Ryan Ruocco, who is a WFUV alum and called last year's game on YES, and Tom Felice, who called last year's game on WFUV, talk about the excitement of Fordham's upset last year on One on One.
Spero Dedes, the new play-by-play voice of the Knicks and WFUV alum, talks about his call in the great game in 2000 and more.
Coming off of a lackluster performance against Monmouth, the Fordham Rams were in search of a bounce back game when they took on the Siena Saints in Albany, and that’s exactly what they got. The Rams put together start to finish arguably their best performance of the season, as they trounced Siena 74-59, improving to 4-5 on the season. The Rams came out on fire, and shot 54% in the 1st half, including a blistering 7-11 from deep, staking themselves to a 13 point halftime lead.
The word “battle” connotes a brawl, a back-and-forth affair between two evenly matched teams in a struggle for supremacy. By this definition, the Battle of the Bronx failed to live up to its namesake as the Manhattan Jaspers trounced Fordham 81-47 in Draddy Gymnasium on Wednesday night.
George Beamon of Manhattan led all scorers with 15 points on 5-9 shooting, including a perfect 3-3 from beyond the arc. Beamon was one of five Jaspers to reach double figures in scoring.
The most important seconds of Fordham’s victory over Hampton on Monday night might never have happened. After a Pirates bucket cut the Rams’ lead to one point with 22.2 seconds remaining, the clock failed to start following the inbounds pass. Chris Gaston was fouled on the play, and coach Tom Pecora called out to the officials that four seconds should be taken off the clock. Upon looking at the replay, referee Ed Corbett did even better by the Rams, shaving 7.6 seconds off the clock to bring the time remaining to 14.6 seconds.
The Rams men's basketball team 2-3 after a 78-60 loss to Lehigh on Thursday - coach Tom Pecora expected them to be 4-1.
It was a tale of two halves for the Fordham Rams. Despite taking a 29-28 lead into the half, Fordham fell to the Lehigh Mountain Hawks 78-60 at the Rose Hill Gym. With the loss, Fordham is 2-3 on the season. It's the first home loss for the Rams this season.
It was not the most attractive 40 minutes of play but the Fordham Men’s Basketball team pieced together a 79-69 win over Colgate in front of 1,342 spectators at the Rose Hill Gym. In a game that saw 6 players foul-out, 30 total turnovers, 53 fouls committed, and lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes, the Rams overcame an early eight-point deficit and evened their record at 2-2.
When Fordham Men’s Basketball Coach Tom Pecora put together the 2011-2012 schedule he spaced the Rams’ first three games over the course of two weeks. The philosophy proved lethal when the Rams cruised past Binghamton in the second game of the year; however, on Saturday afternoon in Chicago it became perilous. The Rams fell behind 15-3 over the first five minutes of the game and shot 28% from the field on the day as Fordham lost their first ever meeting with Loyola University of Chicago, 64-50.
Coming off of a loss to #5 Syracuse, Fordham’s home opener was everything they could have wanted and more. They cruised to a 64-49 win over the Binghamton Bearcats, evening their record at 1-1 in the process. The young Rams jumped all over Binghamton early, and with strong defense serving as the primary catalyst, led the Bearcats by an astonishing 41-17 margin at the end of the 1st half. However, Binghamton was not ready to go quietly into the night.
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