GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Women’s Basketball Team (9-2) continues its five-game, December homestand this Sunday, Dec. 14 against West Georgia. Tip at Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center is 2 p.m. EST.
 
The Gators most recent result was a 75-61, Dec. 7 win over South Alabama which saw SEC Player of the Year candidate Liv McGill score 32 points, including 17 in the second quarter. McGill’s scoring burst helped turn a five-point Florida deficit through 10 minutes of play into a 13-point Gators’ lead at the intermission. Freshman “Nidi” Yiech added her first career double-double in the victory with 14 points and a career-high 10 rebounds.
 
McGill now has three games of 30 or more points this season making her one of only two players this year in Division I Women’s Basketball with a trio of 30 points games to their credit (Iowa State’s Audi Brooks). Through games of Tuesday, Dec. 9, the Minnesota native ranks second in the nation in scoring (27.3 ppg), sixth in steals per game (4.22) and 33rd in assists per game (5.4).
 
Me’Arah O’Neal’s 14.1 points per game, and Laila Reynolds’ 13.4 points per game give the Gators a trio of double-digit scorers.
 
The NCAA unveiled its initial NET rankings on Nov. 30, and Florida began the season ranked 40th in the nation. Heading into Sunday’s game against the Wolves, the Gators boast a NET ranking of 48.
 
West Georgia is currently in year two of its five-year transition period from Division II to Division I, and this is the first-ever meeting between the programs.
 
The Wolves made five appearances in the NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Tournament, and won the Gulf South Tournament Championship as recently as 2024. Last year, West Georgia went 13-17 in its first season of Division I competition, including 7-11 in the Atlantic Sun Conference
 
The Wolves are 4-3 so far in 2025-26, and led by a quartet of double-figure scorers in Asia Donald (17.0 ppg), Jasmine Jones (15.4), Sydne Tolbert (13.3) and Destiny Jones (11.0). Grace O’Gara nearly gives West Georgia a quintet of double-digit performers as she averages 9.7 points per game.
 
What the Wolves lack at the moment is bench depth as those five players account for 78 percent of the team’s minutes, 86 percent of its field goal attempts, and 91 percent of its points.
 
The Wolves and Gators have just one like opponent to date during non-conference play—Georgia Tech. Florida upended the Yellow Jackets 64-56 at the Grand Cayman Classic over Thanksgiving weekend, while West Georgia topped Tech 69-60 on Nov. 19.
 
West Georgia (4-3)

A FLORIDA WIN WOULD …

• Improve the Gators record to 10-2 on the year.
• Improve Florida’s record to 7-0 at home on the year.
• Run the Gators’ streak of consecutive non-conference home wins to 14, which would be the seventh longest such streak in program history.
• Be the team’s ninth consecutive win at home, which would tie them for the sixth longest such streak in program history.

TALE OF THE TAPE

Florida		West Georgia
77.9	PPG	69.7
58.3	OPP PPG	69.9
+19.6	SCORING MARGIN	-0.2
45.3	FG %	39.6
36.4	OPP FG%	40.7
26.5	3 FG%	32.4
27.6	OPP 3 FG%	32.9
4.7	3FG/G	8.3
69.7	FT %	69.3
41.8	REBOUNDS/G	40.7
36.4	OPP REBOUNDS/G	37.4
+5.4	REB MARGIN	+3.3
12.5	ASSISTS/G	13.0
15.6	TURNOVER/G	19.1
+0.80	A/TO RATIO	+0.68
11.5	STEALS/G	7.7
4.55	BLOCKS/G	2.43

 

PROJECTED FLORIDA STARTERS

 
GATOR BITES

• Through games of Tuesday, Dec. 9, Florida is 11th in the SEC this season in points per game (77.9), 11th in scoring defense (58.3), 11th in scoring margin (+19.6), 11th in field goal percentage (.453), 10th in field goal percentage defense (.364), seventh in three-point field goal percentage defense (.276), eighth in steals (11.6), ninth in turnover margin (+5.36), ninth in offensive rebound percentage (.368), and 10th in blocked shots (4.55).
• Liv McGill became the first player in Gators women’s basketball history to be named a US Basketball Writers Association National Player of the Week on Tuesday, Nov. 11. She averaged 27.7 points, 6.0 rebounds, 7.3 assists, and 5.00 steals while connecting on 40.9 percent of her three-point field goal attempts in Florida’s three wins. She also was named the SEC Player of the Week for her performance during that same stretch of games.
• Liv McGill was named the most outstanding player of the Grand Cayman Classic over Thanksgiving weekend when she averaged 27.0 points, 4.5 rebounds, 4,0 assists, 2.00 steals and 1.00 blocked shots.
• Liv McGill has three games this season of at least 25 points, five rebounds, five assists and five steals. The other 4,505 players competing in women’s basketball at the Division I level have three 25-5-5-5 games … combined.
• The Gators have held 13 straight opponents below 70 points.

PROJECTED WEST GEORGIA STARTERS

	No.	Ht.	Pos.	Class	Hometown / Previous Schools
Sydne Tolbert	1	5-4	G	Jr.	Louisville, Ky. /
Asia Donald	3	5-9	G	Jr.	Hobart, Ind. /
Grace O’Gara	5	5-5	G	Jr.	Worcester, Mass. / Auburn Montgomery
Gal-la Font	11	6-0	F	Jr.	Barcelona, Spain / Western Nebraska CC
Jasmine Jones	32	5-11	F	Sr.	Carrollton, Ga. / Chipola, New Orleans

WOLVES QUICK HITS

• The Wolves are in their second year of competition as a Division I program.
• The women’s basketball team was the only West Georgia program to qualify for the ASUN Conference Tournament in their inaugural Division I campaign.
• The Wolves were picked to finish 10th in the ASUN by the coaches and media.
• West Georgia has four players averaging double-digits in scoring this year—Asia Donald (17.0 ppg), Jasmine Jones (15.4), Sydne Tolbert (13.3) and Destiny Jones (11.0). Grace O’Gara is just shy of double figures at 9.7 points per game.
• Sydne Tolbert and Destiny Jones were both named to the preseason All-ASUN Team.
• Jasmine Jones was named the ASUN newcomer and player of the year in the first week of the season.

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