{"id":282712,"date":"2025-11-13T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282712\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:01:09","slug":"mens-basketball-travels-to-iona-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282712\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Basketball Travels to Iona on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 BRONX \u2013 The Fordham University Rams continue the 2025-2026 season, Fordham&#8217;s 123rd season of basketball, on Friday, November 14, as they travel up Route 95 to New Rochelle, N.Y., to face the Iona University Gaels in the Hynes Athletics Center at 7:00 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe game will be streamed on ESPN+ with Eddy Occhipinti (PxP) and Kevin Hamilton (analyst) announcing as well as broadcast on WFUV (90.7 FM) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WFUVSports\/streams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WFUV Sports YouTube<\/a> page with Tucker Austin (PxP) and Joe Henry (analyst) behind the mics.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFordham enters the game with a 2-1 record after a 63-61 win over Wagner College in the Rose Hill Gym on Tuesday night while Iona is 2-0 on the season following a 105-91 win at the University of Missouri-Kansas City on Tuesday night.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFriday night&#8217;s game will be the 64th meeting between Fordham and Iona on the hardwood, the first since 2006. The Rams lead the all-time series, 32-31.<\/p>\n<p>Notes<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Fordham won the last matchup, 70-54, on December 3, 2006 in the Rose Hill Gym.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 The two teams were members of the MAAC from 1981-1990.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Fordham is 197-145 all-time against schools currently in the MAAC.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 The Rams will se a familiar face on the Iona bench as former Fordham assistant coach Ronald Ramon is on the Gaels&#8217; staff.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Iona will also see a familiar face on the Fordham bench as grad student guard <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/dejour-reaves\/15111\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15111\" target=\"_blank\">Dejour Reaves<\/a> played for the Gaels last year, earning All-MAAC honors.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 The 2025-26 Fordham squad features 12 new players including ten transfers.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Of the ten transfers, five are grad transfers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; BRONX \u2013 The Fordham University Rams continue the 2025-2026 season, Fordham&#8217;s 123rd season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-282712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}