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 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The No. 28 FGCU women's basketball team (21-3 overall, 9-1 ASUN Conference) scored 44 points in the second half Thursday afternoon en route to a 77-31 victory over Jacksonville at Swisher Gymnasium.
 
The Eagles have won three straight games, nine of their last 10, and seven of their last eight games on the road. FGCU remains atop the ASUN standings, as the only team with nine wins. The Dolphins fell to 9-11 overall and 3-7 in the ASUN.    
   
 Thursday's 46-point margin of victory was FGCU's fourth highest of the season – as the Eagles defeated Central Arkansas by 55 on Jan. 14.
 
Graduate guard Sha Carter (Southfield. Mich./Wylie E. Groves HS/Walsh) recorded her second double-double of the season – scoring 14 points and matching her season high with 11 rebounds to go with a game-high four assists.
 
Graduate guard Tishara Morehouse (Milwaukee, Wis./Rufus King HS/Nebraska CC) led all Eagles with 17 points, four assists and a game-high three steals. Thursday marks Morehouse's 14^th time leading the Eagles in scoring, and her 20^th double-digit game of the season.   
 
Redshirt sophomore Maddie Antenucci (Cincinnati, Ohio/Indian Hill HS) delivered 11 points and pulled down five rebounds. Redshirt junior guard Alyza Winston (Muskegon, Mich./Muskegon HS/Mississippi State) added 10 points.  
 
"We had a great defensive effort today," said FGCU head women's basketball coach Karl Smesko. "We communicated very well, and Sha did a great job on the boards."     
   
The Green & Blue started strong Thursday, rattling off an 11-5 run – with graduate guard Sophia Stiles (Malta, Mont./Malta HS/Montana) contributing four points in the flurry. The Dolphins responded with a 6-3 burst to close the gap to 14-11 to end the first quarter.
 
Morehouse opened the second quarter with a triple to touch off a 14-3 run to extend the Eagles lead to 28-14, and FGCU went into halftime with a 33-20 cushion.
 
Winston began the third quarter just as Morehouse started the second, nailing a 3-pointer to ignite a 14-5 run that included back-to-back Morehouse treys en route to a 47-25 advantage. The Eagles later rattled off eight unanswered points to end the period with a 53-25 lead.
 
FGCU's offensive barrage continued in the final 10 minutes, as the Green & Blue scored 24 points – with three Antenucci triples and six points from redshirt junior Uju Ezeudu (Reynoldsburg, Ohio/ Reynoldsburg HS/ Denver) to the Dolphins six to seal the victory.
 
Smesko played all 12 available players, with each Eagle earning at least four minutes of playing time and nine players scoring at least two points. Redshirt senior guard DeShari Graham led Jacksonville with 11 points and sophomore guard Jalisa Dunlap grabbed four rebounds. 
 
The Eagles remain in Duval County, taking on North Florida (6-13, 3-6) at 2 p.m. Saturday. Jacksonville hosts Stetson on Saturday. 
  
The Green & Blue have now hit 271 3-pointers, for an average of 11.3 treys per game – the highest total and per-game average in the country. FGCU has more than doubled their opponents' treys total, allowing only 98 this season. FGCU's run to its 2021-22 national ranking was due to the Eagles' continued dominance behind the 3-point arc. 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.     

Entering this season, the Eagles were selected by both the coaches and the media to repeat as ASUN champions. FGCU is currently ranked No. 4 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 631-131 (.828) 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 240-19 (.926) 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 166-6 (.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 570-104 (.845) all-time since Smesko started the program in the 2002-03 season, and the Green & Blue's .845 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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