@FGCU_MBB Game Notes vs. North Florida

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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*

W, 79-74

24 at Lipscomb* 27 JACKSONVILLE*

NCAA 30

L, 91-75 L, 78-69

at North Florida*

L, 82-76

FEBRUARY 1

NCAA 6 CIT 11 CIT 13

at Jacksonville* NORTH FLORIDA*

L, 83-80 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%

88%

TOP-3

Saturday will conclude a stretch of fourstraight games for 3rd-place FGCU against either 2nd-place Jacksonville or 1stplace North Florida. The Eagles lost at home to JU last Wednesday, 78-69, at UNF Saturday, 82-76, and at JU Monday, 83-80. The Eagles receive 60.3 percent of their total points from 2-point field goals, ranking as the 5th-highest percentage in the nation. Old Dominion leads the country at 61.9 percent. By comparison, UNF ranks 345th in the nation (out of 351 teams) in that category at 40.7 percent. Similarly, the Ospreys lead the county in total points from 3-point field goals at 44.6 percent, while the Eagles are 325th at 22.2 percent.

40.7

% POINTS FROM 2-PT FGs

14

FGCU vs. NORTH FLORIDA Alico Arena (4,333 + 300 SRO) | Fort Myers, FL ESPN3 | PxP: David Moulton | Analyst: J. Webb Horton Audio: TuneIn | App: College Sports NOW Live Stats: Presto Sports Hashtags: #FGCUvsUNF | #DunkCity | #ASunMBB Series History: FGCU Leads, 11-10 @FGCU_MBB Series Note: FGCU W6, UNF W7, FGCU W5, UNF W3 @OspreyMBB 13-11 | 4-4 HC: Joe Dooley (114-87) HC: Matthew Driscoll (140-184) 18-7 | 7-1 ASSISTS REBOUNDS POINTS

NOVEMBER

% Of Totals From Non-Seniors

SCHEDULE / RESULTS

60.3

FGCU scored 56 points in the paint last Saturday at UNF and followed it up with 50 points in the paint Monday at JU – just the third and fourth times, respectively, the Eagles have ever tallied at least 50 points in the paint in the D-I era (since 2007-08). FGCU out-scored UNF, 56-24 (+32 margin) and JU, 50-32 (+18 margin).

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ZACH JOHNSON (G)

R-Fr. | 6-2 | 195 | Miami, Fla. 2nd on FGCU with 16 ppg in A-Sun games Coming off a 25-point game at Jacksonville

JULIAN DEBOSE (G)

R-Sr. | 6-4 | 197 | Washington, D.C. Team’s leading returning scorer 13 points at UNF; 4 dbl-fig games in last 7 contests

CHRISTIAN TERRELL (G)

So. | 6-5 | 184 | Jacksonville, Fla. 2nd career dbl-dbl vs. JU (13 & 10) 313 points this year already; 110 all of last year

MARC-EDDY NORELIA (F)

R-Jr. | 6-8 | 218 | Orlando, Fla. Team-high 16.1 ppg, 8.7 rpg 8 double-doubles; D-I single-season record (9 all-time rcd.)

ANTRAVIOUS SIMMONS (F)

R-So. | 6-9 | 250 | Miami, Fla. Team’s 2nd-leading total rebounder 3-straight double-figure point games Jan. 14-21

1) Julian DeBose enters the game five points shy of 1,000 for his career. He would be the 7th player in program history to reach the milestone. 2) FGCU has not lost fivestraight games overall since 2010-11 – which is also the last time it dropped fourstraight A-Sun contests. 3) Marc-Eddy Norelia’s 16.1 point-per-game average is just behind Casey Wohlleb’s program Division-I single-season record of 16.5 in 2007-08. 4) Zach Johnson scored a game-high 25 points at Jacksonville and enters the game leading all A-Sun players in 3-point percentage in league games at .636 (14-22). 5) FGCU shot 56.7 percent from the floor and lost at JU Monday night, its best shooting percentage in a loss since a 61.-4-percent performance at TCU in 2011-12.


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