 25.0 PPG 2.0 PPG 8.0 PPG 6.0 PPG 16.0 APG 4.0 RPG 3.0 RPG 6.0 RPG 4.0 RPG 20.0 3FG/G 3.0 APG 1.0 APG 5.0 APG 2.0 3FG/G 3.0 FG% .476 SPG 1.0 FG% .429 FG% .333 FG% .385 3FG% .600 FG% .333 3FG% .500 3FG% .600 MPG 40.0 MPG 30.0 MPG 40.0 FT% .750 Follow the Rams on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook & Snapchat - @FordhamWBB #TheFordhamWay 1 @FordhamWBB 2020-21 Game Notes THE UNIVERSITY GAME COVERAGE School .........................................................................................................................Fordham University Watch: ESPN+ City/Zip .......................................................................................................................Bronx, N.Y., 10458 Steve Lennox - Play-by-Play Founded .................................................................................................................................................1841 Bill Mecca - Color Enrollment (Undergraduate) ......................................................................................................... 8,855 Listen: WFUV (90.7 FM & wfuvsports.org) Nickname ..............................................................................................................................................Rams Emmanuel Berbari School Colors.............................................................................................................. Maroon and White Jackson Heil Home Court (Capacity) .....................................................................................Rose Hill Gym (3,200) Affiliation ...................................................................................................................................NCAA Div. I Conference ................................................................................................................................Atlantic 10 Setting the Scene The Rams (1-0) head back to the road to continue the 2020-21 campaign after a four-point win at President .................................................................................................................Joseph McShane, S.J. Stony Brook last Wednesday. Fordham will now turn its attention to Quinnipiac (1-1) on Saturday. Alma Mater, Yr. ........................................................................................................Boston College '72 Tip-off is set for 2 p.m. Interim Director of Intercollegiate Athletics ...........................................................................Ed Kull Athletic Dept. Phone ...................................................................................................(718) 817-4300 Last Time Out Ticket Office Phone .......................................................................................................(855) RAM-TIXS It was a tale of two halves but, after building up as big as a 18-point lead, Fordham survived a lengthy Stony Brook run, which cut the deficit to just one point late in the contest, to pick up its first win of WOMEN'S BASKETBALL COACHING STAFF the new campaign, 62-58. Two of the team's three captains, sophomore Anna DeWolfe and junior Head Coach ..............................................................................................................Stephanie V. Gaitley Kaitlyn Downey, led the way for the Rams, scoring 21 of the team's 22 second-quarter points to help Alma Mater/Year ................................................................................................................ Villanova '82 the visitors to a 39-25 lead at the break. DeWolfe scored 23 of her points in the opening 20 minutes Record at School (yrs) ..........................................................................................191-106 (10 years) before cooling off, while Downey posted a huge 16-point, 20-rebound double-double, a career-high Overall Record (yrs) .............................................................................................655-376 (35 years) in the latter, becoming the seventh Ram to reach the milestone. Fordham shot 48.3% from the floor Office Phone...................................................................................................................(718) 817-4270 in the first half but was held to just 34.8% in the second as the Seawolves nearly erased a 16-point deficit. Down 46-30 at the third-quarter media timeout, Stony Brook went on a 24-9 run, holding Assistant Coach .....................................................................................................................Sonia Burke the Rams to 4-of-17 shooting and nine turnovers. Once the deficit reached one, Fordham made Assistant Coach ..............................................................................................................Valerie Nainima several clutch baskets. Kendell Heremaia