Gallery: (1-22-2022) Men's Basketball vs. Davidson
Bronx, N.Y. – The two teams entered the games as polar opposites. One team was riding an NCAA season-best 14-game winning streak and was perfect in the Atlantic 10. The other had dropped two straight and was without its leading rebounder. And for 32 minutes, Fordham University gave Davidson College all it could handle before coming up short, falling to the Wildcats, 69-66, in the Rose Hill Gym.
With the loss, Fordham falls to 9-8 overall, 2-3 in the Atlantic 10, while Davidson wins its 15th straight to improve to 16-2, a perfect 6-0 in the conference.
Graduate student guard
Darius Quisenberry led all scorers in the game with a season-high 36 points, hitting six three-pointers, and he added four assists while sophomore
Antrell Charlton added nine points and three assists. Quisenberry's 36 points are the most scored by a Ram since Andre McClendon also netted 36 against Holy Cross in 1990.
The Rams played without the services of graduate student
Chuba Ohams, who was averaging 13.8 ppg and a team-best 11.4 rpg, due to injury.
The Rams trailed by four, 65-61, with 14 seconds left but a Quisenberry three with six ticks on the clock made it a one-point game. Davidson's Foster Loyer was fouled on the inbounds pass and buried both free throws to make it a 67-64 game.
Fordham inbounded the ball and Quisenberry was able to dribble to the top of the arc but he was bumped on his three-point attempt as the horn sounded.
The Rams controlled the first half, holding the Wildcats to 24 points as Fordham took a 31-24 lead at the break.
Fordham managed to get the lead to as many as 13, 40-27, early in the second half on a
Josh Colon-Navarro three, before Davidson scored the next eleven points to make it a 40-38 game with 13:44 remaining.
A Quisenberry three two minutes later gave the Rams a 43-38 lead and the Rams would get the advantage up to seven, 47-40, on a Quisenberry jumper but a 15-3 Davidson run helped the Wildcats take a 55-50 lead at 4:23.
Takeaways
• Fordham shot 14-for-15 from the charity stripe but were outscored 24-15 from the line.
• The Rams used their sixth different starting lineup this year.
• Freshman guard Zach Riley made his first appearance for the Rams, playing 3:30 minutes.
• The Rams connected on ten three-pointers in the game, the second straight game with double-digit threes.
• With Ohams missing the game, no Ram has started every game this year.
• The Wildcats entered the game second in the NCAA in three-point field goal percentage, shooting at a .423 clip, but the Rams held them to just .231 (3-13) today.
• Davidson forward Michael Jones is the brother of NY Giants quarterback Daniel Jones.
By the Numbers
10 – Free throws made by
Darius Quisenberry (on ten attempts).
10 – Fordham players who appeared in the game.
36 – Points by
Darius Quisenberry, a season-high for the Rams and the first 30-point game for a Rams since Nick Honor scored 30 vs. Rutgers in 2018 (Quisenberry's career-high is 41 points while at Youngstown State)
What's Next?
• The Rams return to action and continue Atlantic 10 play on Tuesday, January 25, as they travel to Dayton, Ohio, to face the University of Dayton Flyers in the UD Arena at 7:00 p.m.
• It will be the 39th meeting between Fordham and Dayton on the hardwood.
• The Flyers lead the all-time series, which started in 1952-53, 32-6, and have won 16 of the last 17 match-ups.
• The Rams took last year's meeting, 55-54, on January 5 in the Rose Hill Gym, snapping a 16-game Dayton winning streak in the all-time series, as
Chris Austin scored a game-high 20 points for Fordham.
• The Flyers won the 2019-2020 meeting, 70-56, on February 1 in Dayton as Obi Toppin and Trey Landers each netted 18 points for Dayton.
• Prior to last year, the last Ram win occurred on January 4, 2005 as Fordham upended the Flyers, 66-56, in the Rose Hill Gym as Jermaine Anderson netted 18 points and Marcus Stout added 12.
