FORT MYERS, Fla. - Tishara Morehouse poured in a game-high 23 points, Kierstan Bell made history, and Seneca Hackley had a season-best game off the bench as the FGCU women's basketball team (11-2, 4-0 ASUN) produced a 92-48 win over Lipscomb (5-7, 2-4) inside Alico Arena on Sunday.
 
"It was another good win for us," FGCU head coach Karl Smesko. "I thought we got off to a really good start in the first quarter. We had a number of people who contributed. They backed off TK, and she knocked down a bunch of threes. Bell was excellent as always. We got some really good production off the bench from Seneca and Aaliyah. It was just a good team win."
 
With the win, FGCU remains tied with Liberty atop the ASUN standings as the only two remaining unbeaten teams in the conference. As of now, the Eagles are scheduled to take next weekend off before going on the road to battle Stetson Feb. 6-7.
 
Morehouse (Milwaukee, Wis./Rufus King HS/Western Nebraska CC) registered a game-high 23 points on 8-for-17 shooting, which included a 7-for-14 performance from 3-point range. In fact, the junior guard finished just one long distance make shy of tying the program's all-time single-game record, and she did all her damage in 24 minutes over three quarters.
 
Bell (Alliance, Ohio/Canton McKinley HS/Ohio State), meanwhile, also played just three quarters before finishing with 16 points, 12 rebounds, three steals and two blocks as she tallied her second double-double of the weekend. Overall, the sophomore forward now has eight double-doubles, which ties FGCU's single-season record also held by Sarah Hansen and Whitney Knight, and Bell has only played in 10 games.
 

Whitney Knight	8	2015-16
Sarah Hansen	8	2012-13
Kierstan Bell	8	2020-21
Whitney Knight	6	2014-15
Sarah Hansen	6	2013-14
Destiny Washington	5	2018-19
Ty Adderly	5	2017-18
Sarah Hansen	5	2011-12

 
Hackley (Colorado Springs, Colo./Saint Mary's) came off the bench for a season-high 15 points along with four rebounds and two blocks. She finished 5-for-7 from the field, including 3-for-4 from long distance, as the freshman guard tallied her first career double-digit scoring game. In fact, she is now averaging just over six points per game over her past six contests after tallying just nine total points in her first seven games.
 
Aaliyah Stanley also came off the bench to record 14 points in 18 minutes on 4-for-8 shooting from 3-point range. In fact, the Eagles made a season-high 18 3-pointers on 40 attempts as six different players made at least one. On top of that, FGCU had just nine turnovers and totaled just 13 in the two-game series sweep of Lipscomb this weekend.
 
While she didn't score, Alyssa Blair (Sun Prairie, Wis./Sun Prairie HS) made her 15th career start to become just the 16th player in the program's Division I era to compete in at least 100 games, and she started her career as a walk-on. She finished with two steals, one rebound and one assist on Sunday.
 
With the victory, FGCU produced its 17th all-time winning streak of at least 10 games, including the 13th in the program's Division I era.
 
Division I Era Winning Streaks
(2007-present)
 

26	12/6/14 to 3/21/15
21	12/29/11 to 3/3/12
21	12/28/12 to 3/8/13
21	12/20/15 to 3/31/16
19	1/5/19 to 3/17/19
17	1/10/09 to 3/19/09
16	12/22/19 to 2/29/20
14	11/12/10 to 1/17/11
12	12/20/16 to 2/2/17
12	2/6/14 to 3/16/14
11	2/3/18 to 3/17/18
10	12/20/17 to 1/27/18
10	11/29/20 to present

 
One day after recording the largest blowout in program history against a Division I opponent, FGCU recorded another top 20 performance with its 44-point victory on Sunday against Lipscomb, which has been the victim in seven of those.
 

1/23/21	54	vs Lipscomb
2/16/13	51	at Lipscomb
12/4/10	51	at Jacksonville
3/7/18	50	vs Lipscomb
1/23/17	50	vs USC Upstate
2/5/09	49	at USC Upstate
2/13/17	48	vs Lipscomb
11/18/14	48	vs Florida International
1/2/12	48	at Mercer
3/5/11	48	vs Longwood
11/15/16	47	vs Florida International
12/30/11	47	vs Alcorn State
11/5/19	46	vs Florida International
2/12/18	46	at NJIT
12/14/14	45	at Bethune-Cookman
1/24/21	44	vs Lipscomb
2/10/18	44	at USC Upstate
1/25/20	43	vs NJIT
2/9/12	43	vs Lipscomb
1/29/09	43	vs Lipscomb

 
Notes
Stanley (Boynton Beach, Fla./Oxbridge Academy/Eastern Michigan) not only tied her season-high in scoring but notched her eighth game with at least 10 points on the season and pushed her scoring average to 10.1 this year.
 
Tyra Cox (Orlando, Fla./Lake Highland Prep/William & Mary) had a game-high six assists in her 23 minutes while adding four points.
 
Jordan Peete scored a team-high 15 points for Lipscomb, who had only one player reach double-figures.
 
FGCU is now 30-0 all-time against Lipscomb, including an 18-0 record inside Alico Arena.

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FGCU teams have combined to win an incredible 82 conference regular season and tournament titles in just 13 seasons at the Division I level. Additionally, in just nine seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have had a combined 38 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 (No. 24, 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 3.46 GPA in the classroom in the spring 2020 semester and has outperformed the general University undergraduate population for 22 consecutive semesters. The 2019 Fall and 2020 Spring semesters each 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.
 
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