Owls to Square Off Against Lady Raiders

BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Florida Atlantic University women's basketball team (5-19, 1-12 in Conference USA) will play at Middle Tennessee (18-5, 10-3 in C-USA) tomorrow afternoon. FAU is looking for revenge against the Lady Raiders, who edged the team out late in Boca Raton last month. Tipoff is slated for 3 p.m. Eastern with the game being broadcast on CUSA.TV from the Murphy Center.

About the Owls

FAU is closing out its final airplane trip of the regular season with a Saturday matinee matchup at MT
Amber Gaston leads the Owls with 11.5 points per game and a .512 field goal percentage
Janeta Rozentale has a team's most 8.6 rebounds per game
Kynadi Kuykendoll leads the way with 2.8 assists per game (68 total)
FAU has four Owls averaging double digits in scoring (Gaston, Rita Pleskevich, Rozentale and Alexa Zaph)
In C-USA standings, the Owls are fourth in defensive rebounds per game (26.17) and fifth in free throw percentage (.728)
Jennifer Sullivan leads the Owls in her first season at the helm
Zaph earned a huge milestone of capturing 10 assists at Southern Miss (2/5/22), becoming the first player since 2017 to tally 10+ dimes in a game. She was also the first player since 2004 to shoot at least 10 free throws and be 100% from the line after going 11-for-11 from the charity stripe vs. WKU (2/10/22)

Last Time Out

The Owls fell to the Mean Green, 76-45, with the 31-point deficit representing their largest of the year
Pleskevich tallied 10 points on 5-for-10 shooting
Gaston registered double digits with 10 points off 5-for-9 shooting
Sofia Galeron extended her streak to consecutive games with a 3-pointer to 15 and Zaph has made 18 consecutive free throw shots after going 4-for-4 from the line on Thursday

Scouting MT

MT was projected to tie for third in a three-way knot with North Texas and UTEP in the C-USA Preseason Poll, as voted on by the league's head coaches. The Lady Raiders also earned two first-place votes
The Lady Raiders hold onto the No. 2 spot in the East Division with a 10-3 league mark, 18-5 overall
Kseniya Malashka leads the Lady Raiders with 13.2 points per game along with 5.6 boards per game
Courtney Whitson has a team's most 7.5 rebounds per game, while playing 38.2 minutes per game, which leads C-USA
Saar Dor leads the team with 75 assists, which averages out to 3.3 assists per game
MT leads the league in assist/turnover ratio (0.90) and 3-pointers made per game (9.13)

Series History vs. the Lady Raiders

MT has a huge advantage over FAU in the series, boasting a 28-1 advantage
The Owls hold a 22-game losing streak against the Lady Raiders, which dates back to 2009
The first game of the all-time series took place in 2004, and since 2007, both teams have faced one another every year as both Sun Belt and C-USA foes
FAU's lone win over MT came on Feb. 21, 2009 in a 73-70 feat at FAU Arena
The Owls have never beaten the Lady Raiders away from home, holding a 0-15 record at the Murphy Center
FAU has come very close to knocking off the Lady Raiders in the last two matchups. Just recently in mid-January, the Owls fell just short, losing 60-56 in Boca Raton. Both teams were tied at 53 with under a minute to play, but MT delivered a huge 3-pointer with 18 seconds left in the game, which showed to be the difference maker
In the Owls' previous game against MT, Galeron led the way with 14 points, 11 rebounds and five assists. Kuykendoll and Pleskevich followed with 10 points each

An Owl Win Means

The team will snap a six-game overall losing streak
FAU will win its first road game since Dec. 2, 2021, which will end an eight-game road skid
The program will win at the Murphy Center for the first time in school history
The Owls will snap a 22-game losing skid to the Lady Raiders
Sullivan will earn first road conference win as a head coach

Upcoming

FAU will be back at home against Old Dominion on Thursday, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. Tickets for the game can be purchased here or by calling 1-866-FAU-OWLS.

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Sofia Galeron

Amber Gaston

Kynadi Kuykendoll

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