THE BASICS
Rhode Island (12-7, 3-4 Atlantic 10) at Fordham (9-10, 2-5 Atlantic 10)
Tip-Off: Wednesday, Feb. 2, 7:00 p.m. EST
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RHODE ISLAND VS. FORDHAM - SERIES NOTES

• Wednesday's game will be the 70th meeting between Rhode Island and Fordham.
• The Rams lead the all-time series 40-29, including victories in three of the last four meetings.
• Rhode Island is 20-17 all time in Rose Hill Gym, the oldest basketball facility still in use in Division I college basketball.
• URI has won its last two visits to Fordham, including a 76-75 win on Feb. 26, 2020 when Jacob Toppin made two free throws with 6.6 seconds remaining to provide the winning margin.
• When the teams met last season, Rhode Island won 52-42. URI held Fordham to 14 second-half points and ended the game on a 13-2 run. Jeremy Sheppard had 16 point and nine rebounds while Ishmael Leggett added 12 points and seven rebounds in his first career start.
• Fordham is led by a pair of graduate students in forward Chuba Ohams and guard Darius Quisenberry.
• Ohams - who appeared in only one game last season while rehabbing from a knee injury - is one of the best big men in the Atlantic 10. He leads the conference and ranks eighth in the country with 11 double-doubles, averaging 13.8 points and 11.3 rebounds per game.
• Quisenberry is a transfer from Youngstown State, where he was a two-time All-Horizon League honoree.
• He leads Fordham with 17.7 points per game, which ranks second in the conference.
• Fordham head coach Kyle Neptune is in his first season at the helm. With nine victories this year, he already has seven more wins than Fordham had last year.
• Both teams enter the week trying to snap losing streaks. Fordham has dropped five straight contests after winning its first two A-10 games of the season.
• Rhode Island is looking to snap a three-game skid. Two of the losses have been two-point affairs.

MAKHI MITCHELL RECORDS FOURTH DOUBLE-DOUBLE

• Forward Makhi Mitchell had his fourth double-double of the season at Dayton, getting 12 points and 11 rebounds.
• It was his third straight game with 11 or more rebounds. He had 12 against Richmond and 10 vs. George Washington.
• He had 10 or more rebounds three times in the first 16 games of the season.
• The recent surge has bumped Mitchell has increased his rebounding average to 6.9 per game.
• He had a career-high 18 rebounds in the team's win over Bryant on Nov. 12.
• Mitchell is the team's third leading scorer with 9.6 points per game.
• He has scored in double figures 11 times, which ties him with his brother Makhel Mitchell for the team lead.
• The 6-9 Mitchell has shown a deft passing touch, recording 27 assists this season.
• He has at least one assist in 14 of 19 games.