2021-22 Men's Basketball - Year In Review
Leonard Hamilton, Head Coach
Stan Jones, Associate Head Coach
Jarrod Lazarus, Director of Operations
Steve Smith, Assistant Coach
Charlton Young, Assistant Coach
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2021-22 Men's Basketball - Year In Review | |
| Coaching Staff Leonard Hamilton, Head Coach Stan Jones, Associate Head Coach Jarrod Lazarus, Director of Operations Steve Smith, Assistant Coach Charlton Young, Assistant Coach Click here to see individual photos |
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John Butler, 7-1, 190, F, Greenville, S.C.
Matthew Cleveland, 6-7, 200, G, Alpharetta, Ga.
Cam'ron Fletcher, 6-7, 215, G, Saint Louis, Mo.
John Horner, 6-7, 205, F, Ventor City, N.J.
Naheem McLeod, 7-4, 248, C, Philadelphia, Pa.
Caleb Mills, 6-7, 215, G, Arden, N.C.
Barrett Waldrop, 6-7, 205, F-G, Freeport
Jaylen Warley, 6-6, 200, G, Mount Airy, Pa.
2022 Roster - By Name
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T PY
R No Name Pos Hgt Wgt Cl Ltr Hometown (Prior School)
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* 15 Quincy Ballard C 7-0 240 So * Syracuse, N.Y. (Quality Education Academy)
* 5 Michael Brown F 6-7 220 Fr Fort Washington, Md. (Sidwell Friends School)
* 22 John Butler F 7-1 190 Fr Greenville, S.C. (Christ Church Episcopal)
* 35 Matthew Cleveland G 6-7 200 Fr Alpharetta, Ga. (Pace)
* 0 RayQuan Evans G 6-4 210 Sr ** Billings, Mont. (Skyview/North Idaho College)
* 21 Cam'ron Fletcher G 6-7 215 So Saint Louis, Mo. (Vashon/Kentucky)
25 John Horner F 6-7 205 Fr Ventor City, N.J. (Saint Augustine Prep)
* 12 Justin Lindner G 6-1 180 Sr-R **** Memphis, Tenn. (Christian Brothers)
* 24 Naheem McLeod C 7-4 248 Fr-R Philadelphia, Pa. (Plymouth-Whitemarsh/Chipola College)
* 4 Caleb Mills G 6-7 215 So-R Arden, N.C. (Asheville Christian Academy/Houston)
* 11 Tanor Ngom C 7-2 236 Sr * Dakar, Senegal (Iqra Bilingual Academy/Ryerson)
* 10 Malik Osborne F 6-9 225 Sr-R ** Matteson, Ill. (Rich South/Rice)
* 2 Anthony Polite G 6-6 214 Sr-R *** Lugano, Switzerland (Saint Andrews)
* 30 Harrison Prieto F 6-8 230 Sr-R **** Mandeville, La. (Saint Paul's)
* 40 Isaac Spainhour G 6-3 180 Fr-R King, N.C. (West Stokes)
* 44 Max Thorpe G 6-3 175 Fr-R Clearwater (Clearwater Admy International)
34 Barrett Waldrop F-G 6-7 205 Fr Freeport (South Walton)
* 1 Jaylen Warley G 6-6 200 Fr Mount Airy, Pa. (Westtown School)
* 31 Wyatt Wilkes G 6-8 220 Sr-R *** Orlando (Winter Park)
* 42 Cleveland Yates G 6-2 214 So-R * Memphis, Tenn. (Briarcrest Christian School)
2022 Roster - By Number
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T PY
R No Name Pos Hgt Wgt Cl Ltr Hometown (Prior School)
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* 0 RayQuan Evans G 6-4 210 Sr ** Billings, Mont. (Skyview/North Idaho College)
* 1 Jaylen Warley G 6-6 200 Fr Mount Airy, Pa. (Westtown School)
* 2 Anthony Polite G 6-6 214 Sr-R *** Lugano, Switzerland (Saint Andrews)
* 4 Caleb Mills G 6-7 215 So-R Arden, N.C. (Asheville Christian Academy/Houston)
* 5 Michael Brown F 6-7 220 Fr Fort Washington, Md. (Sidwell Friends School)
* 10 Malik Osborne F 6-9 225 Sr-R ** Matteson, Ill. (Rich South/Rice)
* 11 Tanor Ngom C 7-2 236 Sr * Dakar, Senegal (Iqra Bilingual Academy/Ryerson)
* 12 Justin Lindner G 6-1 180 Sr-R **** Memphis, Tenn. (Christian Brothers)
* 15 Quincy Ballard C 7-0 240 So * Syracuse, N.Y. (Quality Education Academy)
* 21 Cam'ron Fletcher G 6-7 215 So Saint Louis, Mo. (Vashon/Kentucky)
* 22 John Butler F 7-1 190 Fr Greenville, S.C. (Christ Church Episcopal)
* 24 Naheem McLeod C 7-4 248 Fr-R Philadelphia, Pa. (Plymouth-Whitemarsh/Chipola College)
25 John Horner F 6-7 205 Fr Ventor City, N.J. (Saint Augustine Prep)
* 30 Harrison Prieto F 6-8 230 Sr-R **** Mandeville, La. (Saint Paul's)
* 31 Wyatt Wilkes G 6-8 220 Sr-R *** Orlando (Winter Park)
34 Barrett Waldrop F-G 6-7 205 Fr Freeport (South Walton)
* 35 Matthew Cleveland G 6-7 200 Fr Alpharetta, Ga. (Pace)
* 40 Isaac Spainhour G 6-3 180 Fr-R King, N.C. (West Stokes)
* 42 Cleveland Yates G 6-2 214 So-R * Memphis, Tenn. (Briarcrest Christian School)
* 44 Max Thorpe G 6-3 175 Fr-R Clearwater (Clearwater Admy International)
2021-22 Conference Awards
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Matthew Cleveland Atlantic Coast Conference - Sixth Man
All-Conference - 1
2021-22 Noles in the Pros
Name No Pos Team
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Scottie Barnes 4 SF Toronto Raptors
Malik Beasley 5 SG Minnesota Timberwolves
Trent Forrest 3 PG Utah Jazz
Jonathan Isaac 1 PF Orlando Magic
Terance Mann 14 SF Los Angeles Clippers
Devin Vassell 24 SF San Antonio Spurs
MJ Walker 21 G Phoenix Suns
Patrick Williams 44 PF Chicago Bulls
Noles in the Pros - 8
2022 Schedule and Results
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| Loyola-Marymount Jacksonville Classic, Jacksonville |
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| Missouri Jacksonville Classic, Jacksonville |
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| Boston OT, Jacksonville Classic |
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| Purdue Big Ten-ACC Challenge |
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| Syracuse | |||||||||||||
| South Carolina No Room for Racism Classic, Rock Hill, S.C. |
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| Syracuse ACC, Brooklyn, N.Y. |
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EOY StatsRef Conference games in bold Overall Home Away Neutral ------------------------------------------------ FSU record is 17-14 11- 4 4- 8 2- 2 vs ACC 10-10 6- 4 4- 6 0- 0 Against Top 25 1- 2 1- 0 0- 2 0- 0
2021-22 Atlantic Coast Conference Results 1 Duke 16- 4 32- 7 2t North Carolina 15- 5 29-10 2t Notre Dame 15- 5 24-11 4 Miami 14- 6 26-11 5 Wake Forest 13- 7 25-10 6 Virginia 12- 8 21-14 7 Virginia Tech 11- 9 23-13 8 Florida State 10-10 17-14 9 Syracuse 9-11 16-17 10 Clemson 8-12 17-16 11t Boston College 6-14 13-20 11t Louisville 6-14 13-19 11t Pittsburgh 6-14 11-21 14 Georgia Tech 5-15 12-20 15 North Carolina State 4-16 11-21
2021-22 CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT, Brooklyn, N.Y. Date Score Comments ========== ================================================== ================================== 03/08/2022 (13)Boston College 66, (12)Pittsburgh 46 Round 1 03/08/2022 (10)Clemson 70, (15)North Carolina State 64 Round 1 03/08/2022 (11)Louisville 84, (14)Georgia Tech 74 Round 1 03/09/2022 (9)Syracuse 96, (8)Florida State 57 Round 2 03/09/2022 (13)Boston College 82, (5)Wake Forest 77 Round 2 03/09/2022 (7)Virginia Tech 76, (10)Clemson 75 Round 2 03/09/2022 (6)Virginia 51, (11)Louisville 50 Round 2 03/10/2022 (1)Duke 88, (9)Syracuse 79 Round 3 03/10/2022 (4)Miami 71, (13)Boston College 69 Round 3 03/10/2022 (7)Virginia Tech 87, (2)Notre Dame 80 Round 3 03/10/2022 (3)North Carolina 63, (6)Virginia 43 Round 3 03/11/2022 (1)Duke 80, (4)Miami 76 Round 4 03/11/2022 (7)Virginia Tech 72, (3)North Carolina 59 Round 4 03/12/2022 (7)Virginia Tech 82, (1)Duke 67 Round 5
2021-22 - 30 Point Club
Name Date Opponent FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- None2021-22 - 15 Rebound Club
Name Date Opponent O-REB D-REB TOTAL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ None2021-22 - 10 Assist Club
Name Date Opponent Assists ------------------------------------------------------------------ RayQuan Evans 03/05/2022 North Carolina State 10
--3 Point--- ----REBOUNDS-----
Name GP GS Min FGM FGA PCT FGM FGA PCT FTM FTA PCT PTS AVG OFF DEF TOT AVG PF DQ AST TO BLK STL
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Matthew Cleveland 29 8 759 133 294 .452 6 34 .176 61 110 .555 333 11.5 43 89 132 4.6 59 0 35 38 14 20
Caleb Mills 26 23 685 120 277 .433 30 85 .353 59 69 .855 329 12.7 11 51 62 2.4 49 0 63 53 13 39
Anthony Polite 24 24 670 78 182 .429 26 81 .321 56 70 .800 238 9.9 43 92 135 5.6 42 0 60 40 13 35
RayQuan Evans 27 26 669 72 183 .393 18 54 .333 53 62 .855 215 8.0 9 59 68 2.5 41 0 86 43 11 41
Cam'ron Fletcher 29 0 473 76 160 .475 21 58 .362 25 33 .758 198 6.8 37 63 100 3.4 48 0 26 43 5 27
John Butler 31 24 589 69 166 .416 33 84 .393 11 25 .440 182 5.9 21 79 100 3.2 61 1 23 26 36 13
Malik Osborne 17 14 469 48 117 .410 20 56 .357 54 65 .831 170 10.0 37 81 118 6.9 23 0 15 11 4 17
Wyatt Wilkes 31 10 480 44 142 .310 31 105 .295 3 9 .333 122 3.9 10 35 45 1.5 31 0 38 27 7 17
Jaylen Warley 31 5 597 39 118 .331 9 30 .300 27 40 .675 114 3.7 9 49 58 1.9 57 0 78 39 9 37
Tanor Ngom 20 15 245 42 67 .627 2 10 .200 27 34 .794 113 5.7 24 31 55 2.8 41 0 4 22 15 6
Naheem McLeod 18 5 199 34 50 .680 0 0 .000 13 25 .520 81 4.5 27 10 37 2.1 17 0 0 8 7 1
Harrison Prieto 21 0 266 33 59 .559 10 22 .455 4 9 .444 80 3.8 20 20 40 1.9 24 0 5 5 5 6
Quincy Ballard 18 0 85 7 10 .700 0 0 .000 2 6 .333 16 0.9 9 12 21 1.2 7 0 1 4 11 2
Justin Lindner 11 1 35 2 7 .286 1 2 .500 0 0 .000 5 0.5 0 4 4 0.4 3 0 10 7 0 1
Isaac Spainhour 6 0 11 2 6 .333 1 4 .250 0 0 .000 5 0.8 0 3 3 0.5 2 0 0 1 0 1
Cleveland Yates 3 0 8 0 2 .000 0 1 .000 0 0 .000 0 0.0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Max Thorpe 5 0 10 0 2 .000 0 2 .000 0 1 .000 0 0.0 0 2 2 0.4 1 0 0 2 0 1
Team 53 49 102 18
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FSU 31 799 1842 .434 208 628 .331 395 558 .708 2201 71.0 353 729 1082 34.9 506 1 445 387 151 264
Opp 31 786 1769 .444 276 748 .369 382 538 .710 2230 71.9 328 761 1089 35.1 496 9 433 448 95 182
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Florida State Defeats Penn 105-70 In Season Opener.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Redshirt senior Malik Osborne had a team high 18 points and 13 rebounds in Florida State's 105-70 season-opening victory against the University of Pennsylvania at the Donald L. Tucker Center. The performance marked Osborne's fourth career double-double and his Florida State career high in scoring. The Seminoles' victory over Penn marks the first time they have defeated a team from the Ivy League in program history.
