{"id":137451,"date":"2026-01-30T10:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/137451\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:11:14","slug":"barno-and-the-florida-gulf-coast-eagles-take-on-conference-foe-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/137451\/","title":{"rendered":"Barno and the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles take on conference foe Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/fgcu-eagles-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Gulf Coast Eagles<\/a> (9-13, 3-6 ASUN) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/jacksonville-dolphins-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville Dolphins<\/a> (9-13, 4-5 ASUN)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Jacksonville, Florida; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Jacksonville takes on FGCU in a matchup of ASUN teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Dolphins are 6-2 on their home court. Jacksonville has a 2-2 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Eagles are 3-6 against conference opponents. FGCU has a 0-3 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Jacksonville scores 73.2 points per game, 6.0 fewer points than the 79.2 FGCU gives up. FGCU has shot at a 45.4% rate from the field this season, 0.9 percentage points less than the 46.3% shooting opponents of Jacksonville have averaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Dolphins and Eagles meet Saturday for the first time in ASUN play this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/hayden-wood-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hayden Wood<\/a> is averaging 10 points for the Dolphins. Chris Lockett Jr. is averaging 10.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/rory-stewart-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rory Stewart<\/a> averages 2.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Eagles, scoring 8.9 points while shooting 34.3% from beyond the arc. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/isaiah-malone-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Malone<\/a> is shooting 63.3% and averaging 11.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Dolphins: 4-6, averaging 68.5 points, 29.3 rebounds, 11.2 assists, 7.0 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.2 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Eagles: 4-6, averaging 75.6 points, 32.8 rebounds, 14.7 assists, 6.3 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.9 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Gulf Coast Eagles (9-13, 3-6 ASUN) at Jacksonville Dolphins (9-13, 4-5 ASUN) Jacksonville, Florida; Saturday, 3 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-137451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}