Sad that the ladies are not a very good team this year - disappointing for us and them!

Florida Atlantic University women’s basketball (4-14, 0-7 C-USA) suffered an 87-69 loss to Middle Tennessee (11-7, 6-1 C-USA) on Saturday afternoon despite career performances from freshmen Alexis Shannon and Katelyn O’Reilly.

Shannon had a career-best 17 points on 5-of-9 shooting, which includes 3-of-4 from the perimeter and a perfect 4-for-4 from the free throw line. The freshman guard added three rebounds and one steal.

O’Reilly broke her career high with 13 points on 50 percent shooting while coming away with five rebounds, one assist and one steal.

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18 points, Ouch!

Get it together and get going Lady Owls!

The Owls took a 65-60 loss to FIU in the team’s rematch at FAU Arena on Thursday night.

Back-to-back baskets from Shannon put FAU up by six at 8:01 in the third quarter.

The Owls went 4-for-4 as Julia Jenike picked up four at the free throw line to set a new personal best in points and Shannon tacked on two more to give FAU its biggest lead of the game, 40-30, with 5:36 left to play.

FIU (5-14, 3-5 C-USA) proceeded to go on a 6-0 run over the next 1:50 as FAU was scoreless for 2:31 and committed three turnovers. In the final three minutes, Kency racked up six points for the Owls and surpassed her personal best in rebounds.

FAU capitalized on FIU’s five fouls going 8-for-8 from the free throw line and took 10 rebounds to the Panthers’ four in the quarter.

Jenike made her eighth consecutive start, and it was productive for the freshman who put up a career-high 14 points. The guard shot 2-for-5 from beyond the arc and a perfect 6-for-6 from the free throw line adding three rebounds, two assists and one steal.

FAU  (4-15, 0-8 C-USA) has now lost nine in a row and 13 of their last 14 contests. They will have a week off before continuing thier three game home stand against Charlotte next Thursday at 7:00 PM in The Burrow.

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FAU women’s basketball (4-16, 0-9 C-USA) took Charlotte (16-5, 8-2 C-USA) down to the wire on Thursday night as they dropped a 72-66 decision after nearly matching the Niners in shooting percentage and rebounds in the 40 minutes of action.

“I think you just have to keep working and getting better and better in practice every day. I thought there were some things we did much better than in any other game all season,” said Coach Kellie Lewis-Jay.

Ra’Kyra Gabriel had a career-best 13 points to go along with her nine rebounds. The sophomore forward went 4-for-5 in the third quarter alone. Sasha Cedeno had a team-best 15 points, tying her career high in threes made and attempted as she went 5-for-10 from beyond the arc.

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Old Dominion (12-10, 7-4 C-USA) outscored FAU women's basketball 51-25 in the second half en route to a 93-73 decision on Saturday.

After giving up an eight point advantage early in the third quarter, the Owls' play for the final 19:00 drew criticism from Coach Kellie Lewis-Jay afterwards.

 “We completely went away from the game plan (in the second half). For everything that we did in the first half, we negated it in the second half and completely came out unfocused and unready to play,” said Lewis-Jay.

ODU also outpaced Florida Atlantic (4-17, 0-10 C-USA) 61-44 off the glass and held a 14-7 advantage in assists.

Sahsa Cedeno paced FAU's offense with a team high 20 points, but the Owls could not contain Jennie Simms who poured in a game best 41 points for Old Dominion.

FAU will hit the road again to play North Texas on Thursday at 8:00 PM before heading to Rice on Saturday for a 3:00 PM tip-off.

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The FAU women's team lost 79-57 to North Texas tonight in Denton.

Alexis Shannon posted a team-high 11 points and five boards.

Now at 0-11 in C-USA play, the Owls will have to punch in wins from here out while likely hoping for other's losses to make the league tournament.

Five of their remaining seven games come against the conference's top eight teams.

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The women’s basketball team (4-19, 0-12 C-USA) was overwhelmed by Rice (14-9, 5-7 C-USA) 89-55 on Saturday afternoon at Tudor Fieldhouse.

FAU attempted a comeback in the fourth quarter as the Owls went on a 10-2 run in the first five minutes led by Julia Jenike and Katelyn O’Reilly. FAU also held Rice scoreless from 8:29 until 4:35. After that, FAU made six of their last eight with six points coming from O’Reilly and four from Alexis Shannon. During that time, five Rice players combined for 14 of the team’s 16 points of the quarter to seal the victory.   

FAU will be back at The Burrow to face LA Tech on Thursday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. followed by Southern Miss on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 5 p.m.

The Owls losing streak grew to 14 straight in a 76-52 home loss to Louisiana Tech on Thursday night.

FAU (4-20, 0-13) shot a productive 42% from behind the arc, but lost the rebounding battle as the Lady Techsters cashed in for a 17 attempt advantage in total shots.

That paid dividends given a 45% success rate from the floor for the night which was highlighted by a 48-12 advantage in the paint.

Julia Jenike posted a 4-of-4 showing from downtown and led Florida Atlantic with 19 points. Katelyn O'Reilly added 11 points and five rebounds.

Trailing just 45-42 with 1:38 to go in the third, the Owls defense couldn't get stops in the final period as La Tech produced multiple double digit runs down the stretch en route to the win.

FAU will wrap up their two game home stand against Southern Miss on Saturday at 5 p.m.

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Florida Atlantic University women’s basketball (4-21, 0-14 C-USA) had three players score in double figures but were overcome by Southern Miss’ 36-point fourth quarter and dropped the decision 82-67 on Saturday night at FAU Arena.

Julia Jenike was the team’s top scorer for the second consecutive game as she came away with 16 points including two baskets from beyond the arc.

FAU was outrebounded by the Lady Eagles (18-9, 10-5 C-USA) 50-33 but won the turnover battle committing just 13 to USM’s 16 and taking 17 points off takeaways while giving up only nine.

Southern Miss had four players in double-digits led by Dinkins with 28 points and eight rebounds in 37 minutes.

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