The regular season is headed toward the finish line for Fordham Men’s Basketball. Before the Rams’ Saturday night matchup with the Saint Joe’s Hawks, Mack Rosenberg and I sat down with Head Coach Tom Pecora .
The Fordham Rams closed out the 2012 calendar year the right away, defeating the Monmouth Hawks 82-71 at the Rose Hill Gym on New Year’s Eve. With the win, the Rams have now won three out of their last five games. That may not sound like much, but the team has shown much improvement since their 1-8 start.
Fordham committed 14 turnovers in a very sloppy first half. Those turnovers, combined with the fact that Chris Gaston and Branden Frazier, the team’s two top scorers, combined for just 8 first half points, had the Rams down 33-28 at intermission.
The Fordham Rams are back in the Preseason NIT for the first time since 2006, and the 4th time since 1990, when they received their first invite. They hadn't won a game in six tries coming into the tournament, and they failed to change their luck Monday night in Pittsburgh, losing 86-51 to the Panthers.
With expectations high after knocking off Georgia Tech and #22 ranked Harvard in their last two home games, Fordham came up a little short Saturday afternoon when hosting the team that’s been the class of the A-10 for the past decade, the Xavier Musketeers. In a back and forth game, the young Rams yielded to the Musketeers 67-59, falling to 7-8 on the season and 0-2 in the Atlantic 10.
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