No. 23 Women’s Basketball Heads to Wake Forest

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – No. 23 Florida State Women’s Basketball faces Wake Forest on the road on Thursday at 6 p.m. at LJVM Coliseum.

TV: Thursday’s game at the Demon Deacons can be streamed on ACCNX.
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).

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Picked ninth in the ACC predicted order of finish, Florida State Women’s Basketball is looking to clinch a Top-4 seed in the upcoming ACC Tournament. Entering Thursday’s game at Wake Forest, FSU is tied for fourth in the league with Louisville and would be the No. 5 seed if the season ended today.
The Seminoles (22-7, 11-5) are looking to snap a two-game losing skid at Wake Forest, last getting a win in Winston-Salem on Jan. 23, 2020, in a 70-65 victory.
Florida State has shown a remarkable scoring jump from one season ago, improving its scoring by 17.0 points per game from 65.3 in 2021-22 to 82.3 points per game this season. FSU ranks sixth nationally in scoring offense, first in the ACC and has scored 70 or more points in 28 of 29 games this year.
Since the 2009-10 season, Ta’Niya Latson is just the sixth freshman to record 30 points or more in at least seven games. In nearly 25 percent of her games this season, she has dropped 30 or more against an opponent. The last freshman to record 30 or more points seven or more times was Caitlin Clark of Iowa, who had 12 games in 2020-21. The other freshmen in that group include Kennedy Carter (7), Kelsey Mitchell (7), Kevi Luper (8) and Elena Delle Donne (8).
Florida State defeated Wake Forest at home, 72-44, on Feb. 2 behind a 21-4 outburst in the second quarter. Senior Sara Bejedi had a +21 rating in the game because of her strong defense against the Demon Deacon primary scorers.
The Seminoles have built a strong post-season résumé, owning three AP Top 25 wins over Duke (70-57), North Carolina (78-71) and NC State (91-72), five wins against the NET Top 50 and 15 wins against the NET Top 100.
Florida State looks to move to 5-0 against the ACC’s schools from North Carolina this season if it can win on Thursday in Winston-Salem.
In her interim season as head coach in 2020-21, Brooke Wyckoff took an FSU team predicted eighth in the ACC to a No. 4 seed in the ACC Tournament. She is looking to do the same in what is her first season as the permanent head coach for a squad predicted ninth in the league.
Ta’Niya Latson is coming off a 31-point performance vs. Georgia Tech where she went 10-of-16. She has eight games this season where she has garnered 10 or more made field goals.
FSU has a shot at earning 13 ACC wins, which would be its most in a season since going 13-3 vs. the conference in 2016-17. That was the last time the Seminoles made a trip to the NCAA Elite Eight.
The Seminoles have clinched their ninth consecutive winning season in ACC play.
Florida State has finished strong each of its last two games, closing out a win over Syracuse with a game-ending 11-0 run, and defeating Georgia Tech on Sunday with a 7-0 finish.
Makayla Timpson has strong numbers on the road: 14.1 points, 9.4 rebounds, 63 percent from the floor (63-of-100) and 2.5 blocks per game.
The Seminoles lead the ACC in blocks per game (5.9), free throw attempts per game (22.7), free throws made per game (16.5), defensive rebounds per game (30.9), rebounds per game (43.7) and scoring offense (82.3).
In FSU’s win over Wake Forest on Feb. 2, the five-player combination of Latson, Massengill, Valenzuela, O’Brien and Myers gave FSU a spark by out-scoring the Demon Deacons, 9-0, in 2:04 played together.
Florida State has established a new single-season blocks record as a team, now at 172 this year. The previous record was 166 by the 2006-07 team.

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