No. 21 Virginia Faces No. 11 FSU Tuesday Night
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CHARLOTTESVILLE No. 21 Virginia women’s basketball will face No. 11 Florida State in an Atlantic Coast Conference match-up Tuesday evening. Tip-off from the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., and the game will air live on SunSports. Over the airwaves, the game will be on WINA 1070 AM in the Charlottesville area with Jay James, Myron Ripley and Larry Johnson calling the action.
Live audio is available through V Pass and live statistics can be accessed at VirginiaSports.com.
Virginia (21-7, 7-5 ACC) is coming off of a 90-70 victory over Boston College Sunday night at JPJA. The Cavaliers finished 15-2 at home this season.
Head coach Debbie Ryan has reached the 20-win mark for the 22nd time in her career. The Hall of Fame coach’s career record is 696-295, just four wins shy of 700.
Virginia continues to be led offensively by national player of the year candidate Monica Wright, who averages 21.4 points per game, and senior Lyndra Littles, who follows her closely at 21.3 points per game.
Littles and Wright are fifth and eighth, respectively, on UVa’s all-time scoring list. Littles became just the seventh player to ever score 1,700 career-points and has 1,796 headed into the Florida State game.
Wright, meanwhile, is No. 8 with 1,708 points and was the eighth player to reach that milestone. Wright also holds the school record with 13 games of at least 25 points during her career. With 598 points so far in 2008-09, she is on the verge of breaking the Virginia single-season scoring mark. The record is held by Heather Burge (1993) with 612 points in 32 games. Wright needs two points to become just the second player to ever score 600 points in a season and 15 points to break the record.
Aisha Mohammed, meanwhile, is the nearly averaging a double-double (12.9 points, 9.9 rebounds per game), and tallied 10 points and six rebounds in the Cavaliers’ last outing vs. Boston College.
Florida State, ranked No. 11 by the Associated Press and No. 12 by the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll, enters the contest with an overall record of 23-5 and a league mark of 11-1. The Seminoles control first place in the ACC standings and defeated Miami, 59-58, in their last outing (Feb. 22).
Virginia leads the all-time series with Florida State, 29-9, but dropped the first meeting this year by a score of 80-75 (Jan. 23, 2009 at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Va.)
Up next, Virginia concludes the regular-season with a road game on Sunday, March 1 at Georgia Tech (1 p.m., RSN).