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 Saturday's game marks the GW women's basketball program's third annual Pink Zone game. Fans are encouraged to join the GW and Fordham players, coaches and staff in wearing pink to Saturday's game |
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GW Enters Pink Zone for Key A-10 Clash With Fordham
Feb. 19, 2010
GW vs. Fordham Notes 
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WASHINGTON - The George Washington women's basketball team plays just its second game in 14 days when it hosts Fordham at Charles E. Smith Center Saturday at 2:00 pm. The Colonials are 11th in the A-10 standings with four league contests remaining, while the Rams are 13th with two games left.
Saturday's game marks the GW women's basketball program's third annual Pink Zone game, an event sponsored by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and designed to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research and the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund through fan support. Fans are encouraged to join the GW and Fordham players, coaches and staff in wearing pink to this special game.
GW (5-18, 2-8 A-10) is coming off a 74-50 loss at St. Bonaventure on Valentine's Day, its fourth consecutive defeat. Sophomore Sara Mostafa posted her fifth double-double of the season with 14 points and 10 boards, but the Colonials trailed throughout in just their third loss to the Bonnies in 35 meetings all-time.
GW has won all 15 previous meetings with Fordham by a whopping 25.3 points per game, including a +31.9 margin at Smith Center. The most recent meeting, a 55-52 Colonials triumph in Bronx, NY, was the first meeting decided by fewer than 11 points. The last time the teams' met in the District, #15 GW claimed a share of the 2008 A-10 title by routing winless Fordham, 66-27. The 27 points were the fewest ever surrendered by GW in A-10 play and fewest for Fordham since NCAA play began in 1981.
Fordham (8-19, 2-10 A-10) dropped its fifth straight game and 16th in its last 18 games in a 71-60 loss to visiting Saint Louis at Rose Hill Gym Tuesday night. The defeat dropped the Rams into 13th place in the Atlantic 10 standings, one game behind the Colonials with two league contests remaining.
Randall Hurst, who leads FU in scoring at 14.1 points per game, came off the bench to match a season-high 23 points, but it wasn't enough to equal Lauren Woods' career-best 27 points on 9-of-11 shooting which sparked the Billikens to a season-best 58.3 percent (28-of-48) effort from the field.
Hurst is sixth in the A-10 at 14.1 ppg and ranks 11th in rebounding at 6.3 rebounds per game. Becky Peters adds 10.1 ppg and Tiffany Stokes chips in 5.9 rpg.
The Rams have equaled last season's eight victories after combining for a 3-54 mark in Cathy Andruzzi's first two seasons from 2006-08, which included a 0-29 record in 2007-08. Fordham marks Andruzzi's third head coaching job after stints at Wagner (1976-78) and East Carolina (1978-84). Andruzzi and the ECU Pirates split a pair of meetings against GW in Feb. and Nov. 1983.
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