HACKENSACK, N.J. - Coming off of a 15-3 record in conference play last season and being picked to finish second in the 2022-23 Northeast Conference Coaches Preseason Poll, FDU women's basketball posted a 14-2 record in NEC play to win the regular season title in back-to-back years. FDU will play host to #8 Central Connecticut State on Monday night, March 6 at 7 p.m. in the quarterfinal round at Stratis Arena inside the Rothman Center.
The Knights are led by their veteran starting five which is made up of a junior, three seniors, and a graduate students.
Madeline Selvaggi, Dahomée Forges,
Sierra DeAngelo,
Celia Carbonell, and
Chloe Wilson have started every game for the Knights this season where everyone was healthy. The duo of Wilson and DeAngelo earned All-Nec honors this morning with Wilson earning First Team and DeAngelo being slotted into Second Team honors.
The 2022-23 season is
Angelika Szumilo's fourth at FDU, she has built a program up that was sputtering before her arrival. With just eight wins in the season prior to Szumilo arriving in Hackensack, the Knights have not posted a season with less than 13 wins and are in the midst of the best season in program history with 22 regular season victories. The Szumilo Style is to play suffocating defense which the Knights have this season by posting the 6th best scoring defense in all the NCAA by holding opponents to just 52.6 points a contest and ranking number one in the nation in opponent's three-point percentage; the opposition is shooting a remarkably low 22.4%.
Despite being a team that shares the ball and is not reliant on one player, Wilson has been the motor for the Knights offense this season. She finished second in the league with an impressive 16.7 points a contest that included eight double-doubles and a 32-point career-high explosion on February 11 against CCSU.
Monday's battle will be the third time this season that these teams will face off and the second time the Knights will be playing host to the Blue Devils. FDU won the first matchup back in January by six points and then traveled to Connecticut and defeated CCSU by 33 points.
The winner of the battle will advance to the semifinal on Thursday, March 9 at either 7 p.m. live on ESPN3, NEC Front Row and SNY.
