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FORT MYERS, Fla. | The No. 28 FGCU ladies’s basketball crew (13-2 total, 1-0 ASUN) was prominently featured in Sports Illustrated on Wednesday morning as SI’s Daily Cover.

Entitled ‘No. Midrange. Jumpers.’ How One Mid-Major Has Stayed Ahead of the Curve, the piece by Emma Baccellieri dives into how FGCU head ladies’s basketball coach Karl Smesko has been on the reducing fringe of the game — and the way Smesko and the Eagles have stayed there throughout his record-setting run on the helm of the Green & Blue.

FGCU, which has gained 5 straight video games, finally ends up a four-game homestand towards Jacksonville at 7 p.m. Thursday. The Eagles hit the street Saturday for a 6 p.m. sport at North Alabama.

FGCU has made probably the most 3-pointers within the nation, hitting 162 triples to date in 2022-23, and is first nationally with 10.8 per sport. The Green & Blue defends the arc as nicely, permitting opponents solely 4.1 3-pointers per sport. FGCU’s run to its 2021-22 nationwide rating was because of the Eagles’ continued dominance behind the 3-point arc. The Eagles have led the nation in made threes per sport the previous three years and in 4 of the final 5 seasons — with an NCAA single-season document complete 431 in 2017-18.

 

Entering this season, the Eagles had been chosen by each the coaches and the media to repeat as ASUN champions. FGCU is at the moment ranked No. 3 within the Collegeinsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 ballot. The Eagles completed with a program-best-ever No. 20 rating in 2021-22 and have 4 Top 25 finishes prior to now 5 seasons. Further, solely the Green & Blue and defending nationwide champion South Carolina have gained not less than 30 video games in 5 of the final eight campaigns.     

 

For full protection of FGCU ladies’s basketball, observe the Eagles on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook at @FGCU_WBB and on-line at www.FGCUAthletics.com. You also can signal as much as have information on FGCU ladies’s basketball and different applications delivered on to your inbox by visiting www.fgcuathletics.com/e-mail

 

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS, MINI PLANS AVAILABLE  

Tickets for the 2022-23 FGCU Basketball season are on sale now and might be bought by going surfing to www.FGCUTickets.com or calling 866-FGCU-TIX. Group tickets may also be bought for 10 or extra folks – making a memorable night for households, companies, or different organizations.  

 

COACH SMESKO   

FGCU head coach Karl Smesko maintains a document of 623-130 (.827) total in his profession, the third-highest profitable share amongst lively Division I coaches behind solely UConn’s Geno Auriemma and LSU’s Kim Mulkey. He has additionally led the Eagles to a 233-18 (.932) mark in ASUN regular-season play and a 30-2 (.938) document in ASUN event play. Over the earlier 10-plus seasons, he has guided FGCU to a 154-5 (.969) document in convention play with six undefeated seasons. The 12-time ASUN Coach of the Year has led this system to 12-straight 25-win seasons and 18 consecutive 20-win campaigns, together with 30-plus wins in 5 of the final eight years. On prime of all that, the Eagles are 562-103 (.845) all-time since Smesko began this system within the 2002-03 season, and the Green & Blue’s .845 all-time profitable share is the most effective in NCAA Division I ladies’s basketball historical past.

 

E.A.G.L.E. CAMPAIGN

IT TAKES A TEAM to attain our latest aim – a $10 million marketing campaign to handle student-athlete wants in continued tutorial success, life abilities, psychological well being, diet, and power and conditioning in addition to departmental wants in facility enlargement and enchancment in addition to mentoring and management coaching for coaches and workers. The title embodies our mission and the aim of the E.A.G.L.E. Campaign – Eagle Athletics Generating Lifetime Excellence. Join Our Team and pledge your reward in the present day to assist the Eagles of tomorrow!  

 

#FEEDFGCU

FGCU Athletics sponsors occasions in November and April to profit the FGCU Campus Food Pantry (https://www.fgcu.edu/adminservices/foodpantry) and the Harry Chapin Food Bank (www.harrychapinfoodbank.org), FGCU Athletics’ charities of selection. For extra data, together with the way to make a contribution, please go to https://www.fgcu.edu/adminservices/foodpantry and make the most of the hashtag #FeedFGCU to assist increase consciousness.  

 

ABOUT FGCU

FGCU groups have mixed to win an unbelievable 94 convention common season and event titles in simply 15-plus seasons on the Division I stage. Additionally, in simply eleven-plus seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have had a mixed 47 groups or people compete in NCAA championships. In 2022, the boys’s golf crew grew to become the primary program to earn an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament. Eight FGCU applications have earned a top-25 nationwide rating of their respective sport – together with ladies’s basketball (No. 20, 2021-22 and No. 25 in 2022-23) seashore volleyball (No. 20, 2022) and each males’s soccer (2018, 2019) and ladies’s soccer (2018) as 4 of the newest. In 2016-17, the Green & Blue posted a department-best sixth-place end within the DI-AAA Learfield Directors’ Cup and top-100 displaying nationally, forward of a number of Power-5 and FBS establishments. In 2018-19, the Eagles had an ASUN and state of Florida greatest seven groups earn the NCAA’s Public Recognition Award for his or her Academic Progress Rate of their sport. FGCU additionally collectively earned a document 3.66 GPA within the classroom within the fall 2022 semester and has outperformed the overall University undergraduate inhabitants for 27 consecutive semesters. The previous seven semesters (Fall 2019 – Fall 2022) noticed one other milestone reached as all 15 applications achieved a 3.0-or-higher cumulative crew GPA. The Eagles additionally served an all-time excessive 7,200 volunteer hours in 2017 – being acknowledged as one among two runners-up for the inaugural NACDA Community Service Award offered by the Fiesta Bowl.

 

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