Osborne led three Seminoles in double-figure scoring in the victory. Senior RayQuan Evans and sophomore Caleb Mills contributed 14 points while redshirt senior Anthony Polite scored 17. Evans had five assists and three steals against the Quakers as well.
Polite scored three triples against Penn and is now one of the top 25 3-point field goal shooters by percentage with a .366 throughout his career. He has 82 career 3-point field goals made and needs 18 more to become the 24th player in school history with 100 or more career 3-point field goals made.
"I thought our players showed a tremendous amount of maturity tonight, in terms of giving our inexperienced guys a lot of leadership on the floor," said Seminole Head Coach Leonard Hamilton. "I thought we had good focus during the week."
Sophomore Cam'ron Fletcher was one point shy of double figure scoring with nine points but contributed a career-high five steals.
The Seminoles were up by a 51-39 margin going into the locker room at halftime, with a 17-point performance by Osborne and four steals from Fletcher all in the first half.
With 16 Seminoles getting playing time, Florida State extended their lead to 41 points late in the second half. The Seminoles held the Quakers to .397 shooting from the field and held a 49-29 rebounding margin. Florida State had 15 steals while Penn only had four.
"Were still are trying to find ourselves," said Hamilton. "We are still trying to develop some consistency in our practices, and we know that we can be better than how we played tonight. I thought our effort, our energy, even though we played through some mistakes, was tremendous. We didn't shoot well from the three; we are a better three point shooting team than we showed, but they pressed the entire game and until the last two or three minutes we only had eight turnovers and that just shows that our guys are learning and growing and absorbing what we are trying to teach them."
Florida State's triple digit performance marks the 11th time in program history that the Seminoles have scored over 100 points in a season opener. The most recent was a 109-62 victory over Nicholls State on November 15, 2015.
Penn's Jordan Dingle led the Quakers with a game-high 23 points while junior Jonah Charles and sophomore Clark Slajchert had 12 points apiece.
"We knew that Florida State would be long and athletic," said Penn Coach Steve Donahue. "But I think what caught our guys off guard a little bit was how physical and relentless they were - especially on the defensive end. With so many of our guys playing in a regular-season game for the first time, there were more 'welcome to college basketball' moments than I would have liked to see. There was a tenacity to that FSU team that doesn't translate on film."
Osborne spoke of the tremendous atmosphere in the Tucker Center.
"It's an amazing feeling," said Osborne. "We've got a lot of guys who are energy guys, so them playing in these types of environments where the Tucker is packed out and everybody is giving us energy. Those things are what make us play even harder, what drives us even more because we know we are playing for each other, but we also have the extra support of our fan base behind us."
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
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0 RayQuan Evans g 18 5 9 1 2 3 4 14 0 3 3 2 5 3 0 3
2 Anthony Polite g 24 5 9 3 4 4 6 17 4 2 6 1 0 0 0 1
4 Caleb Mills g 21 6 13 1 4 1 1 14 2 3 5 2 3 0 1 2
10 Malik Osborne f 23 4 6 1 3 9 12 18 7 6 13 1 0 0 0 1
31 Wyatt Wilkes f 16 2 6 0 2 0 0 4 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 1
1 Jaylen Warley 18 1 4 0 0 4 4 6 0 2 2 4 3 1 0 0
12 Justin Lindner 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 0 0
15 Quincy Ballard 7 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 3 0 0 0 1 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 17 4 8 0 2 1 2 9 4 0 4 2 1 0 0 5
22 John Butler 10 2 2 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 1
24 Naheem McLeod 10 1 2 0 0 1 3 3 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 0
30 Harrison Prieto 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 20 4 9 0 2 1 2 9 2 3 5 1 1 0 0 0
40 Isaac Spainhour 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
42 Cleveland Yates 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
44 Max Thorpe 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
Team 1 1 2
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FSU 5 200 37 75 7 22 24 34 105 24 25 49 18 16 11 6 15
Opp 200 23 58 9 27 15 19 70 11 18 29 23 11 26 2 4
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
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| Pennsylvania | |||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Basketball Falls to Florida 71-55.
by Kennedy Knisley
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Senior Malik Osborne scored a team-high 18 points and freshman Matthew Cleveland scored 11 points as the No. 19/20 Florida State Seminoles fell short at Florida, 71-55. Osborne contributed three steals, while redshirt senior Anthony Polite grabbed a team-high eight rebounds. The Seminoles' seven-game winning streak against the Gators, which began in 2014, ended this afternoon at the Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center.
Florida's defense forced Florida State away from its attacking style of defense early in the game.
Freshman John Butler, Jr. contributed back-to-back 3-point shots and a block to tie the game at 15 before the eight minute media timeout. Osborne then made his first 3-pointer of the game to give the Seminoles their first lead of the game at 20-17. Their largest lead came after another 3-point shot by Osborne, which put the Seminoles up 30-26 as halftime drew closer.
Florida State went into the locker room with a 30-28 lead at the end of the first.
In a game that saw 14 lead changes and nine ties, the Gators reclaimed the lead once and for all at the 12 media timeout of the second half. Florida maintained a 12-point lead until Cleveland made a 3-poin shots to bring the Seminoles to within nine at 56-47.
Unfortunately, that was not enough for the Seminoles, as the Gators took a 64-50 margin with 4:15 left in the game.
Florida State shot .380 from the field and .470 from the three-point line. The Gators shot .390 from the field and only .290 from the three-point line. The Seminoles were outrebounded 44-33 but showed its depth with 22 bench points, while the Gators only had 12 bench points.
With today's performance, Osborne has scored 36 points (18.0 ppg) in the first two games of the season. He is four of seven (.571) from the 3-point line and 10 of 16 (.625) from the field in the first two games of the season.
Butler is five of six (.833) from the field in his first two collegiate games of his career. With two blocks this afternoon, he totals three blocks on the season.
Polite now averages 7.0 rebounds with a total of 14 rebounds and has 19 points (9.5 ppg) in two games against Penn and Florida. Senior RayQuan Evans led the team with three assists and is averaging 4.0 apg this season.
Florida's Colin Castleton and Anthony Duruji led the Gators with 15 points each, as four Gators scored in double digits. Castleton also grabbed 16 rebounds and blocked six shots against the Seminoles. The win was head coach Mike White's first victory over Florida State as Florida's head coach.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
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0 RayQuan Evans g 25 1 3 0 0 4 6 6 0 1 1 3 3 2 0 2
2 Anthony Polite g 28 1 7 0 3 0 0 2 2 6 8 1 2 3 1 1
4 Caleb Mills g 17 1 7 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 2 3 0 2 0 0
10 Malik Osborne f 33 6 10 3 4 3 5 18 2 4 6 1 2 3 0 3
31 Wyatt Wilkes f 13 2 5 1 3 0 0 5 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0
1 Jaylen Warley 15 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 18 1 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 2 2 2 3 0 0
22 John Butler 14 3 4 2 2 0 0 8 1 1 2 2 0 1 2 0
24 Naheem McLeod 7 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 30 5 10 1 1 0 2 11 1 5 6 3 1 1 1 1
Team 3 2 5 1
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FSU 5 200 20 52 7 15 8 15 55 9 24 33 19 10 17 4 8
Opp 200 24 62 8 28 15 20 71 17 27 44 12 11 15 10 9
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| Florida State | |||
| Florida |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Basketball Defeats Tulane 59-54.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Redshirt sophomore Caleb Mills scored a team-high 13 points and a had career-high three steals to lead Florida State to a 59-54 win over Tulane in its second home game of the season at the Donald L. Tucker Center. Sophomore Cam'Ron Fletcher also scored in double digits with 11 points, and senior Malik Osborne approached his fifth career double-double with nine points and 10 rebounds.
Florida State led throughout the second half and outscored the Green Wave by a 10-8 margin in the final 6:11 to gain the victory. Tulane closed to within three at 49-46 at the 6:11 mark, but a three-point play by Fletcher after he was fouled on a dunk, a dunk by Osborne and a second dunk by Fletcher gave the Seminoles a 56-46 lead with 3:46 remaining.
The Green Wave rallied closed to within 57-54 with 1:56 left but missed their last three shots after Anthony Polite's layup closed the scoring. Polite grabbed 10 rebounds and Osborne nine for Florida State.
Fletcher's career high of 11 points came on four of five shooting from the field and two of three shooting from the 3-point line. He also added two rebounds.
Mills scored 10 first half points to stake the Seminoles to a 37-32 lead at the intermission. In addition to his 10 points in the first 20 minutes, Mills earned three steals, two assists and one blocked shot.
In the first three games of his Florida State career, Mills has had five steals (1.67 spg) and a total of 29 points (9.7 ppg). The transfer from Houston has also scored in double figures in two of his first three games this season (14 points against Penn, Nov. 10; 13 points against Tulane, Nov. 17).
