HOUSTON – The University of Houston women’s basketball team hosts Florida State on Saturday in Fertitta Center at 4 p.m. CT in the second all-time meeting between the two schools. Houston won the first meeting last season in Tallahassee, Fla.
THE GAME
- The second all-time meeting between Houston and Florida State brings the home-and-home matchup to Texas after the Cougars topped the Seminoles in 2021.
- Latson is coming off national honors and ranks in the top 10 nationally in scoring.
- Florida State’s head coach Brooke Wyckoff is in her first full season as the head coach of the Seminoles.
LAST TIME OUT
- Houston won its ninth-straight home opener when it topped Texas A&M Commerce 71-55 on Tuesday.
- Senior Tiara Young scored a career-high 21 points in the game off the bench.
- Graduate Tatyana Hill wrangled in a season-high 15 rebounds against the Lions.
- The Cougars forced 41 turnovers by the Lions and were one steal away from the fifth-most steals in a game in program history with 24 steals against Commerce.
- RS-Senior Britney Onyeje was all over the stat sheet with 8 pts, 7 reb, 6 stl.
THE TIP
- Graduate Tatyana Hill is one of two players in The American to post a double-double with a 20pts-10reb in a game.
- Houston and South Florida are the only two programs in The American with two different players with a 20-point game this season.
- Junior Laila Blair was a unanimous Preseason All-Conference First Team selection by The American coaches.
- The Cougars were picked to finish second in the league and received two first place votes in the Coaches Poll.
- Houston faces five teams in 2022-23 that received votes in the Preseason AP Poll. Kansas State, Florida, South Florida, UCF and Washington State.
- Blair was one of three players in The American in 2021-22 to make six 3-pointers in one game and the only player in the conference with two games of six-plus 3-pointers made.
- Blair finished eighth in the league in scoring in 2021-22 (13.3 ppg).
- Graduate Tatyana Hill finished seventh in the league in rebounding in 2021-22 (7.3 rpg).
SERIES HISTORY
Houston record vs Florida State 1-0
home / away / neutral 0-0 / 1-0 / 0-0
Last meeting W, 78-68, 12/16/21, Away
Streak Houston, won 1
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