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The Game
Stonehill travels to New Jersey to face Fairleigh Dickinson University for an Martin Luther King, Jr., Day NEC matchup on Monday at 2 p.m. The Skyhawks are looking to bounce back after an 80-72 setback at Merrimack on Saturday afternoon, while the Knights enter the game winners of four straight atop the Northeast Conference after Saturday's 59-53 win here over Central Connecticut State.

NEC Speaks Up MLK Day Monday
Stonehill and the Northeast Conference will commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during a full slate of women's and men's games on Monday. The NEC echoes Dr. King's words, "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it." To carry on his legacy, the conference encourages NEC student-athletes, coaches and fans to speak up and share their unique stories of bringing about change through activism and advocacy. For more information, visit the NEC's website at NortheastConference.org/NECSpeaksU. All NEC teams will be wearing special commemorative NEC Speaks Up shooting shirts during the games on Monday.  

Media Information
This afternoon's game will be broadcast live via NEC Front Row. Dan Long (play-by-play) and Rich Terpak (analyst) will call the action at FDU on Monday. The broadcasts can be accessed via stonehillskyhawks.com through its NEC Front Row portal (necfrontrow.com/schools/SC) or through Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku via the NEC On the Run App.

Last Time Out
Merrimack buried half of its three-point attempts and finished shooting 52.7-percent from the floor to claim an 80-72 victory over Stonehill in Northeast Conference women's basketball action in North Andover, Mass., on Saturday. Postgrad Makenzie Bray drained six of Merrimack's ten three-point field in the contest on her way to a team-high 22 points on 7-of-12 shooting overall, including 6-for-10 from long range, while adding four rebounds, two assists a blocked shot and a steal. Stonehill got a career-high 28 points from postgrad Maddie Loder (Independence, Minn.) as she made her first six shots in the game, including a trio of three-pointers, on her way to 9-of-13 shooting overall, including 4-for-7 from deep, converting 6-of-7 free-throws and dished out three assists. Loder scored 15 points in the first quarter alone, all coming in the opening six and a half minutes of the frame as the Skyhawks led by as much as seven on three occasions over the first five minutes of the game. Fifth-year Emily Bramanti (Chelmsford, Mass.) added 16 points, including 13 in the second half, on 6-of-12 shooting, including 4-for-6 from three, with four assists and two boards.

Against the Knights
Stonehill and FDU will be meeting for the first time in the two program's history on Monday. 

Prime Performer
Fifth-year Emily Bramanti (Chelmsford, Mass.) earned Northeast Conference Prime Performer status for the sixth-straight week on Monday. She averaged 18.5 points on 40-percent shooting (12-for-30), converting 10-of-11 (90.9%) free-throws, while adding 3.0 rebounds and an assist per game over Stonehill's two NEC games last week. Bramanti was the lone double-figure scorer for the Skyhawks against Saint Francis (Pa.) on Friday with a game-high 17 points, including 11 in the second half, to go with four rebounds, an assist and blocked shot. She eached the 20-point mark for the third time this season in Sunday's matchup with Sacred Heart, scoring 12 of her 20 in the second half, adding two rebounds, an assist and a steal. Bramanti's six Prime Performer selections leads Stonehill, having also been named the NEC Player of the Week twice, while fellow fifth-year Sophie Glidden (Scarborough, Maine) and senior Mia Kelly (South Hadley, Mass.) have earned the recognition twice, while postgrad Maddie Loder (Independence, Minn.) earned the recognition once to this point.
NEC Prime Performers:
Nov. 14: Maddie Loder
Nov. 28: Sophie Glidden
Dec. 5: Emily Bramanti & Mia Kelly
Dec. 12: Emily Bramanti
Dec. 19: Emily Bramanti
Dec. 26: Emily Bramanti & Mia Kelly
Jan. 3: Emily Bramanti & Sophie Glidden
Jan. 9: Emily Bramanti

Century Mark
Stonehill postgrad Maddie Loder (Independence, Minn.) played the 100th game of her collegiate career against Sacred Heart on Sunday. She has started all 16 games for the Skyhawks this season after transferring from George Washington, where she played 84 games (starting 42) between 2018 and 2022. Loder has totaled 479 points, 195 rebounds, ,152 assists and 53 steals over her collegiate career.

