Okeke’s dominance put him 15th in JUCO Recruiting’s top 100, and his addition is a key as the Panthers look to drastically improve their defense from last season, which ranked ninth in Conference USA. He led the Eagles to the NJCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tournament last season, where they reached the semifinals for only the third time in school history. He also played in 37 out of 38 games last season. Something to note with Okeke’s defense is that he averaged fewer fouls (1.5) than blocks (1.7) last season, proving his patience and discipline. In only 19 minutes a game, Okeke managed to average 1.7 blocks and 0.5 steals per game. He served his team with energy, hustle and intelligence, leading the league in field-goal percentage (64.5 percent). The 6-9, 230-pound forward spent his last season with the Tallahassee Community College Eagles, where he averaged 8.9 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game.
The team stormed the court seconds after, celebrating the culmination of their work this season.īut once the cheers died down, the Panthers all echoed a similar sentiment: there was still work to be done.Īfter receiving offers from Memphis, Maryland and Kansas State, JUCO star Okechukwu Okeke has signed with FIU, as announced by head coach Jeremy Ballard on April 17, 2023, via Twitter. Quadre finished the Owls off to fulfill FIU’s championship dreams, dispatching Diae El Jardi 6-3, 7-5. So she had not played a tennis match in six months and for her to step up in January, miss the first few days of practice and step on the court three days prior for the first match against Liberty was huge.” “Therefore, she wasn’t here in August and was not allowed to compete at all. Being from Nigeria, she had to do extra paperwork from the NCAA standpoint,” Petrovic said. The singles matches were just as dominant, setting up Quadre phenom to carry the team across the finish line. The doubles teams of Salma Loudili and Katerina Mandelikovaa, Ekaterina Khairutdinova and Kamila Umarova and Yasmine Kabbaj and Oyinlomo Quadre earned doubles victories. The team (18-4) has won at least 15 matches five times since 2013. It will be the Panthers’ third consecutive NCAA appearance under coach Katarina Petrovic. 58 Rice 4-1 in Denton, Texas, to win its second Conference USA Championship in program history and earn an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. Other opponents added to the Panthers’ future schedule include North Texas, which FIU faces at home in 2023 and at Apogee Stadium in Denton, Texas, in 2029. Their other matchup was in 2008 when the Bulls spoiled the Panthers’ debut of their new on-campus stadium with a 17-9 victory. The first time these two teams met was back in 2006 when the Bulls edged FIU in a 21-20 win in Tampa. The Panthers will play the Bulls on September 5, 2026, at Raymond James Stadium and host USF on September 22, 2029, at FIU Stadium.
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FIU football announced Monday that a two-game nonconference series against the University of South Florida has been finalized for 20.
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