From the Jump - Ospreys Battle Tigers at Auburn - University of North Florida Athletics

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Women's basketball faces another road test Tuesday when North Florida and Auburn meet in Auburn, Ala. Tip-off is scheduled for 8 p.m. EST, 7 p.m. CST.

UNF at Auburn \| Auburn, Ala.
Game 8	Tuesday, Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. EST / 7 p.m. CST
Series History	Auburn leads, 1-0
Social Media / Coverage	@OspreyWBB \| #SWOOPLife \| @UNFOspreys

SCOUTING THE OPPONENT
Auburn: The Tigers are 3-3 and 2-1 at home ... Auburn has defeated Alabama State, No. 18 Georgia Tech and Charleston Southern ... Auburn has falled to Georgia Southern, Old Dominion and Arkansas - Little Rock ... Auburn is coming off a 5-19 year last year in which it went winless in SEC play ... Johnnie Harris is in her first year as head coach at Auburn ... she was the 2018 WBCA National Assistant Coach of the Year and has spent a combined 16 seasons at Arkansas, Texas A&M and Mississippi State ... three Auburn players averaged at least 10 points a game in Sania Wells, Honesty Scott-Grayson and Aicha Coulibaly ... Coulibaly does a bit of everything for Auburn, averaging 2.3 steals, 1.3 assists and 8.2 rebounds per contest ... Auburn is just 250th in the nation in assist/turnover ratio, although they've faired well in holding opponents to a low shooting percentage ... teams are shooting 32.7 percent against Auburn, the 28th best mark in the nation for a team defense.

FROM THE JUMP
>> UNF is 5-2 on the season and 1-1 on its current five-game road stint.
>> UNF's 5-2 start is its best start through seven games in the program's DI-era.
>> North Florida is coming off an 86-76 win at Charleston Saturday. Five Ospreys scored in double figures as hometown kid Rhetta Moore filled up the stat sheet with 15 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 block and two steals. UNF dished out 25 assists, tied for the fourth-most in a single game in UNF history.

>> The Ospreys rank in the top 20 nationally in a number of statistical categories:

-Assists - 142 (2nd)
-Assists/Game - 20.3 (4th)
-Assist/Turnover Ratio - 1.31 (20th)
-Field Goal % - 48.5 (15th)
-Scoring Offense - 84.9 (10th)
-3 PT FG Att. - 185 (7th)
-3 PT FG Made - 67 (4th)
-3 PT FG/Game - 9.6 (14th)
-Turnover Margin - 8.33 (25th)

>> UNF is in the middle of its longest road stint of the season. The Ospreys played at Clemson Wednesday and will follow up Saturday's game at Auburn (Nov. 30), FIU (Dec. 4) and Georgia (Dec. 8). The Ospreys only have two home games between now and January 8.

AN OSPREY WIN WOULD...
-Give UNF its first-ever win against a Power Five team.
-Make 2-2 on the road this season.
-Give the Ospreys their first win against an SEC team.

DOUBLE TROUBLE
Jazz Bond and Emma Broermann have a combined five double-doubles this season.

Bond paces the way with three while Broermann has a pair. Bond ranks first in the league in that category and Broermann is fifth.

FIZZLE SIZZLE
Known as Fizzle per her social media alias, Jazz Bond sizzled last week, averaging 25.5 points and 11 rebounds per game to earn her fifth-career ASUN Player of the Week honor.

The forward poured in 31 points and went 9-for-10 from the FT line, scoring 12 points in OT as UNF defeated FAU, 85-79.

Bond put up 23 points at Clemson and 13 points and nine rebounds in the win at Charleston. The forward moved into third in UNF's total-points chart (1,280), moving past UNF Hall of Famer and former women's basketball coach, Nancy Miller.

She is now tied for sixth in UNF history for three-point field goals made at 123, and is five from moving into fifth. She's also tied for fourth in UNF history for total rebounds (650) and surpassed Larkira Jones for first in the UNF DI-era in defensive rebounds with 491.

HOMECOMING
Graduate student Rhetta Moore, a Charleston, S.C., native, balled out in front of family and friends last week in games at Clemson and Charleston. A walk-on, and Clemson fan growing up, Moore poured in 29 points on 12-for-16 from the floor at Clemson.

She followed that up with a 15-point, 5 rebound, 7 assist, 2 steal and 1 block day in at the TD Arena in downtown Charleston, a familiar place for her.

EVERYBODY SCORES
Five Ospreys put up double-digit scoring days in the win at Charleston. Nubia Benedith and Tatiana Thompson tied career highs with 14 points apiece, Emma Broermann tallied a 17-point and 11-rebound double-double, Jazz Bond added 13 points and Rhetta Moore scored 15.

LAST TIME VS. AUBURN
AUBURN, Ala. - Despite four players reaching double figures, North Florida women's basketball (2-4) could not recover from a slow first quarter as it fell at Auburn, 94-81, on Thursday evening at Auburn Arena.

Date - Result - Location
12/17/20 L, 81-94 Auburn, Ala.

DENIED
Jazz Bond ranks first in the ASUN and 17th nationally in blocked shots, posting 15 through seven games. She has notched a block in every game this year, including four swats at Clemson Nov. 24.

"ALLY-OOP"
Ally Knights has been one of the most efficient point guards in the nation, posting 45 helpers to lead the league and put her at second in the country. She's just one behind Olivia Miles of Notre Dame for the NCAA lead. Knights averages 6.4 assists/game, 12th most nationwide.

From the Jump - Ospreys Battle Tigers at Auburn

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Players Mentioned

Nubia Benedith

Jazz Bond

Emma Broermann

Ally Knights

Rhetta Moore

Tatiana Thompson

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