North Florida Ospreys (6-19, 4-8 ASUN) at Florida Gulf Coast Eagles (10-15, 4-8 ASUN)<\/p>\n
Fort Myers, Florida; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: FGCU hosts North Florida after J.R. Konieczny scored 20 points in FGCU\u2019s 81-65 loss to the Bellarmine Knights.<\/p>\n
The Eagles are 7-6 on their home court. FGCU is fifth in the ASUN with 22.8 defensive rebounds per game led by Konieczny averaging 4.7.<\/p>\n
The Ospreys are 4-8 against conference opponents. North Florida is 2-1 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
FGCU averages 78.4 points per game, 12.3 fewer points than the 90.7 North Florida gives up. North Florida has shot at a 45.5% rate from the field this season, 1.1 percentage points above the 44.4% shooting opponents of FGCU have averaged.<\/p>\n
The matchup Wednesday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Konieczny is scoring 15.5 points per game and averaging 6.3 rebounds for the Eagles. Jordan Ellerbee is averaging 1.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kamrin Oriol is averaging 20.8 points and 4.5 assists for the Ospreys. Kent Jackson is averaging 18.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Eagles: 3-7, averaging 72.4 points, 31.1 rebounds, 14.2 assists, 6.5 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Ospreys: 4-6, averaging 85.7 points, 29.5 rebounds, 15.9 assists, 3.6 steals and 1.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 91.0 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Florida Ospreys (6-19, 4-8 ASUN) at Florida Gulf Coast Eagles (10-15, 4-8 ASUN) Fort Myers, Florida; Wednesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8294,111,54256,1882,28,116,118,117,72560,38687,2537,62424,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-150172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-college-sports","10":"tag-data-skrive","11":"tag-fl-state-wire","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","15":"tag-jacksonville-news","16":"tag-jordan-ellerbee","17":"tag-kent-jackson","18":"tag-mens-college-basketball","19":"tag-send-to-apple-news","20":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150172","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=150172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}