FORT MYERS, Fla. - The FGCU women's basketball program has announced another integral addition to next year's team with the signing of 5-3 guard Tishara "TK" Morehouse, who will join the Eagles as a JUCO transfer from Western Nebraska Community College, which is also the alma mater of associate head coach Chelsea Lyles. She will have two years of eligibility remaining.
 
"TK is explosive and dynamic," FGCU head coach Karl Smesko said. "She had an exceptional season at Western Nebraska and has proven she can hit the three and attack the basket. She scores a lot, but also shares the play. She's a playmaker."
 
The Eagles will look to Morehouse to provide a scoring punch next year after the Wisconsin native averaged 21 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game for Western Nebraska as a sophomore. En route to earning NJCAA Division I First Team All-American recognition, she reached double-figures in all but one game and registered 16 games with at least 20 points, including a trio of 30-point efforts - a career-high 38 points vs Utah State Eastern on Dec. 6, 34 points against Casper College on Nov. 19 and 31 against Sheridan College on Nov. 5. Nationally, she finished 10th among all players at her level in scoring.
 
As a freshman, Morehouse averaged 14.8 points, 3.2 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 2.7 steals per game. She had seven outings with 20-plus points, including a season-high 36 points vs Garden City on Nov. 3.
 
Overall, Morehouse shot 418-for-953 (.439) from the field in her career, including 136-for-364 (.374) from long distance. She connected on nearly 80 percent of her foul shots, as well, while producing 1,118 points, 267 rebounds, 244 assists and 155 steals in 63 career games.

Morehouse, who prepped at Rufus King High School in Milwaukee prior to signing with Western Nebraska and plans on majoring in psychology, joins Andrea Cecil, a graduate transfer from BGSU, as well as FGCU's three previous high school signees from November - Maddie Antenucci, a 5-10 guard from Indian Hills in Cincinnati, Ohio, Seneca Hackley, a 5-9 guard from Saint Mary's in Colorado Springs, Colo. and Tomia Johnson, a 5-6 point guard from Grandview in Colorado Springs, Colo.
 
The No. 24 Eagles will have to replace eight players, including four starters, prior to next year after finishing 30-3 overall in 2019-20. The squad captured the program's conference record-breaking 10th ASUN regular season championship behind a 15-1 record and a seventh tournament title.
 
Historically, the Green and Blue are on pace to become the NCAA's all-time Division I winning percentage leader at the end of the 2020-21 season. They have produced at least 25 wins in each of the past 10 seasons, including four 30-win campaigns over the past six seasons, becoming one of just five NCAA Division I programs that can boast that, joining South Carolina, Baylor, Notre Dame and UConn.
 
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FGCU teams have combined to win an incredible 82 conference regular season and tournament titles in just 12-plus seasons at the Division I level. Additionally, in just eight-plus seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have had a combined 36 teams or individuals compete in NCAA championships. Seven FGCU programs have earned a top-25 national ranking in their respective sport – including women's basketball (2019-20) and both men's soccer (2018, 2019) and women's soccer (2018) as three of the most recent. In 2016-17, the Green and Blue posted a department-best sixth-place finish in the DI-AAA Learfield Directors' Cup and top-100 showing nationally, ahead of several Power-5 and FBS institutions. In 2018-19, the Eagles had an ASUN and state of Florida best seven teams earn the NCAA's Public Recognition Award for their Academic Progress Rate in their sport. FGCU also collectively earned a record 3.35 GPA in the classroom in the spring 2018 semester and has outperformed the general University undergraduate population for twenty-one consecutive semesters. The 2019 Fall semester saw another milestone reached as all 15 programs achieved a 3.0-or-higher team GPA. The Eagles also served an all-time high 7,200 volunteer hours in 2017 – being recognized as one of two runners-up for the inaugural NACDA Community Service Award presented by the Fiesta Bowl.