Owls Return to Action at WKU

Friday, February 5

Bowling Green, Ky.

7 PM

Florida Atlantic

WKU

Photo by: JC Ridley/Owlpix.com

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BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Florida Atlantic University women's basketball team (3-7, 1-5 Conference USA) will play for the first time in over two weeks with a weekend road series at WKU (5-9, 4-4 C-USA). Friday and Saturday's games will tipoff at 7 p.m. Eastern, as FAU looks to get back in the winning column and break a seven-game road losing streak.

About the Owls

FAU will play its first two games after having to sit out the past two weeks due to COVID-19 and contact tracing protocols
Before the two weeks off, FAU split a series with FIU, recording a win on Friday, Jan. 15 (73-69) and a tough loss on Saturday, Jan. 16 (65-62)
FAU has started C-USA play with a 1-5 record and looks to recover from an 11-game losing streak vs. WKU
Head coach Jim Jabir is in his fourth season at the helm with his 2020-21 team being made up of one redshirt freshman, six sophomores, six juniors, one senior and one graduate student
Iggy Allen leads the team with 20.4 points, 11.0 rebounds and 2.7 steals per game
Rita Pleskevich and Janeta Rozentale also average double digits in scoring, putting up 10.7 and 10.3 points per game, respectively
Nikola Ozola leads the team with 3.3 assists per game and a 2.6 assist/turnover ratio
Rozentale averages 8.5 rebounds per game, while leading the Owls with 1.9 blocks per game

History Against the Lady Toppers

The Owls will take on the Lady Toppers for the 23rd and 24th time this weekend
FAU trails 20-2 in the all-time series with both victories coming at home in back-to-back meetings (Jan. 29, 2011 and Jan. 25, 2012) while the teams were in the Sun Belt Conference
The Owls played the Lady Toppers twice last season. FAU's last game vs. WKU was one of the Owls' four bonus play games, which resulted in a 69-56 loss. Juliette Gauthier led the Owls with a double-double (20 points and 11 rebounds)
FAU is on an 11-game losing streak vs. WKU and have never beaten the Lady Toppers on the road at E.A. Diddle Arena

Scouting WKU

The Lady Toppers are 5-9 (4-4 C-USA play) and are coming off a huge series win vs. Charlotte. The home wins included a triple overtime feat (100-99) and a 65-64 victory
WKU was chosen to finish fifth in C-USA after rounding out the league in third last year (27-7, 14-4 C-USA)
Raneem Elgedawy returned to the team in the second week of conference play, and leads the team with 21.5 points per game, 11.2 rebounds per game and 12 blocks after six games
Fatou Pouye is the next in line, averaging 11.1 points and 6.8 rebounds per game
Hope Sivori has a team-most 56 assists, while Meral Abdelgawad, who hit the team's buzzer beater in the Lady Toppers' triple overtime win, leads the team in steals (28)

Last Time Out

When the Owls last played in the middle of January, FAU fell to FIU in the second game of their series, 65-62. The Owls had a late fourth quarter lead, but were unable to hang on
Rozentale led the Owls with 17 points, while capturing her second double-double of the season with 10 boards. The forward also logged her second straight three-block game
Allen tallied her second consecutive double-double in the second FIU game, putting up 15 points and 17 rebounds with three steals
Pleskevich registered 10 points and three assists
Ozola contributed four assists for the fourth straight game

An Owl Win Means

The breakage of an 11-game losing streak vs. WKU
First ever road win at E.A. Diddle Arena
Second C-USA win of the season
A seven-game road losing streak being snapped

FIU Series Highlights

Upcoming

FAU will be back home to host UTSA on Friday, Feb. 12 (5 p.m.) and Saturday, Feb. 13 (2 p.m.) Tickets may be purchased here. All tickets for home games will be delivered digitally on individual mobile devices. Season tickets may be purchased through the ticket office by calling 1-800-FAU-OWLS (866-328-6957) or emailing tickets@fau.edu.

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