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FORT MYERS, Fla. – The No. 26 FGCU women's basketball team (22-3 overall, 10-1 ASUN Conference) returns home Wednesday to host Stetson (11-13, 5-6) at Alico Arena. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m., with the action available to view on ESPN+.
      
FGCU has won 18 of its last 20 games – including a 106-51 victory Saturday afternoon at North Florida that consisted of a season-high 22 3-pointers, the most in a single game in the nation this season. The victory clinched a berth in the 2023 ASUN Tournament, making the Green & Blue the first team to lock up a spot in the postseason.
 
The Eagles lead the ASUN standings by a full game over Austin Peay, Liberty and Lipscomb – which are each 9-2 in conference play.
    
The Hatters are coming off 57-48 victory at Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon. Freshman forward Jaelyn Talley scored a team-high 18 points and pulled down six rebounds.
 
Senior guard Jamiya Turner leads Stetson with 12.3 points per game, and senior guard Kiya Turner is the Hatters' top rebounder at 5.1 rebounds per outing.
 
Wednesday's game will be the 37^th meeting between the Eagles and the Hatters, with FGCU leading the series 31-5. The Green & Blue recorded an 82-67 victory over Stetson on March 9, 2022, during the ASUN Tournament semifinals at Alico Arena for their last matchup.
   
FGCU's victory over the Ospreys on Saturday was the 10th time out of 22 wins this season that the Green & Blue scored 85 or more points – and its first time eclipsing 100 points in 2022-23. The 106 points was just three shy of the single-game school record.
  
Graduate guard Sha Carter (Southfield. Mich./Wylie E. Groves HS/Walsh) led the team with a game-high 23 points and grabbed a game-high eight rebounds to go with two assists – her third time scoring 20 or more points and her 16^th double-digit game of the season.
 
Redshirt junior guard Brylee Bartram (Tampa, Fla/ Seffner Christian Academy/ Florida/ Vanderbilt) tied her season-best with 21 points (Ave Maria, Dec. 4) by draining seven triples – which was also just one shy of FGCU's single-game record. Bartram also pulled down two boards and chipped in three assists in her first career FGCU start.
 
Graduate guard Tishara Morehouse (Milwaukee, Wis./Rufus King HS/Nebraska CC) scored 19 points and dealt a career-high 10 assists for her first career double-double. Saturday marked Morehouse's 21st double-digit game of the season. Redshirt junior guard Alyza Winston (Muskegon, Mich./Muskegon HS/Mississippi State) added 10 points, grabbed two boards and chipped in two assists.
 
Morehouse leads the Eagles this season with 16.4 points per game, which ranks second in the ASUN. Winston adds 13.7 points per outing, and Carter adds 12.1 points per game.
   
Carter leads FGCU in rebounds with 5.3 per game. Graduate guard Emma List (Colorado Springs, Colo./Discovery Canyon Campus/Albany) leads the team with 107 assists, and Morehouse is close behind with 102. Morehouse also leads the Green & Blue with 52 3-pointers, with Winston close behind with 44 triples.

Who's Your Why Night: FGCU WBB will honor those in our community affected by the scourge of Cancer Wednesday night. A moment of silence will take place pre-games with fans encouraged to recognize loved ones while standing together to honor, who is their why.

Pink merch will be on sale in the lobby all night, those who buy or donate will be entered to win gift cards, with winners announced throughout the night! Donations will go to the American Cancer Society.

After Wednesday's game, the Eagles will head to Stetson for a 1 p.m. Saturday.

The Green & Blue have now hit 293 3-pointers, for an average of 11.7 treys per game – the highest total and per-game average in the country. FGCU has nearly tripled their opponents' treys total, allowing only 104 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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 INDIVIDUAL TICKETS, MINI PLANS AVAILABLE  
Tickets for the 2022-23 FGCU Basketball season are on sale now and can be purchased by going online to www.FGCUTickets.com or calling 866-FGCU-TIX. Group tickets can also be purchased for 10 or more people – making a memorable evening for families, businesses, or other organizations.  
 
COACH SMESKO   
FGCU head coach Karl Smesko maintains a record of 632-131 (.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 167-6 (.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 571-104 (.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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#FEEDFGCU
FGCU Athletics sponsors events in November and April to benefit the FGCU Campus Food Pantry (https://www.fgcu.edu/adminservices/foodpantry) and the Harry Chapin Food Bank (www.harrychapinfoodbank.org), FGCU Athletics' charities of choice. For more information, including how to make a contribution, please visit https://www.fgcu.edu/adminservices/foodpantry and utilize the hashtag #FeedFGCU to help raise awareness.  
 
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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