Osborne and Polite reached double digits in rebounds with 10 apiece. The 10 rebounds rank as Polite's career-high for rebounds in a game. Polite contributed six points and a team-high three assists. Senior RayQuan Evans had two steals this evening, bringing his season total to seven steals (2.3 spg). Evans also contributed a career-high four blocked shots in the victory.
The Seminoles led 37-32 at the half, holding Tulane to .393 shooting from the field. Florida State has led at halftime during each of its first three games this season.
Coming out of the locker room, the Seminoles were determined defensively and held Tulane to a .185 shooting percentage from the field (five of 27) in the second half. Florida State shot .400 from the field throughout the entirety of the game and outscored Tulane from the bench 26-10.
Tulane's Jalen Cook led the team with 21 points and four assists, while Jaylen Forbes contributed 15 points and a team-high eight rebounds.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
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0 RayQuan Evans g 25 1 8 0 2 0 1 2 1 1 2 0 2 4 4 2
2 Anthony Polite g 30 2 7 0 5 2 3 6 3 7 10 2 3 3 1 2
4 Caleb Mills g 34 5 15 2 6 1 2 13 1 3 4 1 3 2 1 3
10 Malik Osborne f 33 3 5 1 1 2 3 9 4 6 10 1 0 1 2 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes f 13 1 3 1 3 0 0 3 0 2 2 0 2 0 1 1
1 Jaylen Warley 9 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 0
11 Tanor Ngom 7 1 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 14 4 5 2 3 1 1 11 2 0 2 4 0 1 0 0
22 John Butler 15 3 4 0 1 0 0 6 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 20 2 6 0 1 1 2 5 2 5 7 2 3 1 0 0
Team 2 2
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FSU 5 200 22 55 6 22 9 16 59 15 27 42 16 15 15 9 8
Opp 200 16 55 9 26 13 20 54 15 23 38 14 6 13 4 8
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
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| Tulane | |||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Basketball Tops LMU, 73-45; Will Play Missouri Monday.
by Kennedy Knisley
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Freshman Matthew Cleveland scored 13 points to lead Florida State to a 73-45 win over Loyola Marymount in the Jacksonville Classic at the UNF Arena. Cleveland led three Seminoles in double figure scoring while redshirt senior Anthony Polite pulled down a team-high seven rebounds. Malik Osborne and Tanor Ngom, who made his first start as a Seminole, both added 10 points.
The Seminoles will play Missouri for the tournament championship Monday at 8:30. Missouri defeated SMU, 80-75 in overtime, in the second game of Sunday's doubleheader.
Polite, who scored six points, also contributed four assists and two steals as the Seminoles improved to 3-1.
Osborne scored in double figures for the third time in Florida State's first four games with 10 points, including a perfect 2-of-2 from the three-point line and a perfect 4-of-4 from the free throw line. He is averaging 13.8 points per game and 8.3 rebounds per game so far this season.
Ngom scored in double-figures with a career-high 10 points. He was 5-of-6 (.833) shooting from the field and pulled down four rebounds.
After falling down 8-2 in the games' opening minutes, the Seminoles quickly went on the defensive and outscored the Lions by a 30-9 margin to close the half. Florida State limited LMU to 17 first half points on only six made field goals in the first half. Florida State led by 15 at 32-17 at the intermission.
Florida State opened the second scoring nine of the first 11 points of the half - on consecutive 3-point shots by RayQuan Evans, Caleb Mills and Osborne as it up its leads to 41-19. The Seminoles' offense continued to play well early in the second half as they upped their lead to 49-22 (+27) with 15:08 left to play.
Six different Seminoles (Osborne, Evans, Polite, Mills, Wyatt Wilkes, and John Butler) scored at least one 3-point shot. Florida State made eight made three-pointers as compared to just six by Loyola Marymount.
With fourteen players receiving game minutes, nine Seminoles scored at least five points in their victory over the Lions. In the paint, the Florida State outscored LMU by a 36-19 margin. The Seminoles' bench outscored Loyola Marymount's by a 32-10 margin.
For the game Florida State shot .509 from the field, .421 from the three, and .636 from the line. The Seminoles held the Lions to .364 shooting from the field and .273 from beyond the arc.
The Seminoles scored 33 points on 24 forced turnovers, a season-high for Loyola Marymount. Florida State also had 14 steals and has recorded at least eight steals in each of their four games this season.
Loyola Marymount's Joe Quintana led the Lions with 12 points.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
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0 RayQuan Evans g 16 2 5 2 3 0 0 6 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 2
2 Anthony Polite g 20 2 6 1 3 1 2 6 2 5 7 2 4 2 0 2
4 Caleb Mills g 24 4 10 1 3 0 0 9 1 2 3 0 3 3 1 2
10 Malik Osborne f 20 2 4 2 2 4 4 10 1 2 3 0 2 0 0 1
11 Tanor Ngom c 14 5 6 0 0 0 0 10 2 2 4 2 1 2 0 0
1 Jaylen Warley 21 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 4 1 4 2 0 2
12 Justin Lindner 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
15 Quincy Ballard 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 12 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 0
22 John Butler 18 2 4 1 2 0 0 5 0 3 3 2 1 0 3 1
24 Naheem McLeod 17 3 5 0 0 0 1 6 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 1
30 Harrison Prieto 3 2 2 0 0 1 2 5 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 12 1 3 1 3 0 0 3 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 1
35 Matthew Cleveland 17 6 8 0 1 1 2 13 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1
Team 5 5 4
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FSU 5 200 29 57 8 19 7 11 73 9 27 36 18 21 17 6 14
Opp 200 16 44 6 22 7 16 45 6 21 27 17 7 24 0 7
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
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| Florida State | |||
| Loyola-Marymount |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Basketball: Champions Of The Jacksonville Classic With 81-58 Win Over Missouri.
by Taylor Caradonna, Florida State Sports Information
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Florida State scored first and often in the championship game of the Inaugural Jacksonville Classic as it overwhelmed Missouri, 81-58, to win its sixth in-season tournament championship under Head Coach Leonard Hamilton. The Seminoles never trailed, led 44-23 at halftime, and increased their lead to 28 in the second half in claiming the win over the Tigers. Florida State was led by Malik Osborne, who was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, and he scored 10 points and pulled down seven rebounds in the championship-clinching win.
Anthony Polite led the Seminoles with 14 points on six of nine shooting from the field to go along with three rebounds, two assists and two steals. Also in double figures for the Seminoles were Cam'Ron Fletcher with 12 and freshman Matthew Cleveland with 10.
Hamilton played his full complement of 17 players as the Seminoles were playing their second game in as many nights after defeating Loyola Marymount, 73-45, on Sunday. For the Seminoles, 13 players found the scoring column as they shot the ball incredibly well throughout the game.
With 17 Seminoles earning playing time in the championship victory, eight Seminoles scored at least four points. Florida State converted 16 Missouri turnovers into 24 points. The Seminoles outscored Missouri at a 33-21 margin in the paint, while the Seminoles bench outscored Missouri by a 39-12 margin.
Florida State shot .611 from the field (33 of 54), .417 from the 3-point line (10 of 24) and made five of eight free throw attempts in the win. The Seminoles shot .643 in the first half (18 of 28) and .577 in the second half (15 of 26) as the game was never tied and the lead never changed hands after Polite scored the first basket of the game at the 19:29 mark of the first half to give the Seminoles a 3-0 advantage.
The Seminoles were a very giving bunch against Missouri as they were credited with 19 assists on 33 baskets. RayQuan Evans tied his career-high with six assists while Caleb Mills and John Butler accounted for three assists each.
Osborne continued his streak of double digit scoring, this being the fourth time in five games, as he scored 10 points and pulled down seven rebounds. Osborne was four of six (.667) from the field and two of three (.667) from the 3-point line.
Cleveland was four of eight from the field and a perfect two of two from the free throw line in reaching double figure scoring for the second consecutive game and the third time in the first five games of his career.
The Seminoles held Missouri off the scoreboard for the first 2:29 of the game before surrendering the Tigers' first field goals of the game. Florida State steadily increased its lead throughout the half. Florida State led by 10 at the 11:31 mark, by 21 at the 6:41 mark and by 23 at halftime.
Florida State continued its domination to begin the second half. The Seminoles led by at least 20 points throughout much of the second half and took its biggest lead, 28, on a Fletcher jumpshot with 3:57 left to play.
17 Seminoles got playing time in tonight's game, with eight Seminoles scoring at least four points each. Florida State converted 16 forced turnovers into 24 points. Meanwhile, inside the paint, the Seminoles outscored Missouri by a 33-21 margin, while the Seminoles bench outscored their opponents by a 39-12 margin.
Missouri's Amari Davis led the Tigers with 14 points.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 16 3 6 1 3 1 2 8 0 0 0 0 6 1 0 0
2 Anthony Polite g 21 6 9 2 3 0 0 14 0 3 3 1 2 3 0 2
4 Caleb Mills g 25 3 5 1 2 1 2 8 0 1 1 3 3 1 0 2
10 Malik Osborne f 19 4 6 2 3 0 0 10 1 6 7 0 0 1 0 0
11 Tanor Ngom c 13 1 2 0 1 0 0 2 2 2 4 1 0 0 2 0
1 Jaylen Warley 20 2 2 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 2 1 1 2 0 1
12 Justin Lindner 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
15 Quincy Ballard 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 18 5 6 2 3 0 0 12 0 1 1 1 1 2 0 1
22 John Butler 13 1 3 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 3 3 0 0 1
24 Naheem McLeod 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
30 Harrison Prieto 3 1 2 1 2 0 0 3 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 13 1 2 1 2 1 2 4 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 17 4 8 0 2 2 2 10 0 4 4 1 1 2 1 1
40 Isaac Spainhour 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1
42 Cleveland Yates 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
44 Max Thorpe 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Team 1 1 2 2
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FSU 5 200 33 54 10 24 5 8 81 6 24 30 16 19 16 3 10
Opp 200 21 55 6 22 10 15 58 12 15 27 6 11 17 0 6
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| Missouri |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Basketball Defeats Boston University 81-80 in Overtime.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Freshman Matthew Cleveland scored on a put-back layup with 2.1 seconds remaining in overtime to give Florida State an 81-80 victory over Boston College at the Donald L. Tucker Center. Cleveland rebounded a missed shot by Caleb Mills to give the Seminoles their only lead in the overtime period and the victory over the upset minded Terriers.
Cleveland then stole the Terriers' inbounds pass to secure the win for the Seminoles.
The win was the 12th consecutive overtime win for Head Coach Leonard Hamilton's program - a collegiate basketball record for consecutive overtime victories. The Seminoles have won each of their overtime games since January 13, 2018 when they gained a double overtime win over Syracuse at home.
