5 things to know about the Monmouth Hawks

1. The start to the 2018-19 season for the Monmouth Hawks has not exactly gone to plan for Head Coach King Rice. After going 11-20 last season, the Hawks have lost their first seven games of this season. Not to put the cart before the horse here, but when you include the pending loss to Kentucky tonight, an 0-8 start has to be mentally dismantling for any team. It is hard to believe that Coach Rice is just two years removed from having Monmouth finish with a 27-7 record and a trip to the NIT in the 2015-16 season.

2. Part of the reason that Monmouth has struggled so much to start the season is that they just flat out cannot score the basketball at a high enough clip. The highest the Hawks…