The NCAA Tournament is in full swing Friday night and just a half-hour ago it was Hokie heartbreak.

The Eagles proved to be too much for the Hokies on Friday afternoon in College Park, Maryland.

KENNESAW, Ga. – Making its 22nd conference tournament title game appearance in 25 years, Sunday at the KSU Convocation Center, No. 1 seed FGCU claimed its eighth ASUN Women’s Basketball Championship title with an 84-62 triumph over the Lady Flames. Lytle averaged 21.0 ppg for the three-game tournament, earning her third consecutive ASUN All-Tournament Team award. Tishara Morehouse (15 points, 5 assists) and Aaliyah Stanley (12 points) joined Bell on the all-tournament team. AdThe all-tournament team was rounded out by the duo of Lipscomb’s Dorie Harrison and North Florida’s Rhetta Moore.

(Brad Young/Florida Gulf Coast University via AP)Kierstan Bell had never even heard of Florida Gulf Coast at this time last year. Bell is averaging 25.2 points and 11.2 rebounds, joining Michigan’s Naz Hillmon as the only two players in Division I women’s basketball with those numbers. “Coach Smesko, he’s a great coach, been here for a long time, he knows what he’s talking about. FGCU has never had someone average 20 points for a full season; Bell is going to change that. Bell averaged 10.9 points last season at Ohio State, then decided to transfer for personal reasons.

Hockey sticks are helping save the environment during Floridas water crisis. Researches with the Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) are using broken hockey sticks to build marine ecosystems that resemble natural coral reefs. Rink2Reef has already made 45 artificial reefs from the sticks to help restore oyster habitats. Hockey sticks dont break down easily, so recycling them is better than just throwing them away. And the artificial reefs help filter water, around 20,000 gallons a day when they are fully functional.