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Riverdale, NY - Manhattan women's basketball returns home after three consecutive road games to play Iona (0-16, 0-5 MAAC) on Thursday, January 18 at Draddy Gymnasium. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.
Top Storylines:
- The Jaspers fell to Iona 76-62 at home in the teams' last meeting on January 20, 2017. Kayla Grimme (Altoona, PA / Altoona Area) tallied what was then a career-high 21 points and pulled down a team-high nine rebounds in 39 minutes of action. With the win, the Gaels swept the 2016-17 season series between the two teams.
- Manhattan leads the all-time series against Iona 45-31. The last time the Jaspers defeated the Gaels was January 18, 2016, when Manhattan came from behind in the fourth quarter to defeat Iona 63-56.
- Senior guard Amani Tatum (Cambria Heights, NY / James Madison) currently ranks 14th among Division I players in three-point field goal percentage (45.6); in the past two games, she went for 10-18 from behind the arc.
- Tatum also leads the MAAC in this category, as well as steals (48) and steals per game (2.8). She is second in the league in assists (70) and assists per game (4.1), and is 13 assists away from earning 300 during her time at Manhattan.
- While playing Canisius on January 11, Grimme became one of just five other Manhattan women's basketball players to reach both the 1,200-point and 800-rebound thresholds in their careers. The others are: all-time leading rebounder Rosalee Mason (1,875 points, 1,217 rebounds), Gina Somma (1,838 points, 819 rebounds), Stacey Jack (1,665 points, 823 rebounds), and Manhattan Athletic Director Marianne Reilly (1,305 points, 860 rebounds). Grimme enters the Iona game with 1,223 points and 820 rebounds. The school's all-time blocks leader, she is four away from reaching 200 blocks for her career.
- At 0-16, Iona has surpassed its longest losing streak since 2004-05. The team currently holds the longest winless streak to begin a season in program history. An extremely young team, 10 of Iona's 13 roster spots are filled by underclassmen, the highest percentage (76.9) in the MAAC.
- Freshman Toyosi Abiola earned her seventh MAAC Rookie of the Week accolade on January 15, and she ranks top-10 in the MAAC in five different statistical categories: scoring, free-throw percentage, three-point field goal percentage, three-point field goals made, and minutes played, where she ranks number one, averaging 35.5 minutes per game.