Florida State now holds the all-time national record for consecutive overtime victories. Tonight's victory put the Seminoles ahead of Louisville (1968-75), UMass (1991-96) and Virginia (1991-96) who all won 11 consecutive overtime victories.
The win was Florida State's 80th win in its last 84 home games, a streak that began with a 77-56 victory over Notre Dame on February 27, 2015. The Seminoles have a winning percentage of better than 95 percent on their home court since that win over the Fighting Irish.
Mills and Cleveland scored 17 each to pace five Seminoles in double figures in the victory.
Mills was credited with five assists and five steals, while sophomore Cam'Ron Fletcher scored 11 points. Redshirt senior Anthony Polite scored 11 points, totaled five rebounds and five assists, while Malik Osborne put up 10 points and a team-high seven rebounds.
In scoring two 3-pointers this evening, Fletcher is now four of seven (.571) from beyond the arc in the past two games. He averages 11.5 ppg in Florida State's victories over Missouri and Boston University.
Florida State was up 37-35 at half in what was the closest halftime lead for the Seminoles in their first six games. The Seminoles have led at half in each of their six games this season.
During the second half, the Seminoles maintained a close lead until Boston University's Anthony Morales made a 3-point shot at the buzzer to tie the game at 71.
Six of Cleveland's points came in the overtime, as he made the game-winning layup with 2.1 seconds left in the game. He has scored in double figures in four of the six games of his first collegiate season.
All three of Cleveland's baskets in the overtime period either tied the game - and in the end - proved to be the game winning basket. A Cleveland dunk at the 2:41 mark tied the game at 75 while a layup at the 2:16 mark tied the game at 77. His game winning basket came after Boston University took a three point lead on a layup (at the 1:52 mark) and one of two made free throws (at the 1:29 mark) by Sukhmail Mathon.
The Terriers scored the first four points of the overtime period and led 75-71 with 3:13 left to play.
From there, the Seminoles outscored Boston University by a 10-5 margin to win the game.
In addition to Cleveland's six points in overtime, Polite and Mills both contributed baskets as Florida State improved to 5-1. The Terriers are now 4-3.
The Seminoles shot .476 from the field and .400 from the 3-point line. With 12 steals against the Terriers, Florida State now has 35 steals in the past three games (11.7 spg) and has at least eight steals in his first six games of the season.
Boston University's Javante McCoy scored a team-high 22 points, while Mathon recorded a double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
1 Jaylen Warley g 16 1 2 0 0 1 2 3 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 2
2 Anthony Polite g 39 3 7 1 4 4 5 11 2 3 5 1 5 1 1 2
4 Caleb Mills g 36 5 13 1 1 6 7 17 0 0 0 4 5 2 0 5
10 Malik Osborne f 31 4 5 0 1 2 2 10 2 5 7 4 0 1 0 0
11 Tanor Ngom c 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1
15 Quincy Ballard 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 27 4 8 2 4 1 2 11 3 2 5 1 1 2 0 1
22 John Butler 12 2 4 1 3 0 0 5 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0
30 Harrison Prieto 8 2 3 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 11 1 6 1 2 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 33 8 15 0 0 1 2 17 3 4 7 3 3 3 2 1
Team 3 3
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FSU 5 225 30 63 6 15 15 20 81 11 21 32 18 16 12 4 12
Opp 225 27 56 9 27 17 20 80 10 24 34 18 14 19 1 4
| 1 | 2 | OT | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | ||||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Hoops Falls At No. 2 Purdue.
by Kennedy Knisley
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Sophomore Caleb Mills scored a team-high 22 points, and freshman John Butler scored 10 points, but the Florida State Seminoles were defeated by No. 2 Purdue, 93-65.
Mills contributed three steals while Butler pulled down five rebounds. The Noles' four-game winning streak against the Boilermakers ended this evening at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind.
Mills' three steals adds to his team-high of 17 steals for the Seminoles. This also marks his career-high of 2.4 steals per game average. Mills already beat his single-season high for steals at Houston which was 16 in 31 games during his first season.
Mills, Butler, and freshman Jalen Warley contributed six points at the half. Butler was two of three beyond the arc during the first half. Warley made his second career start against the Boilermakers, as both RayQuan Evans and Tanor Ngom were out for tonight's game.
Florida State went into the locker room at the half with a 48-32 deficit. It marked the first time this season that the Seminoles were down at halftime.
The Seminoles were unable to recover, as they shot 41.3 percent from the field and 33.3 percent from the three-point line throughout the entire game. With only 25 total rebounds, Florida State was out-rebounded 36-25. The Boilermakers shot 59.3 percent from the field and 48 percent from beyond the arc.
Florida State did record 25 points scored off turnovers while Purdue only had 12 points off turnovers.
Purdue's Jaden Ivey led five Boilermakers in double figure scoring with 18 points. Brandon Newman scored 13 points, Zach Edey scored 12 points, Isaiah Thompson scored 12 points, and Sasha Stefanovic scored 11 points.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
1 Jaylen Warley g 26 3 6 0 1 0 0 6 0 2 2 3 2 0 0 0
2 Anthony Polite g 27 2 6 1 4 0 0 5 2 1 3 2 5 5 0 1
4 Caleb Mills g 33 9 16 2 3 2 2 22 2 2 4 4 2 2 0 3
10 Malik Osborne f 34 2 5 0 2 2 2 6 2 2 4 2 0 0 0 1
22 John Butler f 21 4 7 2 4 0 0 10 1 4 5 1 0 4 0 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 20 2 9 2 5 0 0 6 0 2 2 2 2 1 0 0
30 Harrison Prieto 6 1 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1
31 Wyatt Wilkes 12 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 21 3 10 0 2 1 2 7 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 1
Team 3 3
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FSU 5 200 26 63 8 24 5 6 65 11 14 25 17 12 13 1 7
Opp 200 35 59 12 25 11 14 93 10 26 36 8 23 13 5 5
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| Purdue |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Basketball Falls to Syracuse, 63-60, in First Conference Game.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fl. - Redshirt sophomore Caleb Mills led the Seminoles with 16 points as they fell short to Syracuse, 63-60, in the first conference game of the season. Redshirt senior Malik Osborne contributed 10 points and pulled down eight rebounds against the Orange.
The loss ended Florida State's school-record of 25 consecutive home ACC wins - a streak that began on January 22, 2019. The Seminoles' 25 consecutive home victories now stands as the second longest in conference history behind Duke's 26 consecutive home wins from 1997-2000.
The Seminoles were up 32-24 at half and held the lead until Syracuse took over with 13 minutes remaining in the game. The Orange took the lead on a jump shot by Jimmy Boeheim (38-37) and stretched their lead to 11 with 5:43 left to play before the Seminoles staged a furious comeback.
Beginning with a free throw by Malik Osborne at the 5:02 mark, the Seminoles outscored Syracuse 16-8 to close the game but were unable to tie the game or take the lead in the closing seconds.
The Seminoles closed the gap to just one, 61-60, on a 3-point shot by Osborne.
The Orange increased their lead to 63-60 on two free throws by Cole Swider with 10 seconds remaining to be played.
Florida State had two chances to tie the game in the final second. A 3-point shot attempt by Mills looked like it would fall, but skipped off the rim. Osborne grabbed the offensive rebound, worked he way outside of the 3-point arc, and was just off line with a potential go-ahead basket as the buzzer sounded.
Redshirt senior Anthony Polite contributed six points, four rebounds, and two steals. Polite now has 99 career steals, only one away from 100 for his career. He has had at least one steal in every game this season and multiple steals in five of eight games.
Mills also had two steals and is averaging 3.3 steals per game in his last three games. The transfer from Houston is also averaging 18.3 points per game in those three games (17 against Boston University, 22 against Purdue, 16 against Syracuse).
Osborne made two 3-pointers and has made at least one 3-point shot in six of Florida State's first eight games this season. The senior also shot a perfect four of four from the free throw line and has made 10 consecutive free throws.
With 11 different Seminoles on the court throughout the game, Florida State outscored Syracuse in bench points, 25-1.
Senior RayQuan Evans put up nine points, pulled down six rebounds, and had three blocks in his first game back since the Seminoles' win against Missouri in the Jacksonville Classic.
Freshman Matthew Cleveland and junior Naheem McCleod contributed six apiece for the Seminoles. McCleod was a perfect three of three shooting from the field.
Redshirt senior Harrison Prieto came into the game early in the first half and scored four points. Prieto has scored 22 points in the first eight games of the 2021-22 season. He totaled 24 points in the first 22 games and five years of his career.
Syracuse's Joseph Girard and Buddy Boeheim led the team with 16 points apiece. Jimmy Boeheim contributed 13 points.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
1 Jaylen Warley g 15 1 2 0 0 1 1 3 0 2 2 2 2 1 1 1
2 Anthony Polite g 30 2 8 0 5 2 4 6 0 4 4 1 4 2 0 2
4 Caleb Mills g 38 7 13 2 5 0 0 16 2 2 4 2 3 1 0 2
10 Malik Osborne f 28 2 9 2 7 4 4 10 2 6 8 3 1 1 0 2
22 John Butler f 10 0 5 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0
0 RayQuan Evans 23 3 8 0 2 3 4 9 0 6 6 3 0 2 3 1
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 5 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0
24 Naheem McLeod 14 3 3 0 0 0 0 6 3 1 4 1 0 0 1 0
30 Harrison Prieto 10 2 2 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 10 0 5 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 17 2 6 0 2 2 3 6 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0
Team 3 4 7
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FSU 5 200 22 63 4 30 12 16 60 12 28 40 15 10 11 7 8
Opp 200 22 63 9 30 10 13 63 13 28 41 13 14 13 2 5
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syracuse | |||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Falls to South Carolina 65-66.
by Kennedy Knisley
ROCK HILL, S.C. - Malik Osborne led Florida State with 15 points as the Seminoles fell, 66-65, to South Carolina in the inaugural No Room for Racism Classic at the Rock Hill Sports and Event Center. Osborne came within one rebound of his fifth career double double with nine rebounds, and redshirt sophomore Caleb Mills scored in double figures with 13 points.
James Reese V and Devin Carter combined for 23 second-half points and South Carolina overcame a 16-point deficit to gain the neutral site win. Carter's bucket with three minutes left gave the Gamecocks (7-2) the lead for good. South Carolina held on when Malik Osborne missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer that would have given Florida State the win.
The Seminoles went into the locker room up 36-30 despite a six and a half minute field goal scoring drought late in the half. Florida State has led at the half in eight of their nine games this season.
The Seminoles lost their lead following a 12-0 run by the Gamecocks going into the under eight media media timeout in the second half. After a 3-point shot by Osborne and two from the line by Anthony Polite, the game was tied at 61. Florida State's 7-0 run was interrupted, and the Seminoles were down by one, 66-65, with just 10 seconds to go.
