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DELAND, Fla. – The No. 26 FGCU women's basketball team (24-3 overall, 12-1 ASUN Conference) scored 34 points in the second half Saturday afternoon en route to a 67-57 victory over Stetson at the J. Ollie Edmunds Center. The win completes a season sweep of the Hatters, as the Green & Blue delivered a 100-58 showing when Stetson visited Alico Arena on Feb. 8.
 
The Eagles have won six straight games, 16 of their last 17 games and nine of their last 10 road outings. As the only team with 12 ASUN wins, FGCU remains atop the conference standings – now 1½ games ahead of Liberty, Austin Peay and Lipscomb, which are all 10-2. The Green & Blue was the first team to clinch an ASUN Tournament berth.
 
The Hatters fell to 6-16 overall and 3-9 in the ASUN.
 
Graduate guard Tishara Morehouse (Milwaukee, Wis./Rufus King HS/Nebraska CC) led the Eagles with 15 points and three assists.
 
Graduate guard Sha Carter (Southfield. Mich./Wylie E. Groves HS/Walsh) recorded her third double-double of the season – scoring 12 points and pulling down 10 rebounds to go with two assists and a pair of steals. Graduate guard Sophia Stiles (Malta, Mont./Malta HS/Montana) went for 10 points and grabbed five rebounds.
 
"Very tough game today. Stetson played very well. Fortunately, we played a good fourth quarter.," said FGCU head women's basketball coach Karl Smesko. "Uju, Kae, Maddie, and Brylee really came through for us today."
 
Stetson held on with FGCU for the first four minutes, trailing 10-9 before the Eagles unleashed a 12-4 run to take a 22-13 advantage heading into the second quarter. The Hatters immediately responded outscoring the Eagles 17-11 to close the gap to 33-30 heading into halftime.
 
Stetson started the third quarter with a 15-9 advantage to take its first lead, 45-42, with 3:57 to go. But the Green & Blue responded with an 8-2 run to take a 50-47 edge into the fourth quarter.
 
The Eagles fired six unanswered points in the final 10 minutes to stretch the score to 56-47 before unleashing a 12-6 run that consisted of back-to-back Morehouse triples to never look back.
 
Smesko played nine players, with each player earning at least nine minutes of playing time and scoring at least two points. Senior guard Kiya Turner led Stetson with a game-high 18 points, and freshman forward Jaelyn Talley grabbed seven rebounds. 
 
The Eagles return home next week, first taking on Lipscomb (16-8, 10-2) at 7 p.m. Thursday and then hosting Austin Peay (15-7, 10-2) at 3 p.m. Saturday.
 
The Green & Blue have now hit 320-3-pointers, for an average of 11.9 treys per game – the highest total and per-game average in the country. The Eagles are 2.2 treys per game ahead of Wright State and Tulsa. FGCU has almost tripled their opponents' treys total, allowing only 113 this season. The Eagles have led the nation in made threes per game the past three years and in four of the last five seasons -- with an NCAA single-season record total 431 in 2017-18.   
 
FGCU is third in the country with a scoring margin of 21.9 points per game – with only South Carolina (33.9) and LSU (32.4) sporting higher scoring margins. The Eagles are currently eighth in the nation in assist/turnover ratio with 1.40.
 
Entering this season, the Eagles were selected by both the coaches and the media to repeat as ASUN champions. FGCU is currently ranked No. 3 in the Collegeinsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 poll. The Eagles finished with a program-best-ever No. 20 ranking in 2021-22 and have four Top 25 finishes in the past five seasons. Further, only the Green & Blue and defending national champion South Carolina have won at least 30 games in five of the last eight campaigns.     
   
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COACH SMESKO   
FGCU head coach Karl Smesko maintains a record of 634-131 (.829) overall in his career, the third-highest winning percentage among active Division I coaches behind only UConn's Geno Auriemma and LSU's Kim Mulkey. He has also led the Eagles to a 243-19 (.930) mark in ASUN regular-season play and a 30-2 (.938) record in ASUN tournament play. Over the previous 10-plus seasons, he has guided FGCU to a 169-6 (.965) record in conference play with six undefeated seasons. The 12-time ASUN Coach of the Year has led the program to 12-straight 25-win seasons and 18 consecutive 20-win campaigns, including 30-plus wins in five of the last eight years. On top of all that, the Eagles are 573-104 (.846) all-time since Smesko started the program in the 2002-03 season, and the Green & Blue's .846 all-time winning percentage is the best in NCAA Division I women's basketball history. 
 
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ABOUT FGCU
FGCU teams have combined to win an incredible 94 conference regular season and tournament titles in just 15-plus seasons at the Division I level. Additionally, in just 11-plus seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have had a combined 47 teams or individuals compete in NCAA championships. In 2022, the men's golf team became the first program to earn an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament. Eight FGCU programs have earned a top-25 national ranking in their respective sport - including women's basketball (No. 20, 2021-22 and No. 25 in 2022-23) beach volleyball (No. 20, 2022) and both men's soccer (2018, 2019) and women's soccer (2018) as four of the most recent. In 2016-17, the Green & 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 3.66 GPA in the classroom in the fall 2022 semester and has outperformed the general University undergraduate population for 27 consecutive semesters. The past seven semesters (Fall 2019 – Fall 2022) saw another milestone reached as all 15 programs achieved a 3.0-or-higher cumulative 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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