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The FGCU men’s basketball team (11-7, 1-1 Atlantic Sun Conference) will look to bounce back, and potentially move into a first-place tie in the A-Sun standings, when it welcomes Jacksonville University (7-12, 1-1 A-Sun) to an expected sold-out and hostile Alico Arena Saturday night for a league clash at\u00a07 p.m.\u00a0on ESPN3.<\/p>\n
SETTING THE STAGE<\/strong> At halftime, three-time MLB All Star and former FGCU standout\u00a0Chris Sale<\/strong>\u00a0will address the crowd regarding his and wife’s charity initiative. In conjunction with Laces of Love, the Sales have established the men’s basketball home game on\u00a0Thursday, Jan. 29, as an evening in which monetary or new shoe donations will be accepted to help children in need in Lee and Collier counties. To learn more about the cause,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Additionally, red FGCU T-Shirts will be available for purchase in the lobby for $10. All proceeds go to support the American Heart Association, and the shirts can be worn on\u00a0Feb. 14 and 19\u00a0for the REDOUT games. Finally, raffle tickets to the 2015 Final Four will be available for purchase at the marketing tables immediately upon entry into the arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The FGCU men’s basketball team (11-7, 1-1 Atlantic Sun Conference) will look to bounce back, and potentially move into a first-place tie in the A-Sun standings, when it welcomes Jacksonville… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFGCU, ranked No. 20 in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Poll, is coming off a difficult loss at hot-shooting North Florida\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0night in a matchup of the top-two teams in the A-Sun Preseason Coaches Poll. Jacksonville earned its first league victory of the season Wednesday by protecting its home court and holding off Stetson, 71-69. While still extremely early in the conference slate, FGCU can move into a first-place tie with a win and losses by UNF (at Stetson) and Lipscomb (at Kennesaw State).
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\nWHAT TO KNOW<\/strong>
\nLike last Saturday’s A-Sun opener, the game is expected to be a standing-room-only sellout, with an extremely limited amount of general-admission tickets still available which can be purchased in person at the Alico Arena Ticket Office, by calling\u00a0239-590-7145<\/a>\u00a0or by logging on to FGCUAthletics.com\/Tickets (prior to\u00a0Noon on Saturday). Like all FGCU home games, the contest – presented by Frantz Eye Care – will be broadcast on ESPN3 and via the Watch ESPN app. David Moulton will handle the play-by-play duties with J. Webb Horton serving as the analyst.<\/p>\n