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#DUNKCITY INFOGRAPHIC GAME NOTES 2013: SWEET 16 (only 15
seed ever) | 2014: NIT | 2015: CIT 2013: Atlantic Sun Tournament Champions | 2014: Atlantic Sun Regular Season Champions Contact: Jason MacBain | Email: jmacbain@fgcu.edu | Cell: 315.750.0236 | Office: 239.590.7061 | Twitter: @JaBain
at Ohio
L, 85-75
16 TEXAS WESLEYAN 21
YOUNGSTOWN ST.^
W, 85-62 W, 104-101 (3OT)
22 NORTH DAKOTA^
CIT 23 27
W, 73-60
BOWLING GREEN^
L, 82-77
at Florida
L, 70-50
29 AVE MARIA^
W, 91-34
DECEMBER
NIT2 6
at #18 Texas A&M at FIU
L, 75-65 W, 84-76 (OT)
13 MASSACHUSETTS
NIT19 NIT22
RV
W, 77-76
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE
L, 56-52
LOUISIANA TECH
28 vs. South Dakota!
L, 66-63 L, 89-81 (OT)
31 LA SALLE
W, 86-77
JANUARY 2
ECKERD
5
WEBBER INT’L
9
STETSON*
CIT 14 CIT 16 21
NJIT*
W, 68-57 W, 104-59 W, 82-53 W, 82-78 (OT)
USC UPSTATE*
W, 85-56
at Kennesaw State*
7 PM
23 at Lipscomb*
5 PM
27 JACKSONVILLE*
7 PM
NCAA 30
at North Florida*
7 PM
FEBRUARY 1
NCAA 6 CIT 11 CIT 13
at Jacksonville*
7 PM
NORTH FLORIDA*
7 PM
at USC Upstate*
7 PM
at NJIT*
4 PM
18 LIPSCOMB*
7 PM
20 KENNESAW STATE*
7 PM
25 at Stetson*
7 PM
MARCH ATLANTIC SUN CHAMPIONSHIP 1 Quarterfinals
TBA
3 Semifinals
TBA
6 Final 2 PM A-Sun Championship: Higher Seed, On Campus ^ Hilton Garden Inn FGCU Classic (Alico Arena) ! Sanford Pentagon (Sioux Falls, S.D.) * Atlantic Sun Conference Game
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82%
87%
FGCU easily leads the A-Sun with 41.7 rebounds per game. Kennesaw State, meanwhile, is last in the A-Sun in rebounding at 33.2 per game. The Eagles rank 6th in the nation in total rebounds with 793 and are 20th in the country in rebounds per game. Eleven of FGCU’s 12 wins this year have come when it has out-rebounded its opponent, and KSU is 1-12 when being out-rebounded.
41.7 33.2
REBOUNDS PER GAME
14
FGCU @ KENNESAW STATE Convocation Center (4,600) | Kennesaw, Ga. Video: ESPN3 | WatchESPN App Live Stats: StatBroadcast Hashtags: #FGCUvsKSU | #DunkCity | #ASunMBB Series History: FGCU Leads, 10-6 @FGCU_MBB @KSUOwlsMBB Series Note: FGCU Has Won 8 In A Row 12-7 | 3-0 HC: Joe Dooley (113-83) HC: Al Skinner (390-305) 5-14 | 1-2 ASSISTS REBOUNDS POINTS
NOVEMBER
% Of Totals From Non-Seniors
SCHEDULE / RESULTS
With a win, the Eagles will match a pair of seven-game winning streaks by the 2012-13 Sweet Sixteen club as the second-longest winning streak in D-I program history, bested only by a 10-game run in conference play last season.
W6
87%
Kennesaw State enters the game with the league’s lowest-scoring offense, averaging just 69.7 points per game for the year, while FGCU has the conference’s best defense, holding opponents to only 69.1 points per game. However, in the first three A-Sun games of the year, KSU is averaging 83.3 points per game, while FGCU’s defense has gotten even more stringent and is limiting foes to 62.3 points per game.
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REGGIE REID (G)
Fr. | 5-11 | 162 | Harlem, Ga. Leads FGCU with 76 assists Ranks 6th in the A-Sun with 4 assists per game
JULIAN DEBOSE (G)
R-Sr. | 6-4 | 197 | Washington, D.C. Team’s leading returning scorer 54 points shy of 1,000 for his career (446 @ Rice)
CHRISTIAN TERRELL (G)
So. | 6-5 | 184 | Jacksonville, Fla. Career-high 25 pts vs. South Dakota 261 points this year already; 110 all of last year
MARC-EDDY NORELIA (F)
R-Jr. | 6-8 | 218 | Orlando, Fla. Team-high 15.5 ppg, 8.7 rpg 7 double-doubles; T-D-I single-season record (Fieler, ‘13-14)
ANTRAVIOUS SIMMONS (F)
R-So. | 6-9 | 250 | Miami, Fla. Consecutive dbl-fig point games 1st career dbl-dbl vs. La Salle (17 & 10 - career highs)
1) Zach Johnson was named A-Sun Co-Newcomer of the Week on Monday after averaging a team-best 17 points and 4.5 assists per game last week. 2) FGCU and Stony Brook are the only schools in the nation that have both their men and women riding winning streaks of at least six games (FGCU women, 8). 3) The Eagles will be looking to tie their best start ever in the A-Sun at 4-0, set by the 2013-14 team. 4) FGCU will be playing its first true road game in 46 days. The Eagles played in Sioux Falls, about an hour from South Dakota’s campus, on Dec. 28. 5) The Eagles are coming off a 61.9-percent performance (13-21) from 3-point range versus USC Upstate, tied for the second-best performance vs. a D-I opponent.