No. 19 Women’s Hoops Battles 11th-Ranked Virginia Tech

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The 19th-ranked Florida State Women’s Basketball team travels for another key conference matchup, taking on 11th-ranked Virginia Tech in Cassell Coliseum on Sunday at 2 p.m.

TV: Sunday’s game against No. 11 Virginia Tech will air on the ACC Network.
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:

No. 19 Florida State Women’s Basketball searches for its fourth AP Top 25 win of the season against No. 11 Virginia Tech. FSU owns ranked wins this season on the road at No. 13 UNC (78-71), at home vs. No. 11 NC State (91-72) and at home vs. No. 16 Duke (70-57).
The Seminoles (20-6, 9-4) look to avoid consecutive losses for the first time this season. FSU’s response effort has been top-notch this season, averaging 81.2 points while going 5-0 in bounce-back games this year.
Florida State enters Sunday’s matchup against 11th-ranked Virginia Tech in a log jam for third place in the ACC, sitting in a four-way tie with the Hokies, Louisville and Miami with identical 9-4 conference records. Of the four teams, FSU owns the best win right now with its 70-57 win over first-place Duke.
Head Coach Brooke Wyckoff has become a strong candidate for ACC Coach of the Year. In her first season as the permanent head coach (she was an interim head coach in 2020-21), Wyckoff has guided FSU into a tie for third place after being predicted ninth in the ACC predicted order of finish.
With two more blocked shots, the Seminoles will surpass the 2006-07 team’s single-season record for most blocks in a season. FSU’s 165 total blocked shots are just one off the pace of the school record of 166. FSU ranks third nationally in total blocked shots, only trailing South Carolina (228) and Stanford (177).
Freshman guard Ta’Niya Latson ranks in the Top 10 nationally in field goals made (7th; 196), free throw attempts (7th; 172), free throws made (3rd; 149), points (5th; 575) and points per game (6th; 22.1).
Sunday’s game is an opportunity for FSU to get its third win against the NCAA’s current Top 16 for seeding, with Virginia Tech owning one of the four seeds along with North Carolina. Duke is a No. 2 seed in the first Top 16 reveal.
Valencia Myers will break the FSU career games played record at Virginia Tech. She is scheduled to play in her 139th game, breaking Brittany Brown’s mark of 138 during her four seasons from 2013-17.
FSU enters Sunday’s game rated 17th in the NET and owning five Top 50 NET wins.
Florida State has won four straight meetings at Cassell Coliseum, last falling in Blacksburg on Feb. 24, 2013.
A dynamic matchup will be post players Makayla Timpson (FSU) and Elizabeth Kitley (VT). Timpson (2.38) and Kitley (2.14) are the only two players in the league averaging 2.0 or more blocks per game.
A win over the Hokies would mark FSU’s eighth consecutive season of winning 10 or more games in ACC play.
Ta’Niya Latson is tied for the most ACC Rookie of the Week honors in a season with nine. She is tied with former ACC standouts Wake Forest’s Tracy Connor (1991-92) and Duke’s Elizabeth Williams (2011-12).
The Seminoles were the first team in the ACC to reach 20 overall wins last week vs. Wake Forest.
Brooke Wyckoff’s first ACC road win came two years ago in her Interim season, leading FSU to a 73-63 win at Virginia Tech on Dec. 31, 2020.
Florida State is one of eight current programs to make the Big Dance each of the last nine post-seasons, joining Baylor, Louisville, Maryland, South Carolina, Stanford, Tennessee and UConn.
Sunday’s game is the 42nd meeting between the Seminoles and Hokies, with FSU leading 30-11 overall.

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