Florida State University Athletics
Noles Finish Week at Boston College on Sunday
1/7/2023 6:24:04 PM | Women's Basketball
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Florida State Women’s Basketball finishes its week by battling Boston College on the road on Sunday at Noon at the Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill, Mass.
- TV: Fans can catch Sunday’s game on the ACC Network at Noon.
- Radio: The matchup can be heard locally on 96.5 FM and 1270 AM, and can be accessed anywhere on Seminoles Leanplayer.
- In-game updates: Fans can follow on the FSU Women’s Basketball Twitter Account (@fsuwbb).
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- Florida State (15-2, 4-0) and Boston College (12-5, 2-2) match up for the 21st time on Sunday afternoon. The Seminoles lead the all-time series, 18-2, and own an 8-0 road at Conte Forum. FSU has not visited Chestnut Hill since winning 91-71 on Jan. 17, 2019.
- The Seminoles rank fourth in the country in scoring offense at 88.2 points per game. Florida State is averaging 0.94 points per play, 79.3 possessions per 40 minutes and 110.6 points per 100 possessions.
- Florida State has already scored 90 or more points in eight of its 17 games played this season. Its season low is 75 vs. Georgia State.
- In Florida State’s 4-0 start to ACC play, it has out-scored its four opponents (Miami, No. 13 North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Clemson) by +21.5 points per game (90.5 to 69.0).
- Perhaps no one in the country has had a more decorated week than freshman guard Ta’Niya Latson. The Miami, Fla., native swept the ACC weekly awards on Monday for the third time this season, earned USBWA National Freshman of the Week for the second time on Wednesday afternoon and was named to the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 on Wednesday night.
- Latson owns 16 20-point games this season, including 14 consecutive heading into Sunday’s contest. Latson’s current streak is the second-longest by any NCAA Division I men’s and women’s freshman ever, only trailing the Atlanta Hawks’ Trae Young and his 18 straight games in 2017-18 when he was at Oklahoma.
- Graduate guard Jazmine Massengill is one of the nation’s most efficient players with the ball in her hands. Massengill owns a 2.71 assist/turnover ratio in ACC play, generating 19 assists to just seven turnovers in four games played (1.8 turnovers per game).
- Florida State is off to its best start in ACC play since beginning 6-0 in the 2008-09 season.
- Sophomore forward Makayla Timpson is blocking nearly eight percent (7.9) of her opponent’s 2-point field goal attempts. She leads the ACC with 2.2 blocks per game.
- In FSU’s four ACC games, it is shooting 86.9 percent (86-of-99) from the floor. FSU has gotten to the free throw line nearly 25 times per ACC game (24.8).
- Ta’Niya Latson has set the single-game FSU free throw percentage record in back-to-back games. Against Georgia Tech last Sunday, she originally set the record going 13-of-13. Last game vs. Clemson, she upped it to 15-of-15. She has a current made free throws streak of 34 attempts.
- Florida State scores 20.5 percent of its points at the free throw line this season.
- The Seminoles recorded 20 assists to just nine turnovers last game vs. Clemson, their best assist/turnover performance of the season.
- FSU’s 45.71 rebounds per game rank ninth nationally and first in the ACC.
- Florida State’s 88.2 points per game puts it on pace to bring the single-season record for scoring at FSU, which is 83.8 points by the 1990-91 team.
Against ACC opponents, FSU’s points per play is elevated to 1.13 while still holding the opposition to just 34.6 percent shooting (103-of-298). - Ta’Niya Latson leads the country with 122 free throws made. She is also out-scoring every freshman with her 25.5 points per game. The next closest freshman is Minnesota’s Mara Braun, who ranks 71st nationally at 17.1 points per game.
- Florida State has moved up fast in the NET rankings, owning the No. 15 slot heading into Sunday’s game vs. Boston College.
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