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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Nova Southeastern women's basketball team, now ranked No. 3 in the USA Today Coaches Poll, head out on the road to meet up with the Florida Tech Panthers, Wednesday evening at 5:30 p.m. in Melbourne, Fla.

The Sharks (14-0, 5-0 SSC) are now one of five undefeated DII women's teams, with last week's No. 2, Gannon, falling on Saturday to Edinboro. NSU is now just behind No. 1 Bentley and new No. 2, Emporia State. Spotless No. 4 Colorado Mesa is next, followed by Gannon, and then the final remaining team without a loss, No. 6 Harding.

NSU extended their program-record consecutive win streak with two tough in-conference victories last week. They held off both Barry (78-76) and No. 13 Rollins (63-60) after having gone 11 straight games in which they won by 13 or more.

Jasmine Wilkins (R-Jr., Miami) earned SSC Player of the Week after averaging 16.5 points and nine rebounds in the two wins. Jessica Russi (Sr., Lake Mary, Fla.) had 18 points, seven rebounds and seven assists against Barry. In the win over Rollins, Taylor Buie (So., Puyallup, Wash.) scored 14 to lead the Sharks, while Danielle Robinson (Jr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) had 10 to push past 1,000 for her career.


Florida Tech has won six of their last seven games, and three out of their last four SSC matchups. The only loss in that span came to Rollins on Jan. 8, 55-44. The Panthers feature the league's second-highest scorer and preseason All-American by Women's DII Hoops Bulletin, in Kayk Wilson.

The junior guard averages 18.7 points per game, and also ranks second in the conference in both steals (2.6) and 3-pointers made per game (2.6). Rita Acevedo is the most efficient point guard statistically, with an assist/turnover ratio of 2.3. She is tied for third in assists (4.5), is fourth in steals (1.8) and is fifth in free throw percentage (85.1).

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SHARK STATS

• Over her last six games, Wilkins is averaging 16.2 points and 9.3 rebounds per night. She now ranks 10th in the SSC in both categories (12.7 and 7.2, respectively), and her field goal percentage of 62.2 is second in the conference and fifth in the country.
• Buie trails just Tyler Hardy of Barry and FIT's Wilson in scoring at 16.5 per game. She leads the SSC is 3-pointers made per game (2.9) and is second in 3-point percentage (45.1). Both of those marks rank her 15th in DII.
• Richelle Carach (Sr., Naples, Fla.) would top the nation in field goal percentage, but falls short of the minimum qualification by four made shots. At 67.7 percent, she still ranks first in the conference. She is second on the team in scoring at 13.3 points, seventh in the SSC, and leads all shooters in the conference in free throw percentage (91.3, 10th in the nation).
• Russi's 8.9 assists per game is first in the SSC and second nationally. She is also third in the conference in steals (2.3), tied for third in assist/turnover ratio (1.9) and tied for fifth in blocks (0.9).
• Besides Wilkins, Buie and Carach, two more Sharks are in double digits in points: Robinson (13.0, tied for eighth in the SSC) and Amanda Burakoski (Sr., Brooklyn, N.Y.) at 10.4, which ranks her 19th.
• Burakoski also ranks among the top long-range shooters in the league, tying for third in percentage (42.0) and tying for fifth in makes (2.1).
• Here are the team categories in which the Sharks rank among the nation's top 10, all of which put them first in the SSC:
     o Assists – 20.9 (first in NCAA, first in SSC)
     o 3-pointers made – 9.8 (second in NCAA, first in SSC)
     o Scoring margin – +22.5 (third in NCAA, first in SSC)
     o Scoring offense – 86.4 (fourth in NCAA, first in SSC)
     o Field goal percentage – 48.7 (fourth in NCAA, first in SSC)
     o 3-point percentage – 38.4 (eighth in NCAA, first in SSC)
     o Assist/turnover ratio – 1.3 (ninth in NCAA, first in SSC)
• The team is also first in the conference in free throw percentage (74.4) and tied for first in 3-point percentage defense (38.2).

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