Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell to Play at Fordham Rams in First Round of WNIT
3/14/2022 3:09:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Tickets to Bucknell's first round WNIT game at Fordham are on sale NOW! Visit the campus box office to purchase. A fan bus will be departing from the Sojka Pavilion loading dock area at 1:15 p.m. on Friday. Seats on the bus are $25 per person and are first come, first serve. Tickets to the game itself are not included. To reserve seats on the fan bus, email Todd Newcomb at tnewcomb@bucknell.edu.
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LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell women's basketball will head to New York to play the Fordham Rams at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 18 at Rose Hill Gym in the Bronx for its first-round game of the 2022 WNIT. It will be the 23rd all-time meeting between the Bison and the Rams and the first since 2017-18.
Fordham, which fell 66-63 to UMass in the Atlantic 10 quarterfinals back on March 4, is 18-10 overall and went 8-6 in conference play. Bucknell (23-9) has shared four common opponents with Fordham this season – Lafayette, Fairleigh Dickinson, George Mason and St. Bonaventure. The Bison and the Rams both went undefeated against those four.
Fordham, a former member of the Patriot League from 1990-95, won 71-62 in the most recent matchup with the Bison in December 2017 and is 16-6 in the all-time series. Bucknell's last win in the series was a 49-39 decision at home back in December 2011.
With a win against Fordham, Bucknell would advance to play the winner of Thursday's game between Norfolk State and Drexel in the second round.
Bucknell appeared in the WNIT as recently as 2018 when it faced West Virginia in Morgantown, W.Va. Bucknell is also one of only two Patriot League teams to win a WNIT game, as it defeated Akron 74-70 in the first round back on March 17, 2016.
Fellow Patriot League team Holy Cross plays Columbia in the first round on Wednesday.
Friday's game against Fordham will be broadcast on ESPN+.
To see the complete 2022 WNIT bracket, visit womensnit.com.