In scoring three from beyond the arc against South Carolina, Osborne is the Seminoles' leading 3-point shooter this season. The redshirt senior is shooting .538 (14 of 26) from the 3-point line and has made multiple 3-point shots in five of nine games this season.
With two steals this afternoon, Mills has an ACC-high 21 steals this season. He has as many steals in nine games in one season (21) as he did in 35 games and two seasons at Houston (21). Mills has also made 12 consecutive free throws, five of which came against the Gamecocks.
Polite approached double figure scoring with nine points and was a perfect six of six from the line. His single steal this afternoon was his 100th career steal.
Osborne, Mills, and RayQuan Evans had multiple steals with two apiece in contributing to the Seminoles' nine-steal team total. With a double-digit steals average (10.1 spg), Florida State leads the ACC in steals.
True freshmen Jalen Warley and John Butler contributed eight apiece on three of five shooting for each of them. Both also contributed a steal.
South Carolina's Carter led the team with 16 points, while Reese contributed 13 points on three of four shooting from the 3-point line.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 24 1 6 0 1 2 2 4 1 1 2 1 1 2 0 2
2 Anthony Polite g 24 1 4 1 3 6 6 9 1 3 4 3 4 0 0 1
4 Caleb Mills g 32 4 13 0 3 5 5 13 0 3 3 3 2 4 1 2
10 Malik Osborne f 33 4 8 3 6 4 6 15 3 6 9 2 0 1 1 2
22 John Butler f 23 3 5 1 3 1 2 8 1 4 5 3 0 3 0 1
1 Jaylen Warley 20 3 5 1 1 1 2 8 0 0 0 2 1 3 0 1
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
24 Naheem McLeod 9 1 1 0 0 1 3 3 2 2 4 2 0 0 1 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 14 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 17 2 7 0 2 1 2 5 2 1 3 3 0 2 0 0
Team 2 2
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FSU 5 200 19 51 6 21 21 28 65 10 23 33 21 8 17 3 9
Opp 200 26 59 4 14 10 20 66 14 27 41 22 7 17 2 7
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| South Carolina |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Defeats Lipscomb, 97-60.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Anthony Polite scored a career-high 25 points in leading the Seminoles to a 97-60 victory over Lipscomb at the Donald L. Tucker Center. Polite led five Seminoles in double-figure scoring, with Wyatt Wilkes contributing 13 points, Malik Osborne and Cam'Ron Fletcher with 12 apiece, and John Butler with 11 points.
Polite enjoyed an outstanding night as he totaled 25 points, three rebounds, a career-high tying five assists and four steals. He made 10 of 14 shots from the field, was two of three from the 3-point line, and was a perfect three of three from the free throw line. Polite was three points better than his 22-point performance against Colorado in the 2021 NCAA Tournament.
After a somewhat slow start, the Seminoles went took the lead for good at 17-16 with 12:04 remaining to be played in the first half on a Polite 3-point shot. The Seminoles finished the final 12 minutes of the first half on a 30-12 run and took a 44-28 lead over the Bisons at halftime. Florida State has led at half in nine of their ten games this season.
After a handful of threes, the Seminoles were up 60-31 at the first media timeout in the second half. Florida State made a season-high 14 3-point shots in gaining the win.
Eight Seminoles scored at least one 3-pointer during the game: RayQuan Evans (one of one), Polite (two of three), Osborne (two of three), Butler (three of four), Jalen Warley (one of two), Fletcher (one of four), Wilkes (three of seven), and Isaac Spainhour (one of two).
Florida State shot .529 from the field and an even better .538 from beyond the arc. Polite now has 90 career 3-point field goals made and needs only 10 more to become the 24th player in school history with 100 or more 3-point field goals made. The redshirt senior also had four steals against Lipscomb and has 104 career steals in 93 career games (1.1 spg average).
The Seminoles lead the ACC in steals with a 10.1 spg average this season. They have earned double figures in steals in five different games (15 against Penn, 14 vs. Loyola Marymount, 12 against Boston University, 10 against Missouri, and 10 against Lipscomb) and have at least seven in each of their 10 games this season.
Butler scored his career-high with 11 points against the Bisons. The freshman led the team in rebounds with seven and contributed two blocks. Both Butler and Wilkes had three from beyond the arc and led the team in 3-point shots made.
Osborne has scored in double figures in eight of the Seminoles' ten games this season and averages a career-high 11.8 points per game. The redshirt senior has scored in double figures in 31 career games.
Lipscomb's Jacob Ognacevic led the team with 20 points, and Kaleb Coleman contributed 10 points. The Seminoles outrebounded the Bisons by a 40-31 margin.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 21 3 4 1 1 0 0 7 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 2
2 Anthony Polite g 27 10 14 2 3 3 3 25 1 2 3 1 5 2 1 4
4 Caleb Mills g 21 3 5 0 0 2 2 8 0 3 3 2 6 1 0 1
10 Malik Osborne f 22 4 6 2 3 2 2 12 2 3 5 0 2 0 1 0
22 John Butler f 19 4 7 3 4 0 0 11 0 7 7 1 0 0 2 1
1 Jaylen Warley 21 1 3 1 2 1 3 4 0 3 3 2 2 1 0 1
12 Justin Lindner 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0
15 Quincy Ballard 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 1 0 2 2 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 20 5 8 1 4 1 2 12 0 5 5 0 1 1 0 0
24 Naheem McLeod 6 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0
30 Harrison Prieto 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 20 5 13 3 7 0 1 13 2 2 4 1 1 2 1 1
40 Isaac Spainhour 2 1 2 1 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
42 Cleveland Yates 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
44 Max Thorpe 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Team 1 1 2
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FSU 5 200 37 70 14 26 9 13 97 9 31 40 14 22 10 8 10
Opp 200 23 60 11 32 3 6 60 6 25 31 15 18 19 1 7
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lipscomb | |||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Defeats NC State 83-81.
by Kennedy Knisley
RALEIGH, N.C. - Redshirt senior Malik Osborne scored 12 of his 19 points in the second half and Florida State outscored NC State 16-14 in the final five minutes to take an 83-81 win over NC State at the PNC Arena. Sophomore Cam'Ron Fletcher scored a career-high 14 points while pulling down a career-high six rebounds. Fletcher and freshman Matthew Cleveland made big plays in the final minutes of the game to help the Seminoles to their first ACC road win of the season.
Cleveland earned his first career double double with 13 points and 10 rebounds.
The Seminoles survived a 32-point performance by Dereon Seabron to gain the win. Florida State was playing its first game in 17 days, its longest in-season layoff since the 1955-56 season. After defeating Lipscomb 97-60 on Dec. 15 the Seminoles had their next three games either canceled or postponed.
Both teams shot over 50 percent. NC State made 12 3-pointers, six more than FSU. The Seminoles' bench outscored NC State's 35-9. FSU outrebounded the Wolfpack 37-29 and had five more off the offensive glass in a matchup of the top two offensive rebounding teams in the ACC.
Neither team led by more than seven points and there were 14 lead changes.
The Seminoles took a 79-75 lead on two made free throws by Osborne with 54 seconds left to play. NC State's Terquavion Smith hit a 3-pointer to cut FSU's lead to 79-78. Florida State's Cleveland was fouled after an offensive rebound and made one of two free throws to put the Seminoles up 80-78 with 11 seconds left to be played.
NC State then called timeout with 8.4 seconds remaining. Immediately following the timeout by the Wolfpack, Fletcher stole the inbounds pass meant for Seabron and was fouled. He made the first free throw and missed the second but NC State's Jericole Hellems was called for a foul going for the rebound and Cleveland sank two more free throws to put the Seminoles up by an 83-78 margin.
Smith hit his seventh 3-pointer as the game ended to close the final gap.
Osborne has now scored in double figures in nine of the Seminoles' 11 games and averages a career-high 12.5 points. He has scored in double figures in 32 career games.
Redshirt sophomore Caleb Mills and Cleveland scored 13 points apiece. Cleveland led the team in rebounds with 10, earning his first career double-double. The freshman shot five of 10 from the field and three of five from the line.
Mills has scored in double figures in five of the last six games and is averaging 12.3 points scored per game.
After a slow start, the Seminoles led 43-41 at the half. Florida State has led at the half in 10 out of their 11 games this season.
Sophomore Naheem McLeod scored a career-high tying six points on three of three shooting all in the first half.
Seven Seminoles scored at least six points this game (RayQuan Evans, Anthony Polite, Mills, Osborne, Fletcher, McLeod, and Cleveland) and five Seminoles shot at least one triple (Polite, Mills, Osborne, Butler, Fletcher).
Florida State recorded nine steals against the Wolfpack and continues to lead the ACC with 10 steals per game.
Along with Seabron's 32 points and seven assists, Smith contributed 23 points for the Wolfpack.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 18 2 3 0 0 2 2 6 0 4 4 4 2 1 1 1
2 Anthony Polite g 30 2 8 1 4 2 3 7 2 1 3 3 1 0 2 1
4 Caleb Mills g 30 5 10 1 3 2 3 13 1 2 3 2 2 1 0 1
10 Malik Osborne f 31 5 10 2 4 7 8 19 1 6 7 0 0 1 0 1
22 John Butler f 12 1 5 1 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0
1 Jaylen Warley 16 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 2 2 2 4 2 0 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 23 6 8 1 1 1 3 14 2 4 6 1 0 6 0 3
24 Naheem McLeod 9 3 3 0 0 0 0 6 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 27 5 10 0 0 3 5 13 5 5 10 1 2 1 1 1
Team 1 1 1
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FSU 5 200 29 57 6 15 19 26 83 13 25 38 15 14 15 4 8
Opp 200 28 54 12 27 13 19 81 7 21 28 22 17 15 2 5
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| North Carolina State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Florida State Men's Basketball Falls To Wake Forest 76-54.
by Kennedy Knisley
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Freshman Matthew Cleveland led Florida State with 13 points as the Seminoles fell to Wake Forest, 76-54, at the Lawrence Joel Coliseum. Sophomore Caleb Mills scored in double figures with 10 points, while Malik Osborne led the Seminoles with eight rebounds.
Jake LaRavia scored 22 points and Alondes Wiliams added 20 as Wake Forest pulled away in the first half and maintained its lead throughout the second half. KHadim Sy added 16 points and a season-high 10 rebounds for the Demon Deacons.
Florida State started off the game with a six-point lead but could not recover following a 17-0 run in the first half by the Demon Deacons.
Cleveland, the ACC Freshman of the Week, shot three from the field and seven from the line. He has scored in double figures in six of the first 11 games of his career, and achieved his first career double-double against NC State on Saturday with 13 points and 10 rebounds. The freshman also contributed a career-high three steals.
