FSU sports information:
No. 23 Florida State Women’s Basketball plays against Duke for the 54th time in series history on Thursday night at 6 p.m. on the ACC Network. The Seminoles have won seven of the last nine meetings against the Blue Devils since 2015.
Thursday’s matchup pits the ACC’s second-highest scoring offense in Florida State (83.5 ppg) against one of the league’s stingiest defenses in Duke (59.6 points allowed), which is one of six ACC teams allowing under 60 points per game.
The league’s single-most influential shot blocker has been FSU junior forward Makayla Timpson, who leads the conference with 55 blocked shots and sits 18 blocks ahead of the next closest player. Collectively, Duke leads the conference with 6.8 blocks per game, which ranks second in the country.
Sophomore Ta’Niya Latson earned another honor on Tuesday, being named an Ann Meyers Drysdale Shooting Guard Top 10 Finalist. Latsonwas a finalist for the award last season. In ESPN’s latest Top 25 women’s college basketball player rankings on Dec. 21, Latson was rated15th overall - before she began conference play with three consecutive 30-points games vs. Georgia Tech, Wake Forest and NC State.
Junior guard O’Mariah Gordon has enjoyed an outstanding junior year after an injury-riddled sophomore season. The Bradenton, Fla., nativehas a turnover percentage of just 10.2 percent - meaning the percentage of plays she’s involved in where a turnover is committed. As anAll-ACC Freshman, Gordon’s turnover percentage was 23.4 percent, and was 17.5 percent as a sophomore.
No. 23 Florida State Women’s Basketball plays against Duke for the 54th time in series history on Thursday night at 6 p.m. on the ACC Network. The Seminoles have won seven of the last nine meetings against the Blue Devils since 2015.
Thursday’s matchup pits the ACC’s second-highest scoring offense in Florida State (83.5 ppg) against one of the league’s stingiest defenses in Duke (59.6 points allowed), which is one of six ACC teams allowing under 60 points per game.
The league’s single-most influential shot blocker has been FSU junior forward Makayla Timpson, who leads the conference with 55 blocked shots and sits 18 blocks ahead of the next closest player. Collectively, Duke leads the conference with 6.8 blocks per game, which ranks second in the country.
Sophomore Ta’Niya Latson earned another honor on Tuesday, being named an Ann Meyers Drysdale Shooting Guard Top 10 Finalist. Latsonwas a finalist for the award last season. In ESPN’s latest Top 25 women’s college basketball player rankings on Dec. 21, Latson was rated15th overall - before she began conference play with three consecutive 30-points games vs. Georgia Tech, Wake Forest and NC State.
Junior guard O’Mariah Gordon has enjoyed an outstanding junior year after an injury-riddled sophomore season. The Bradenton, Fla., nativehas a turnover percentage of just 10.2 percent - meaning the percentage of plays she’s involved in where a turnover is committed. As anAll-ACC Freshman, Gordon’s turnover percentage was 23.4 percent, and was 17.5 percent as a sophomore.
