OPENING TIP
Score: North Florida 8-9, FGCU 74
Records: North Florida (10-8, 3-0 ASUN) | FGCU (4-14, 1-2 ASUN)
Location: UNF Arena (Jacksonville, Fla.)
The Short Story: North Florida remained undefeated at home this season following a wire-to-wire double-digit 89-74 victory against in-state rival FGCU Thursday night in UNF Arena.

GAMEDAY MEDIA CENTER
Final Boxscore

STAT LEADERS
- UNF's starters combined to score 80 of the team's 89 points on the night with all five players reaching double digits
- Senior JT Escobar led the way with 20 points (5 three-pointers)
- Fellow senior Ivan Gandia-Rosa added 19 points and 5 assists
- Carter Hendricksen (18 pts), Garrett Sams (12 pts) and Wajid Aminu (11 pts) rounded out the double figurer scorers | Trio shared team lead with 7 rebounds each
- North Florida shot 52% from the three-point line, making 16 treys
- FGCU had four players reach double figures paced by 16 point - 7 rebound effort from Caleb Catto
- Ospreys outrebounded the Eagles, 34-33, and forced 12 FGCU turnovers

NOTABLE MOMENTS
-North Florida opened the game with an 8-2 run, getting the first five points from Wajid Aminu
-FGCU was able to trim the margin to two points on a couple occasions but never took the lead from the Ospreys
-UNF used three-pointers from multiple players en route to expanding their lead to near double figures late in the first half
- Ospreys outscored the Eagles, 9-2, to close out the period | Held FGCU scoreless for the final 3:09 of the half
- North Florida led 42-31 at the break
- UNF maintained a double-digit advantage for nearly the entire second half, leading by as many as 21 before a closing spurt by FGCU cut into the final margin
 
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE
- North Florida upped its nation-leading 3PM total to 227 for the season and notched their 15th game with 10+ treys
- UNF remained undefeated at home improving to 6-0 this season and have now won 10 consecutive home games
- Ospreys improved to 3-0 in ASUN play, the best start since going 5-0 in 2016-17
- 15-point margin of victory was the second largest for the Ospreys against FGCU
- Ivan Gandia-Rosa became just the 2nd player in UNF program history to reach 500 career assists

LAST WORD
"It is great to be home. We had a great turnout tonight and I thought our student section was outstanding. I was really, really proud of our defensive effort for like 36-37 minutes of the game. Unfortunately, we had a few moments where we let the game turn into a we score, you score type of situation. That's not good for us or how we want to play with where we are trying to go. I don't want to be a team that just tries to outscore somebody. Felt like we did a super job, especially in the second half, of getting shots. Took care of the ball and only had three turnovers in the second half with all of them coming in the last five minutes. We gave up 43 second half points and that's not what we are about or what we are trying to do. We have to tighten that up in a quick turnaround in preparation of Saturday's game against NJIT. Proud of Ivan for scoring 1,000 points and having 500 assists, which is really impressive. I thought Wajid gave us some nice energy and I thought Josh Endicott was phenomenal off the bench." -- Head coach Matthew Driscoll

NEXT UP
The Ospreys continue their current home stand welcoming NJIT Saturday at 5 p.m.