Florida State University Athletics
Thursday, January 11
6PM
Florida State
vs
University of North Carolina
No. 21 Women's Basketball Hosts No. 20 UNC
1/10/2024 4:02:00 PM | Women's Basketball
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Seminoles.com) - No. 21 Florida State (12-4, 3-1) hosts 20th-ranked North Carolina (11-4, 3-0) in a Top 25 matchup at the Tucker Center on Thursday night at 6 p.m. It begins a stretch of back-to-back ranked matchups at the Tucker Center, as No. 11 Virginia Tech visits on Sunday.
The first 100 students to Thursday's game receive a free Fear The Spear shirt.
FSU has not played in consecutive ranked matchups at the Tucker Center in seven years, last doing it on Jan. 8-12, 2017, against No. 13 Duke and No. 9 Louisville while the Seminoles were also ranked in those games.
Sophomore guard Ta'Niya Latson trails only Iowa's Caitlin Clark among players over the last decade with the most 30-point games through their first 50 games played. Latson has totaled 11 30-point games in her first 46 games played at FSU, a total that puts her ahead of Ohio State legend Kelsey Mitchell (10) and NCAA scoring leader Kelsey Plum (10). Clark had 18 30-point games through 50 games.
Latson owns 11 career 30-point games already, tying all-time scorer Sue Galkantas for the most in program history. She has a chance to break the program record on Thursday vs. the Tar Heels.
Head coach Brooke Wyckoff owns an 8-3 record against the four North Carolina schools in the ACC, which includes her interim head coaching season in the 2020-21 year. Last year, the Seminoles were an undefeated 5-0 in the regular season against North Carolina (1-0), NC State (1-0), Duke (1-0) and Wake Forest (2-0), but did fall to the Demon Deacons in the 2023 ACC Tournament.
The Seminoles are looking for a 4-1 start to ACC play for the second consecutive year.
Junior guard O'Mariah Gordon is fully healthy this season and has taken an enormous leap. Through her first 16 games last year, she was averaging 8.4 points on 42 percent shooting in 18.4 minutes per game. This year, Gordon is averaging 13.7 points on 42.6 percent shooting in 28.9 minutes per game, and owns the nation's 20th-best assist/turnover ratio at 2.87 (66 assists, 23 turnovers).
The first 100 students to Thursday's game receive a free Fear The Spear shirt.
The Tucker Center hasn't hosted consecutive Top 25 matchups in women's basketball in SEVEN years!
— FSU Women's Basketball (@fsuwbb) January 9, 2024
That all changes this week ??#NoleFAM pic.twitter.com/HoGQOVGds8
FSU has not played in consecutive ranked matchups at the Tucker Center in seven years, last doing it on Jan. 8-12, 2017, against No. 13 Duke and No. 9 Louisville while the Seminoles were also ranked in those games.
Sophomore guard Ta'Niya Latson trails only Iowa's Caitlin Clark among players over the last decade with the most 30-point games through their first 50 games played. Latson has totaled 11 30-point games in her first 46 games played at FSU, a total that puts her ahead of Ohio State legend Kelsey Mitchell (10) and NCAA scoring leader Kelsey Plum (10). Clark had 18 30-point games through 50 games.
Latson is just 25 points away from being the fastest Seminole ever to 1,000 career points if she can do it in Thursday's game against UNC. FSU all-time leading scorer Sue Galkantas crossed the 1,000-point mark in her 48th game played at FSU in the 1981-82 season. Latson plays her 47th game on Thursday with 975 career points.Chipping away in Week 10 #NoleFAM pic.twitter.com/KYne5DOsKi
— FSU Women's Basketball (@fsuwbb) January 8, 2024
Latson owns 11 career 30-point games already, tying all-time scorer Sue Galkantas for the most in program history. She has a chance to break the program record on Thursday vs. the Tar Heels.
Head coach Brooke Wyckoff owns an 8-3 record against the four North Carolina schools in the ACC, which includes her interim head coaching season in the 2020-21 year. Last year, the Seminoles were an undefeated 5-0 in the regular season against North Carolina (1-0), NC State (1-0), Duke (1-0) and Wake Forest (2-0), but did fall to the Demon Deacons in the 2023 ACC Tournament.
The Seminoles are looking for a 4-1 start to ACC play for the second consecutive year.
Junior guard O'Mariah Gordon is fully healthy this season and has taken an enormous leap. Through her first 16 games last year, she was averaging 8.4 points on 42 percent shooting in 18.4 minutes per game. This year, Gordon is averaging 13.7 points on 42.6 percent shooting in 28.9 minutes per game, and owns the nation's 20th-best assist/turnover ratio at 2.87 (66 assists, 23 turnovers).
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