The Seminoles got off to a slow start, scoring only 22 points and shooting .226 from the field in the first half.
Redshirt sophomore Caleb Mills scored in double figures with 10 points. He was a perfect six of six from the free throw line.
The Seminoles shot 20 of 25 (.800 percent) from the line.
In contributing a single steal this evening, Mills is ranked as Florida State's leader and ranked second in the ACC with 23 steals and a 1.9 steals per game average. In the first 12 games of his Florida State career, he has more steals (23) than he did during his 35-game career at Houston (21).
Osborne contributed a team-high eight rebounds and scoring six points against Wake Forest. Osborne is the Seminoles' second-leading leading scorer with an 11.9 points per game average this season.
Redshirt senior Anthony Polite continued to prove himself defensively with three steals. Polite is ranked seventh in the ACC with 22 steals and a 1.8 steals per game average.
The Seminoles totaled 16 steals while the Demon Deacons only had four steals. Florida State leads the ACC in steals with a total of 126 steals for a 10.5 steals per game. The Seminoles are the only team in the ACC who are averaging 10 or more steals per game.
Florida State's bench outscored Wake Forest's bench by a 29-20 margin.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 20 3 8 0 4 0 0 6 0 3 3 2 1 0 1 2
2 Anthony Polite g 27 1 8 1 6 0 0 3 1 4 5 3 0 3 1 3
4 Caleb Mills g 30 2 13 0 3 6 6 10 0 2 2 4 2 2 0 1
10 Malik Osborne f 32 2 8 0 4 2 2 6 1 7 8 0 0 0 0 1
22 John Butler f 13 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 2
1 Jaylen Warley 19 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 1
12 Justin Lindner 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
15 Quincy Ballard 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 12 2 7 1 2 0 0 5 1 2 3 2 0 1 0 2
24 Naheem McLeod 12 0 1 0 0 5 6 5 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 13 2 5 2 5 0 0 6 0 2 2 1 1 1 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 20 3 8 0 0 7 11 13 1 1 2 4 0 3 0 3
Team 1 1
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FSU 5 200 15 62 4 25 20 25 54 7 23 30 22 6 10 5 16
Opp 200 25 55 5 19 21 27 76 11 42 53 18 15 22 4 4
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| Wake Forest |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Defeats Louisville 79-70.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Redshirt sophomore Caleb Mills tied his career-high with 27 points to lead Florida State to a 79-70 victory over Louisville at the Donald L. Tucker Center. Florida State has now beaten Louisville in five straight games - its longest winning streak in the series that dates to 1968. The loss ended a three-game winning streak for the Cardinals.
Florida State has won 26 of its last 27 ACC home games since defeating Clemson on January 22, 2019.
Florida State freshman Matthew Cleveland, who entered averaging 9.9 points, finished with 17 points for the Seminoles. El Ellis scored 14 points to lead the Cardinals. Samuell Williamson added 13 points and Mason Faulkner 12 for the Cardinals.
Mills scored 23 first half points to help the Seminoles to a 50-40 lead at halftime. He averages 13.2 points scored per game and has scored in double figures in nine of Florida State's 13 games. He shot six of eight free throws and has made 52 of his last 58 career free throws (.900 percent).
Cleveland, the reigning ACC Freshman of the Week, is now averaging in double-figures with 10.5 points per game scoring average. He leads the ACC in scoring amongst all players who have not started a game this season.
Florida State started off strong in the first half and either led or were tied at each official timeout. Mills scored nearly half of Florida State's points with 23 in the first half, as the Seminoles went into the locker room up 50-40. The Seminoles' two turnovers in the first half marked the fewest turnovers in a half this season.
Florida State committed a season-low six turnovers in tonight's win over the Cardinals and forced 10 turnovers from Louisville.
Redshirt senior Anthony Polite neared a double-double with eight points and eight rebounds. He was a perfect four of four from the free throw line and is shooting .938 from the free throw line (15 of 16) in the last five games.
Polite contributed two of the Seminoles' five steals this evening. He is ranked fifth in the ACC for steals with a 1.8 steals per game average.
The Seminoles were up by just three (57-54) at the under eight-minute media timeout in the second half. That all changed after Cleveland made a shot clock beating shot from the 3-point line to put the Seminoles up 72-63 with 1:59 remaining in the game.
Five different Seminoles (Wyatt Wilkes, Mills, John Butler, Jalen Warley, and Cleveland), three of which are freshman, shot at least one three-pointer this evening.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 23 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0
2 Anthony Polite g 30 2 7 0 2 4 4 8 2 6 8 4 3 2 1 2
4 Caleb Mills g 24 9 16 3 5 6 8 27 0 4 4 4 1 1 0 0
10 Malik Osborne f 24 1 6 0 3 4 4 6 2 4 6 1 2 0 0 2
22 John Butler f 13 2 4 1 1 0 0 5 2 3 5 2 1 0 0 0
1 Jaylen Warley 17 2 3 1 2 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 11 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 1
24 Naheem McLeod 16 2 3 0 0 1 4 5 2 0 2 0 0 1 1 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 15 2 7 2 7 0 2 6 1 3 4 0 2 0 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 27 7 8 1 1 2 6 17 1 4 5 2 0 0 0 0
Team 2 2
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FSU 5 200 27 59 8 23 17 28 79 10 28 38 18 14 6 3 5
Opp 200 24 59 8 27 14 20 70 10 28 38 22 11 10 0 3
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | |||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Beats Miami 65-64 at Home.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida State's RayQuan Evans made two free throws with 0.8 seconds remaining to lift Florida State to a 65-64 win over ACC leading Miami at the Donald L. Tucker Center. Evans was fouled by Miami's Charlie Moore as he drove to the basket and made both free throws to give the Seminoles the win. Miami's last second attempt at a shot was taken after the final buzzer had sounded.
Florida State's victory marked its eighth consecutive win over the Hurricanes. The Seminoles have won each of the games played between the two teams since a 101-90 win over the Hurricanes on January 27, 2018. The Seminoles' win also snapped a nine-game winning streak for the Hurricanes, who entered the game with a perfect 5-0 record in ACC play.
The lead change hands three times in the final 27 seconds of the game.
Florida State's Malik Osborne hit a 3-pointer late in the shot clock to give FSU a 63-61 lead with 27 seconds left. Moore missed a driving layup on the other end, but Jordan Miller grabbed the offensive rebound off his own missed put-back attempt and kicked it out to Moore in the corner for a 3-point shot to give Miami a one-point lead with seven seconds to go. Evans was then fouled by Moore on a driving lay-up attempt and made the winning free throws.
Evans finished the game with 11 points, four rebounds, two assists and two steals. His two free throws to win the game were his first two free throws of the game.
Freshman Mathew Cleveland led Florida State with 15 points to mark his fourth consecutive double figure scoring effort. He is now averaging 10.8 points per game and is the ACC leader in scoring amongst all players who have not started a game this season.
In his 100th career game, Osborne scored seven points and pulled down eight rebounds. He is averaging a career-high 11.1 points and a career-high 7.3 rebounds. Osborne has scored in double figures in nine games and has pulled down seven or more rebounds in nine different games this season.
His 3-point shot with under 30 seconds remaining in the game was his first three of the game after two missed shots earlier in the game.
It was a game of rallies for the Seminoles who gained their third ACC win of the season.
Florida State rallied from an eight-point deficit at the under-twelve minute media timeout (15-7) and cut the Hurricane's lead to just one at the half at 29-28.
The second half was back and forth offensively and defensively on both ends as the Hurricanes maintained a lead through much of the half. Miami was up 61-58 with just 2:00 remaining in the game.
Redshirt senior Anthony Polite made two free throws and Osborne scored from long distance to put Florida State up 61-63 with 27 seconds remaining.
With a team eight steals, Florida State continues to lead the ACC in steals with a 9.9 steals per game average.
The Seminoles outscored the Hurricanes' bench by a 25-0 margin. Cam'Ron Fletcher, Naheem McLeod, Wyatt Wilkes, and Cleveland all contributed at least three points each off the bench.
Polite joined Evans and Cleveland in double figure scoring with 12 points and pulled down eight rebounds.
Miami's Moore scored a team-high 20 points, while Kameron McGusty scored 17 for the Hurricanes.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 28 4 8 1 3 2 2 11 1 3 4 0 2 2 0 2
2 Anthony Polite g 30 4 6 0 0 4 4 12 4 4 8 2 2 2 1 0
4 Caleb Mills g 28 2 10 0 5 0 0 4 0 2 2 1 4 3 0 2
10 Malik Osborne f 32 2 7 1 3 2 2 7 2 6 8 1 2 1 0 1
22 John Butler f 18 2 2 2 2 0 0 6 0 2 2 3 0 3 2 0
1 Jaylen Warley 12 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 4 3 1 0 0 2
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 11 1 3 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
24 Naheem McLeod 8 2 3 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 2 2 0 1 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 11 1 4 1 4 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
35 Matthew Cleveland 22 5 7 1 2 4 5 15 1 3 4 1 0 2 0 0
Team 1 1 2
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FSU 5 200 23 54 6 20 13 16 65 14 23 37 13 11 15 3 8
Opp 200 24 52 9 21 7 10 64 6 19 25 17 15 11 5 10
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami | |||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Florida State Men's Basketball Defeats Syracuse, 76-71.
by Kennedy Knisley
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Florida State's Caleb Mills led with 19 points as the Seminoles defeated Syracuse, 76-71, at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York. With five different Seminoles making at least one three-point shot, Florida State was .600 from the three-point line this afternoon against the Orange.
Mills shot five of six from beyond the arc, was a perfect two of two from the free-throw line, and had two steals against Syracuse.
The Seminoles have now won three straight ACC games including victories over Louisville (Jan. 8, 79-70) and Miami (Jan. 11, 65-64).
The first half started off slow for Florida State, as Syracuse was able to hold a steady lead for most of the half. After an 8-0 run by the Seminoles and three triples, Florida State went into the locker room down by just one, 37-36.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 30 5 9 2 4 3 3 15 1 2 3 2 5 1 0 2
2 Anthony Polite g 30 2 7 1 1 2 2 7 0 7 7 0 3 0 0 0
4 Caleb Mills g 32 6 9 5 6 2 2 19 0 2 2 1 5 3 1 2
22 John Butler f 9 1 2 0 1 0 2 2 1 1 2 3 2 1 0 0
24 Naheem McLeod c 12 2 3 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
1 Jaylen Warley 10 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
15 Quincy Ballard 13 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 10 1 4 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 3 2 1 0 0 0
30 Harrison Prieto 15 2 2 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
31 Wyatt Wilkes 19 4 8 3 6 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 20 4 5 0 0 1 4 9 0 3 3 2 1 1 0 0
Team 2 1 3 1
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FSU 5 200 28 51 12 20 8 13 76 5 20 25 15 21 10 2 7
Opp 200 24 51 7 17 16 19 71 8 21 29 14 14 12 3 2
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| Syracuse |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Defeats Duke 79-78 in OT.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - RayQuan Evans made two free throws with 12 seconds remaining and John Butler blocked a jump shot by Wendell More, Jr., with two seconds remaining, and Florida State won its NCAA record 13th consecutive overtime decision with a 79-78 win over No. 5 Duke at the Donald L. Tucker Center.
