{"id":158217,"date":"2026-02-17T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158217\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:30:12","slug":"fgcu-puts-home-win-streak-on-the-line-against-jacksonville-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158217\/","title":{"rendered":"FGCU puts home win streak on the line against Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville Dolphins<\/a> (10-17, 5-9 ASUN) at Florida Gulf Coast Eagles<\/a> (12-15, 6-8 ASUN)<\/p>\n

Fort Myers, Florida; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: FGCU hosts Jacksonville aiming to continue its four-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n

The Eagles have gone 9-6 in home games. FGCU averages 11.3 turnovers per game and is 7-4 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins are 5-9 against conference opponents. Jacksonville is 2-2 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n

FGCU is shooting 45.6% from the field this season, 1.0 percentage point lower than the 46.6% Jacksonville allows to opponents. Jacksonville has shot at a 45.0% rate from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points greater than the 44.5% 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: J.R. Konieczny<\/a> is scoring 15.6 points per game and averaging 6.4 rebounds for the Eagles. Jordan Ellerbee<\/a> is averaging 14.8 points and 3.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Hayden Wood<\/a> is averaging 10.1 points for the Dolphins. Donovan Rivers<\/a> is averaging 9.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Eagles: 5-5, averaging 74.4 points, 31.5 rebounds, 14.0 assists, 6.4 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Dolphins: 4-6, averaging 70.2 points, 29.5 rebounds, 9.7 assists, 6.4 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 71.9 points.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Dolphins (10-17, 5-9 ASUN) at Florida Gulf Coast Eagles (12-15, 6-8 ASUN) Fort Myers, Florida; Wednesday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8294,75833,70652,26228,75832,75831,116,20290,118,117,72560],"class_list":["post-158217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-college-basketball","tag-donovan-rivers","tag-event_preview","tag-florida-gulf-coast-eagles","tag-hayden-wood","tag-j-r-konieczny","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-dolphins","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jordan-ellerbee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158217","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=158217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158217\/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=158217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}