BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Florida Atlantic University women’s basketball team (5-23, 1-16 in Conference USA) will wrap up the regular season at FIU (13-15, 5-12 in C-USA) on Saturday afternoon. Tipoff is set for noon at Ocean Convocation Center in Miami with the game being broadcast on ESPN+. The C-USA Championship bracket will be released on Saturday night following the conclusion of all league games.
ABOUT THE OWLS
- FAU is set to play its final regular season game with a Saturday noon matchup at FIU. This marks the second time this week the two teams will square off in the home-and-home series
- The C-USA Championship bracket will be released on Saturday evening following the conclusion of all C-USA contests
- Janeta Rozentale leads the Owls with a near double-double of 11.6 points and 8.5 rebounds per game
- Kynadi Kuykendoll leads the way with 2.7 assists per game (76 total)
- FAU has four Owls averaging double digits in scoring (Rozentale, Rita Pleskevich, Amber Gaston and Alexa Zaph)
- Jennifer Sullivan leads the Owls in her first season at the helm
- FAU stands at No. 4 in free throw percentage (.739) in C-USA
LAST TIME OUT
- FAU was unable to earn the Senior Day win or final home game of the 2021-22 season, falling to FIU, 73-55
- Prior to the game, FAU honored the team’s two graduating seniors, Bre Beck and Pleskevich
- Rozentale led FAU with her fifth double-double of the season, tallying 18 points and 11 boards off the bench. Eleven of her 18 points came in the second half
- Pleskevich and Sofia Galeron registered nine points apiece
- Beck earned her first career start on her Senior Day
SCOUTING FIU
- FIU was chosen to finish seventh in the C-USA Preseason Poll, as voted on by the league’s head coaches
- The Panthers have a lock for the sixth seed in the East, set to play the Owls in the play-in game at the C-USA Championship next Tuesday (unofficially)
- Kyla Nelson leads the Panthers with 12.2 points per game and buries 2.4 3-pointers per game
- Emerald Ekpiteta pulls down a team’s most 6.8 rebounds per game
- Tanajah Hayes has a team’s most 84 assists, which averages out to 3.5 APG
SERIES HISTORY VS. PANTHERS
- FAU has a long history with FIU, trailing in the all-time series 35-15
- The first meeting between the two teams was on Jan. 28, 1985. FAU lost to FIU in the first 10 games, winning their first matchup of the series in 1996 in a 71-64 feat in Hammond, Louisiana
- FAU has had the edge in the past few outings, winning five of the last eight against the Panthers
- FAU is 9-16 at home, 5-19 away and 1-1 on a neutral site vs. the Panthers
- In the last matchup, which was last Wednesday in Boca Raton, FAU fell 73-55, as the Owls were unable to catch back up after FIU outscored FAU 24-10 in the second quarter. Rozentale led the way off the bench with 18 points and 11 rebounds
AN OWL WIN MEANS
- The team will snap a 10-game losing streak
- FAU will win its first road game since Dec. 2, 2021
- Head coach Jennifer Sullivan will earn her first road conference win as a head coach
- The program will win at Ocean Convocation Center for the first time since Feb. 2020
UPCOMING
The official C-USA Championship bracket will be announced on Saturday evening following the conclusion of all regular season league games.
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