Caleb Mills led the Seminoles with 18 points, while Butler added a career-high 14.
The Seminoles outscored the Blue Devils by a 12-11 margin in the overtime period to win their 13th consecutive overtime game. The Seminoles' overtime winning streak dates back to a 101-90 double overtime win over Syracuse on January 13, 2018. Florida State has defeated 11 different teams during the overtime streak with its win over Duke marking its first over the Blue Devils during the streak.
The win was Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton's eighth all-time win over Duke. The win was also the Seminoles' first over a top-5 ranked team since a 69-69 win over Virginia on March 15, 2019 in the semifinals of the AC Tournament.
Florida State gained its first win over a nationally ranked opponent this season and snapped a five-game losing streak to the Blue Devils.
The Seminoles started the second half in a 38-33 hole at half but turned it around at the under 16-minute media timeout to lead by a 44-341 margin.
Sophomore Naheem McLeod started for the second time in his season and finished with a near a double-double with a career-high nine points and 10 rebounds.
However, it was Mills and Butler who led the way for the Seminoles. Mills contributed 18 points, two blocks, and two steals, while Butler had a career-high 14 points and blocked two shots for Florida State. Mills made two triples and was a perfect six of six from the free throw line.
The Seminoles were up 63-58 at the under four-minute media timeout in the second half, but Duke's Mark Williams scored four points in 1:28 to put the Blue Devils up 67-65. Evans made a layup with one second remaining in regulation, and Mills stole the ball back as the clock expired.
Mills opened up the extra period with a three-point shot. He scored eight of Florida State's 12 points in the overtime period.
Duke was up by one after two made free throws from Paolo Banchero, but Evans was fouled with 12 seconds remaining to put the Seminoles up for good.
Florida State had a season-low five turnovers and outrebounded Duke by a 42-37 margin. The Seminoles' bench also gained the upper hand this evening with 23 points compared to Duke's 13 points. Freshman Matthew Cleveland led Florida State's bench with eight points and six rebounds. He is the ACC leader in scoring (10.5 ppg) amongst all players who have not started a game this season.
With nine steals for Florida State in comparison to just two steals from Duke, the Seminoles continue to be the top ranked team in the ACC for steals with 154 steals and a 9.6 steals per game average. The Seminoles lead the ACC in both total steals and steals per game.
Duke's Banchero led the Blue Devils in all three major categories with 20 points, 12 rebounds, and seven assists.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 31 2 7 0 1 2 2 6 0 1 1 1 5 1 0 3
2 Anthony Polite g 31 2 7 1 4 4 4 9 2 3 5 2 1 1 0 1
4 Caleb Mills g 35 5 17 2 6 6 6 18 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2
22 John Butler f 27 5 8 3 4 1 2 14 0 2 2 3 0 0 2 0
24 Naheem McLeod c 11 4 8 0 0 1 2 9 6 1 7 0 0 0 0 0
1 Jaylen Warley 14 0 2 0 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 2
10 Malik Osborne 32 1 7 1 6 4 4 7 1 6 7 2 3 1 0 0
11 Tanor Ngom 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 16 3 6 0 2 0 0 6 3 1 4 2 0 0 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1
35 Matthew Cleveland 22 4 10 0 1 0 3 8 3 3 6 3 0 1 0 0
Team 3 3 6
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FSU 5 225 26 73 7 25 20 25 79 19 23 42 18 13 5 4 9
Opp 225 27 55 10 23 14 18 78 7 30 37 19 20 15 5 2
| 1 | 2 | OT | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke | ||||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Florida State Defeats UNF 86-73 At Home.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Caleb Mills and Matthew Cleveland scored 21 points each, and Tanor Ngom scored 13 points to lead Florida State to an 86-73 victory over UNF this afternoon at the Donald L. Tucker Center. It was the Seminoles' fifth consecutive win, with four coming in ACC play. Most recently, Florida State beat No. 5 Duke in overtime on Tuesday.
Mills scored eight of his 15 first-half points in the final five minutes to help Florida State go ahead by double figures. Cleveland started an 18-3 second-half run, to build a 74-56 lead for the Seminoles, by rebounding his missed free throw and dunking it.
North Florida stayed close by making 14 3-point shots but was undone by 19 turnovers that Florida State turned into 21 points. Cleveland had two of Florida State's 10 steals.
Ngom added a career-high 13 points in nine minutes for Florida State. Anthony Polite scored seven of his nine points in the final six minutes to help the Seminoles stay ahead by at least eight points.
Although the Seminoles had a slow start to the first half, they went into the locker room up 48-38.
Mills shot eight of 12 from the field (.667 percent) and was a perfect four of four from the free throw line. He has made 12 consecutive free throws dating back to the Seminoles' victory over Syracuse on January 15.
This afternoon was all about career-highs for one Seminole freshman. Matthew Cleveland grabbed his second career double double with a career-high 21 points and a career-high tying 10 rebounds. He also contributed a career-high four assists and shot a career-high eight of 16 from the field (.500 percent). Cleveland is the ACC leader in scoring (11.1 ppg) amongst all players who have not started a game this season.
Florida State's bench continued to excel with 43 points in comparison to 20 points from UNF's bench. Two of the Seminoles top three this afternoon came off of the bench.
With 10 steals for Florida State in comparison to just five steals from UNF, the Seminoles continue to be the top ranked team in the ACC for steals with 164 and a 9.6 steals per game average. The Seminoles lead the ACC in both total steals and steals per game.
Jarius Hicklen scored a season-high 27 points with six 3-pointers for North Florida. Emmanuel Adedoyin added 18 points, going 4 of 5 from 3-point range.
Hicklen's 3-pointer with 4:21 left in the first half pulled North Florida within 32-31, but Florida State scored the next 12 points and led 48-38 at the break. Seven of North Florida's 12 made field goals in the first half were from 3-point range.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 18 2 2 1 1 2 2 7 0 1 1 1 4 0 0 1
2 Anthony Polite g 23 4 7 0 3 1 2 9 1 3 4 2 1 2 0 2
4 Caleb Mills g 27 8 12 1 3 4 4 21 1 1 2 1 4 0 0 1
22 John Butler f 18 2 6 0 2 0 0 4 0 2 2 2 1 1 1 0
24 Naheem McLeod c 12 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 3 0 0 2 0 0
1 Jaylen Warley 22 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 2 2 2 1 1 0 2
11 Tanor Ngom 9 5 6 0 0 3 5 13 1 2 3 4 0 0 1 0
15 Quincy Ballard 8 1 2 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 4 1 0 1 1 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 0 1
30 Harrison Prieto 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 15 2 4 1 2 0 0 5 0 1 1 2 3 2 0 1
35 Matthew Cleveland 27 8 16 0 0 5 9 21 4 6 10 0 4 2 0 2
Team 2 2 4
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FSU 5 200 33 59 3 11 17 26 86 13 25 38 16 20 13 3 10
Opp 200 22 47 14 24 15 19 73 3 18 21 20 13 19 2 5
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Florida | |||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Defeats Miami 61-60.
by Kennedy Knisley
CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Caleb Mills scored a team-high 16 points while Anthony Polite scored 15 for Florida State and the Seminoles moved into a tie for first place in the ACC with a 61-60 win over Miami at the Watsco Center. The win gave Florida State a two-game regular season sweep of the Hurricanes for the fourth consecutive season.
The Seminoles have won nine straight games against the Hurricanes, including both ends of the series in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
The Seminoles' victory also marks Florida State's sixth straight win and fifth straight ACC win. The streak began with a 79-70 victory over Louisville on January 8.
In a near mirror-image contest, Florida State led 43-19 at halftime before the Hurricanes turned it around and outscored the Seminoles 41-18 in the second half.
In a game without any lead changes, the Seminoles gained their second consecutive one-point win over Miami. In the first meeting between the two teams, Florida State's RayQuan Evans made two free throws with 0.8 seconds left to play to give the Seminoles a 65-64 win. In Florida State's second win, Hurricane guard Isaiah Wong, who scored 18 of his game-high 22 points in the second half, missed a fadeaway jump shot at the buzzer that would have given Miami the win in front 7,972 fans.
Florida State scored the first basket of Saturday's game on a 3-point shot by Evans for a quick 3-0 advantage. The Seminoles never trailed, and the game was never tied from that point on.
The Seminoles had a dominant first half with several scoring runs culminated by a buzzer beating three-point shot from Wyatt Wilkes. Florida State was up 43-19 at the half.
Polite scored 13 of his points in the first half and was shooting a perfect five of five from the field in the first 20 minutes.
However, the second half was challenging for the Seminoles.
After a 12-0 run from the Hurricanes and a 4:35 scoring drought from Florida State, Miami cut the lead to just nine at 61-52 at the four-minute media timeout.
Miami closed the game with an 8-0 scoring run and outscored the Florida State by a 41-18 margin in the second half.
Malik Osborne had four points and a team-high eight rebounds, while both Polite and Matthew Cleveland pulled down seven rebounds apiece. The Seminoles outrebounded the Hurricanes by a 39-27 margin.
Mills, who shot seven of nine from the field (.778 percent) and had two blocks, is Florida State's leader in scoring (13.9 ppg), assists (2.8 apg) and steals (1.8 spg).
With two steals apiece for Jalen Warley, Osborne, and Wilkes, Florida State maintained its status as the ACC leaders in steals with a total of eight in comparison to Miami's seven. The Seminoles have 172 steals for an average of 9.6 steals per game.
Miami's Wong contributed a team-high 22 points, including three triples, while Charlie Moore and Kameron McGusty had 12 points apiece.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 27 3 4 1 1 0 0 7 0 2 2 2 4 2 0 1
2 Anthony Polite g 35 6 9 1 3 2 4 15 2 5 7 1 2 2 1 0
4 Caleb Mills g 32 7 9 0 1 2 2 16 0 3 3 1 1 7 2 1
22 John Butler f 12 1 4 0 2 0 2 2 1 3 4 2 1 1 1 0
24 Naheem McLeod c 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
1 Jaylen Warley 13 2 4 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 2
10 Malik Osborne 23 1 10 0 2 2 2 4 4 4 8 4 0 0 0 2
11 Tanor Ngom 7 2 2 0 0 2 2 6 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
30 Harrison Prieto 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 14 1 4 1 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
35 Matthew Cleveland 22 2 5 0 0 0 0 4 2 5 7 2 1 1 0 0
Team 2 1 3 4
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FSU 5 200 25 52 3 12 8 12 61 11 28 39 16 14 17 5 8
Opp 200 20 54 7 25 13 17 60 8 19 27 15 9 10 4 7
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| Miami |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Falls To Georgia Tech On The Road, 75-61.
by Kennedy Knisley
ATLANTA, Ga. - Anthony Polite scored 11 points and Naheem McLeod totaled a career-high 10 points as Florida State lost to Georgia Tech, 75-61, at McCamish Pavilion. The loss stopped a season-high six-game winning streak - including five consecutive wins in ACC play - for the Seminoles.
