Florida Gulf Coast University women's basketball embarks on its final road trip of the regular season Thursday at Kennesaw State and Saturday at Queens University of Charlotte.

The Eagles tipoff at 7 p.m. against Kennesaw State and then at 2 p.m. up at Queens. Both games will be streamed on ESPN+. FGCU is 33-2 all-time when facing KSU, winning the last 27 meetings. The Eagles are 2-0 against Queens and have won 33 consecutive games against current ASUN members, the longest active conference win streak in the nation.

FGCU can clinch the Atlantic Sun Conference's regular season title and the No. 1 overall seed for the tournament this weekend with two wins and if both Stetson and Central Arkansas lose once this week.

If the scenario plays out in the Eagles' favor, FGCU will capture its seventh consecutive ASUN regular season title and 14th all-time under head coach Karl Smesko. FGCU is the only program in the history of the ASUN to win more than nine regular-season crowns. Florida International won nine before leaving the conference in 1998.

The Eagles (21-4, 11-0 ASUN) are winners of 14 straight, including six on the road. FGCU has won 12 or more conference games in every season since joining the ASUN in 2007-08. The Green and Blue has never finished lower than second in the final standings and has gone undefeated in conference play six times. Coach Smesko has guided the Eagles to 20 straight seasons with 20 or more wins.

Emani Jefferson was named a semifinalist for the 2024 Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Award on Wednesday. She is averaging a team-leading 17.1 points per game and has collected three ASUN Player of the Week awards this season, including four Newcomer of the Week distinctions. 

Jefferson has produced 20 or more points in six games this season and continues to heat up with her quick-step approach for the undefeated Eagles, with four such games in her last six outings. FGCU climbed up to No. 3 overall in the latest CollegeInsider.com Mid Major Top 25 poll.

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- Head coach Karl Smesko has built and engineered the program's historic ascension within the women's college basketball world with its #Raining3s attack, leading the nation in made threes per game the last four seasons. This season, FGCU is currently averaging 9.1 made threes per game, ranking 14th nationally in the category. FGCU holds the NCAA record for the most made threes in a single season, sinking 431 during the 2017-18 campaign.

- The Eagles climbed up to No. 4 overall in the latest CollegeInsider.com's Mid Major Top 25 Poll and have received votes in the Associated Press Poll twice this season after knocking off No. 18 North Carolina in the Gulf Coast Showcase - the seventh Top 25 win in the program's history. The Green and Blue has finished in the AP Top 25 in five out of the last six seasons. During the last four campaigns, FGCU is the only mid-major program with four straight AP Top 25 finishes.

- FGCU, South Carolina, Stanford and UConn are the only four Division I programs to record 30 or more wins in three of the last five seasons. The Eagles went 33-4 a season ago, winning their 13th ASUN regular season title and ninth ASUN Tournament Championship, along with capturing their fourth-ever NCAA Tournament First Round victory. FGCU is the winningest 12th seed in NCAA Tournament history.

- With an all-time win percentage of .845, the Green and Blue soared into the 2023-24 season as the winningest program in the history of women's college basketball. FGCU earned 10 of the 12 first-place votes in the 2023-24 ASUN Preseason Coaches Poll and 38 of the possible 40 first-place votes in the ASUN Preseason Media Poll.

- Smesko's career win percentage of .830 (664-136) has him positioned as the third-winningest active Division I head coach, just behind UConn's Geno Auriemma and LSU's Kim Mulkey. In 2021, FGCU shocked the LSU Tigers in Baton Rouge 88-74. Smesko was named to Her Hoops Stats' 2024 preseason watch list for the Kathy Delaney-Smith Mid-Major Coach of the Year Award.