{"id":362872,"date":"2025-12-21T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362872\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:57:08","slug":"mens-basketball-hosts-new-haven-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362872\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Basketball Hosts New Haven on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#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 Monday, December 22, as they host the University of New haven Chargers in the historic Rose Hill Gym at 11:00 a.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe game will be broadcast live on SNY and streamed on ESPN+ with Andrew Bogusch (PxP) and Andrew Posadas (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 Chris Carrino (PxP) and Tucker Austin (analyst) behind the mics.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFordham enters the game with an 8-4 record after an 82-53 home win over Manhattan on December 13 while New Haven is 5-6 on the season following an 70-64 loss at NJIT on December 10.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMonday afternoon&#8217;s game will be the first meeting between the Rams and the Chargers on the hardwood.<\/p>\n<p>Notes<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Junior forward <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/rikus-schulte\/15106\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15106\" target=\"_blank\">Rikus Schulte<\/a> is averaging 13.4 ppg and 10.0 rpg over the past eight games with five double-doubles during that time frame.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Rikus is shooting .697 (46-66) over that stretch and .646 (62-96) on the season.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Senior guard <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/christian-henry\/15110\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15110\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Henry<\/a> is averaging 18.8 ppg over the past five contests, including a career-high 29 points against UAlbany.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Henry is also averaging 6.8 apg over the last five, including tying his career-high with nine helpers vs. Manhattan.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Junior forward <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/akira-jacobs\/15107\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15107\" target=\"_blank\">Akira Jacobs<\/a> is averaging 9.0 rpg over the past two games, matching his career-high with ten boards vs. Manhattan.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Redshirt freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/abass-bodija\/15108\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15108\" target=\"_blank\">Abass Bodija<\/a> is averaging 8.8 ppg over the past four contests.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 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> has scored in double figures in all eleven games he has appeared in.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 New Haven is in its first year in the NCAA Div. 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II.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Fordham is 54-14 all-time against teams currently in the Northeast Conference, including wins this year over Wagner, LIU, and FDU.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 The 2025-26 Fordham squad features nine new players including eight transfers.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Of the eight transfers, three are grad transfers.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Over the past four years, Fordham has compiled a 31-15 record in the Rose Hill Gym.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 The Rams are represented by three captains this year: grad guards <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/marcus-greene\/15150\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15150\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Greene<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/dejour-reaves\/15111\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15111\" target=\"_blank\">Dejour Reaves<\/a>, and junior forward <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhamsports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/rikus-schulte\/15106\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15106\" target=\"_blank\">Rikus Schulte<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; BRONX \u2013 The Fordham University Rams continue the 2025-2026 season, Fordham&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-362872","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\/362872","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=362872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}