Men’s Basketball Travels to La Salle on Saturday
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Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham University Rams go on the 2020 Atlantic 10 time by touring to Philadelphia to face the La Salle University Explorers in Tom Gola Arena on Saturday, January 2, at 6:30 p.m.


The video game will be broadcast live on the NBC Sports activities Network with Loaded Lerner (play-by-perform) and Tim McCormick (color) on the connect with, and broadcast dwell on wfuvsports.org with Jackson Heil (play-by-engage in) and Andrew Posadas (color) announcing.


Fordham enters the match off a 71-47 season-opening decline to George Washington in the Rose Hill Health and fitness center on Wednesday afternoon although La Salle enters with a 4-5 in general report 1-1 in the Atlantic 10, and is coming off a 67-65 meeting win at Dayton final Wednesday.


Saturday night’s contest will be the 60th meeting involving Fordham and La Salle on the hardwood. The Explores direct the all-time collection, which started in the 1953-54 time, 42-17, and have gained the past eight meetings following Fordham had won a few straight. The Explorers took the two of previous year’s conferences, 66-60, on January 5 in the Rose Hill Fitness center as Scott Spencer and Isiah Dees just about every scored 13 points for the Explorers though Ivan Raut led all scorers for the Rams with 18, and 58-49, on February 19 in Philadelphia as Ed Croswell scored 12 factors and grabbed 9 rebounds for the Explorers while Josh Navarro led all scorers with 14 points for Fordham.

Notes

• Sophomore ahead Joel Soriano scored 12 details and added 12 rebounds in the George Washington game, his 6 double-double in his previous seven video games.


• Soriano also experienced a vocation-substantial 4 blocks from the Colonials.


• Due to the fact of COVID delays, the Fordham Rams have been one particular of six groups to start off their period when Fordham hosted George Washington on December 30 (not like Ivy and Patriot League universities).


• The Rams opened in advance of only Alabama Point out (Jan. 2), Siena (Jan. 3), and Merrimack (Jan. 7).


• UMES and Bethune Cookman have decided to not perform the 2020-2021 time.
• The Rams will be sporting specific black warmup t-shirts this time with #Equality on the entrance and the A-10 Connecting for Transform symbol on the back again. The Fordham gamers picked the term as aspect of the Connecting For Change marketing campaign, sponsored by the Atlantic 10 men’s basketball coaches and student-athletes.