NEC Score
Stonehill fifth-year guard Emily Bramanti (Chelmsford, Mass.) ranks third among NEC scoring leaders in Conference play, averaging 18.7 points through the Skyhawks three NEC contests heading into the weekend.

Globe Mass Top 10
Stonehill fifth-year guard Emily Bramanti (Chelmsford, Mass.) was recognized by the Boston Globe on January 3 as one of the top ten players among the nine NCAA Division I women's basketball programs in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Bramanti was ranked No. 6 by Globe columnist Ethan Fuller. Sam Breen of UMass leads the list that also includes Harvard's Harmoni Tuner (No. 2), Sydney Taylor of UMass (No. 3), Dontavia Waggoner of Boston College (No. 4), Boston University's Caitlin Weimar (No. 5), Taina Mair of BC (No. 7), Northeastern's Derin Erdogan (No. 8), Bronagh Power-Cassidy of Holy Cross (No. 9) and Marissa Hamilton from Merrimack (No. 10).

Sunshine Daydream
Stonehill has posted a 4-3 record in its seven afternoon tip-offs this season after last Sunday's matchup with Sacred Heart, compared to a 1-8 mark in its games starting at 6 p.m., or later. Saturday will mark the Skyhawks first 3:00 tipoff, while they dropped their lone 2:00 start, the scheduled time for Monday at FDU.

Guard on the Glass
Senior Mia Kelly (South Hadley, Mass.) has recorded the first two double-figure rebounding games of her career over Stonehill's last four games, including a career-high 12 boards against Saint Francis on January 6. She has moved into tenth among NEC rebounding leaders with 5.3 rebounds per game - including a team-high 8.0 per game in NEC play, to rank fourth in the Conference. Her 4.2 defensive rebounds per game are good for seventh in the NEC. Kelly is averaging 6.5 boards per game in Stonehill's last ten games.

They are Free. Throws.
Stonehill is one of three teams in the Northeast Conference shooting over 70-percent from the free-throw line this season, ranking third in the league at 71.2-percent. Fifth-year Emily Bramanti (Chelmsford, Mass.) ranks ninth among NEC free-throw leaders at 69.5-percent (41-for-59) - fifth among NEC players with 40-plus made free-throws this season. She is also shooting an NEC-best 92.9% (13-14) from the line in NEC play so far.

Stepping Up
Freshman Melissa Whitmore (Hanover, N.H.) saw action for the first time since November 27 (vs. Oakland) in Stonehill's NEC matchup with Saint Francis last week. She played 22 minutes off the Stonehill bench and posted season-highs with eight points, four rebounds and two blocked shots. Whitmore matched those scoring and rebounding numbers in a season-high 23 minutes against Sacred Heart on Sunday.   

It Makes 'cents
Stonehill has won all five of its games this season in which it has shot a higher field goal percentage than it's opponents, compared to an 0-11 record when it does not.

Streaking
Stonehill fifth-year Emily Bramanti (Chelmsford, Mass.) has scored in double-figures in ten straight games after posting her third 20-point game of the season with her team-high 20 against Sacred Heart last Sunday. She is averaging 19.4 points on 48.1-percent shooting during that span, including 50% (29-58) from three-point distance. She is also contributing 3.2 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.1 steals per game during this stretch.

In Transition
Stonehill announced it had accepted an invitation to join the Northeast Conference and commence a four-year transition to full NCAA Division I membership on April 5. The Skyhawks started their four-year transition on July 1 and will earn full NCAA Division I membership in 2026-27. At the June NEC meetings, the Conference presidents announced a shift in the waiting period for automatic qualifier sports from competing for NEC postseason championships from four to two years, making Stonehill eligible to compete in the NEC postseason starting in 2024-25.

Getting Social
Fans and media members of Stonehill athletics have multiple social media outlets to get updates on all 21 varsity programs. The department's Facebook page is www.facebook.com/stonehillskyhawks, and you can also follow @GoStonehill on Twitter and @stonehillskyhawks via Instagram!  Stonehill women's basketball is also on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/StonehillCollegeWomensBasketball, Twitter and Instagram by following @stonehillwbb. You can even follow head coach Trisha Brown on Twitter via @CoachTB_SC.

Up Next
Stonehill is in the midst of a stretch of five of six games on the road, returning to action on Thursday, when it visits Wagner College for an NEC matchup at 7 p.m. The Skyhawks to Easton for their lone home game in that stretch next Saturday when it hosts LIU at 2 p.m.