FORT MYERS, Fla. – Florida Gulf Coast University women's basketball prepares for its final two games of the regular season, hosting North Florida Thursday and Jacksonville for senior night on Saturday.

Eagles fans, wear red Thursday for American Heart Association Night and Faculty & Staff MVP Night. Saturday is a blue out for senior day as FGCU Athletics commemorates the careers of the 2024 senior class. Both games are slated for a 7 p.m. tip at Alico Arena and will be streamed on ESPN+.

With a win Thursday, head coach Karl Smesko will have directed FGCU to 14 consecutive 25-plus win seasons, which only FGCU and UConn have achieved over that span. FGCU (24-4, 14-0 ASUN) has locked up the No. 1 overall seed in the 2024 Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament, which commences March 8 at campus sites. The Eagles continue to peak at the right time, climbing all the way up to No. 2 overall in the latest CollegeInsider.com Mid Major Top 25 poll.

The Eagles, winners of 17 straight, are one of only eight teams in the country to remain unblemished in their respective conference. In the program's history, FGCU has posted six undefeated seasons at home and in ASUN play, and the last time FGCU went undefeated in league play and at home occurred three seasons ago during the 2020-21 campaign.

The Eagles handed North Florida a 70-38 defeat in January and soared past Jacksonville 69-47 earlier this season. FGCU is 34-3 all-time when facing North Florida, winners of the last 13 meetings. Against Jacksonville, FGCU is 35-3 all-time, having won the last 16 contests. Brylee Bartram produced a team-leading 12 points against the Ospreys in January, while Emani Jefferson went off for 21 points against Jacksonville. Jacksonville (10-17, 6-8 ASUN) has clinched a spot in the ASUN Tournament, while North Florida (9-19, 3-13 ASUN) still has an opportunity to slide in as the 10th seed.

FGCU has won 36 consecutive games against current ASUN members, the longest conference win streak in the nation. The Green and Blue will aim to protect its 27-game home win streak as well, the nation's third-longest active streak.

Uju Ezeudu was named the ASUN Player of the Week on Monday. Jefferson also appeared in the weekly honors, collecting her fifth ASUN Newcomer of the Week Award this season.

Ezeudu turned in her sixth double-double performance of the year last Saturday to lead the Eagles past then-second-place Stetson, producing a team-leading 20 points and corralled 10 boards en route to her first career ASUN Player of the Week. Ezeudu is second in the ASUN in total rebounds (201) and third in rebounds per game (7.4).

Monday's honor marked Jefferson's fifth ASUN Newcomer of the Week recognition. Jefferson scored 14 points in Saturday's win and dished out five assists. Jefferson went a perfect 6-for-6 from the line and has produced double figures in 11 straight games with her quickstep attack, averaging a team-leading 16.5 points per game.

NOTES:
- 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. FGCU holds the NCAA record for the most made threes in a single season, sinking 431 during the 2017-18 campaign. This season, the Eagles are second nationally in 3-point attempts per game, averaging 30.1 attempts per game. Of those attempts, FGCU is knocking down 9.4 threes per contest, ranking eighth in the nation.

- The Eagles soared up to No. 2 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 entered 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 .831 (667-136) 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. Smekso has produced 20 straight 20-win seasons with the Green and Blue dating back to 2004-05, and reached win No. 600 at FGCU on January 31 of this yeat with a win over Bellarmine. Smesko has also guided the Eagles to 13 consecutive 25-plus win seasons, an accomplishment only achieved by UConn and FGCU.

- Redshirt junior Emani Jefferson was named a semifinalist for the 2024 Becky Hammon Mid Major Player of the Year Award. Kierstan Bell won the honor in 2021 and 2022. FGCU is the only program with three players named semifinalists in the award's short four-year history, as Jefferson now joins Bell and Keri Jewett-Giles.