Florida State committed 17 turnovers and had five steals, as the Yellow Jackets were able to capitalize, leading the game for just over 25 of the 40 minutes played.
The Seminoles led for a majority of the first half until the under four-minute media timeout in which Georgia Tech led by three, 33-30. The Yellow Jackets closed the first half on a 19-7 run to take command of the game.
Florida State was down 53-42 at the under 12-minute media timeout in the second half but had an 8-0 run to close its deficit to 57-53. However, that was not enough for the Seminoles, as the Yellow Jackets responded late to secure the win.
Polite shot four of eight from the field (.500 percent) and contributed three triples. He also had a single block and a single steal. In the last three games, Polite is averaging 11.7 points (35 total points scored), shooting .583 from the field (14 of 24), and is shooting .667 from the 3-point line (six of nine).
McLeod, who has started in each of Florida State's last five games, pulled down seven rebounds, tying his career high. He shot four of six from the field (.667 percent) and two of three from the free throw line (.667 percent).
Led by freshman Jalen Warley with six points, the Seminoles' bench outscored Georgia Tech's bench by a 21-16 point margin. Warley shot .500 percent from the field, had four rebounds, and three assists this evening. The freshman is averaging 1.9 assists in the first 19 games of his Florida State career.
The Seminoles shot .410 percent from the field and .410 percent from the 3-point line, which was not enough in comparison to Georgia Tech's .440 percent shooting from the field. Florida State outrebounded the Yellow Jackets by a 38-31 margin.
Georgia Tech's Jordan Usher scored a team-high 19 points and totaled eight rebounds, while Michael Devoe contributed 15 points and five total rebounds for the Yellow Jackets.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 27 1 3 0 1 4 4 6 0 0 0 2 4 5 0 3
2 Anthony Polite g 26 4 8 3 3 0 0 11 2 2 4 3 0 3 1 1
4 Caleb Mills g 19 2 7 1 4 0 0 5 0 2 2 1 2 3 0 1
22 John Butler f 23 3 6 2 3 0 0 8 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 0
24 Naheem McLeod c 18 4 6 0 0 2 3 10 5 2 7 1 0 1 0 0
1 Jaylen Warley 21 3 6 0 2 0 0 6 1 3 4 3 3 3 0 0
10 Malik Osborne 19 1 5 0 2 1 3 3 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 0
11 Tanor Ngom 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 9 2 3 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 8 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 27 2 10 0 1 1 3 5 1 6 7 3 3 0 0 0
Team 2 5 7
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FSU 5 200 22 54 7 17 10 16 61 12 26 38 16 13 17 1 5
Opp 200 24 54 10 27 17 24 75 9 22 31 16 15 9 0 13
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| Georgia Tech |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Falls To Virginia Tech, 85-72.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Naheem McLeod scored a career-high 15 points, shooting a perfect seven of seven from the field, but the Seminoles fell to the incredible hot shooting Hokies of Virginia Tech, 85-72, at the Donald L. Tucker Center. Playing without three starters for the majority of the game, the Seminoles could not match Virginia Tech's 18 3-point field goals made and .720 shooting percentage from the three-point line.
Anthony Polite led the Seminoles in scoring with 17 points and six rebounds. He was five of eight from the field (.625 percent) and two of four from beyond the arc (.500 percent). Polite's second 3-points shot of the game in the second half gave him 100 for his career and allowed him to become the 24th player in school history with at least 100 three-point field goals.
The Seminoles started the game off slow, but went into the locker room at halftime only down 39-31.
A McLeod dunk at the 11:55 mark of the second half put Florida State ahead, 54-53. That lead proved to be their final lead of the game.
In his last six games, McLeod is averaging 6.7 points per game (40 total points) and 3.2 rebounds per game (19 total rebounds). He is shooting .692 from the field (18 of 26). He also made his only free throw attempt of the games.
With the score at 62-60 with 7:25 remaining, Virginia Tech went on a 14-0 run that was finished off by Cattoor's 3-point shot, to increase its lead to 76-60 with 4:39 remaining. Virginia Tech shot well from 3-point range in the second half, hitting nine shots to score 27 of its 46 points.
Freshman Jalen Warley scored seven points and had a career-high four steals. Warley also contributed a career-high six assists.
In contributing 10 points against the Hokies in his first career start, freshman Matthew Cleveland is averaging a near double double of 10.0 points and 7.3 rebounds in Florida State's last four games.
Florida State had seven steals, with Polite contributing three and Warley contributing four. The Seminoles outrebounded Virginia Tech by a 25-18 margin.
Virginia Tech's Hunter Cattoor had an outstanding performance, shooting nine of 11 from the three-point line in contributing 27 points. Sean Pedulla also scored in double figures with 20 points for the Hokies.
Cattoor's nine 3-point shots made tied Justin Robinson's single-game school record that was set on January 26, 2019. The 18 3-point shots set a new single-game ACC record for the Hokies.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
1 Jaylen Warley g 32 2 9 0 3 3 3 7 0 3 3 2 6 5 0 4
2 Anthony Polite g 37 5 8 2 4 5 6 17 2 4 6 0 3 2 0 3
11 Tanor Ngom c 10 2 3 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 1 4 0 2 1 0
22 John Butler f 22 3 4 2 3 0 1 8 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0
35 Matthew Cleveland g 34 3 11 0 1 4 4 10 1 4 5 1 3 1 0 0
4 Caleb Mills 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
15 Quincy Ballard 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 22 3 6 0 0 2 2 8 2 2 4 1 2 0 1 0
24 Naheem McLeod 23 7 7 0 0 1 1 15 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 14 1 3 1 2 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0
Team 3 3
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FSU 5 200 26 52 5 13 15 17 72 11 14 25 9 16 14 3 7
Opp 200 32 52 18 25 3 5 85 4 14 18 16 16 10 2 6
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Tech | |||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Falls at Clemson, 75-69.
by Kennedy Knisley
CLEMSON, S.C. - Caleb Mills scored a game-high 16 points and RayQuan Evans had 11 points as the Seminoles fell to Clemson at the Littlejohn Coliseum, 75-69. Mills totaled 16 points, three steals and two assists while Evans contributed 11 points and two steals for the Seminoles, who are now 3-3 on the road in ACC play.
Florida State pulled even twice in the game, but was unable to grab a lead. The Seminoles are now 13-8 and the Tigers are 11-9.
Florida State closed an eight-point deficit in the first half to tie Clemson 30-30 with 4:15 remaining in the half. Clemson closed out the half on a 15-6 run to take a 45-36 lead into the locker room at halftime. The Tigers made 17 of 28 field goal attempts (.607 percent) in the first half. The Seminoles outscored the Tigers in the second half (33-30) as they held the home team to .417 percent shooting from the field (10 of 24).
Florida State steadily worked its way back into the game in the second half and cut its deficit to two, at 69-67 on three straight point by Mills. Clemson made seven of its final eight free throws in the final 1:58 to seal the victory.
Redshirt senior Anthony Polite contributed a team-high five rebounds and scored five points for the Seminoles. He shot a perfect two of two from the line and is shooting .857 from the free throw line (24 of 28) in the last nine games. Polite had a single three-pointer and a single steal and is the 12th player in school history with at least 100 steals and at least 100 3-point shots made.
With nine steals against Clemson, the Seminoles remain the leaders in the ACC with 193 total steals and a 9.2 steals per game average. Mills contributed a team-high three steals, and Evans had two for the Seminoles.
Clemson's PJ Hall had a team-high 15 points, and both Nick Honor and Hunter Chase had 12 apiece for the Tigers. The Tigers shot 52 percent from the field and 40 percent from beyond the arc.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 26 4 8 1 3 2 3 11 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2
2 Anthony Polite g 23 1 2 1 2 2 2 5 1 4 5 3 2 2 0 1
4 Caleb Mills g 31 6 11 1 2 3 4 16 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 3
11 Tanor Ngom c 21 3 3 0 0 0 0 6 0 2 2 1 1 1 1 0
22 John Butler f 31 4 10 1 5 0 0 9 0 3 3 3 3 1 1 1
1 Jaylen Warley 14 0 3 0 1 1 4 1 1 0 1 2 3 0 1 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 7 2 3 1 2 0 0 5 0 3 3 2 1 2 0 0
24 Naheem McLeod 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
30 Harrison Prieto 16 2 3 1 2 0 0 5 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 9 1 3 1 3 0 0 3 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1
35 Matthew Cleveland 20 3 8 0 2 2 3 8 0 2 2 2 2 1 0 1
Team 2 2 4 1
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FSU 5 200 26 54 7 22 10 16 69 5 19 24 17 16 9 6 9
Opp 200 27 52 6 15 15 21 75 10 27 37 17 15 14 2 4
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| Clemson |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Falls to Wake Forest 68-60 on Alumni Weekend.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Redshirt senior Harrison Prieto scored a career-high 13 points and pulled down a career-high 13 rebounds to secure his first-ever double-double as the Seminoles fell to Wake Forest 68-60 at the Donald L. Tucker Center. Florida State played the game without starters Naheem McLeod, Malik Osborne and Anthony Polite who average a combined 24.2 points and 14.5 rebounds.
Jake LaRavia had a near triple-double, Alondes Williams scored 23 points, Damari Monsanto hit a clutch 3-pointer, and the Deacons held on to gain their fourth ACC road win of the season. LaRavia had 18 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists, missing out on a triple-double by one assist. Isaiah Mucius added 10 points for Wake Forest.
After falling behind by 11 with 11:58 remaining to be played in the second half, a 3-pointer by Caleb Mills drew Florida State within 57-56 with 3:51 remaining. Mucius struck back with a 3-pointer to give the Demon Deacons a 60-56 lead.
Cam'Ron Fletcher's layup kept Florida State within at 64-60 with 53 seconds remaining before Monsanto's clutch 3-pointer.
Wake Forest scored the final four points of the game to gain the ACC road win.
A slowed start hampered the Seminoles, who trailed by as many as seven in the first half and went into the locker room down 25-21 at the intermission.
Mills scored first for the Seminoles in the second half with a jump shot, and Fletcher scored on a layup to tie the game at 25-25.
However, the Seminoles were unable to hold on for a majority of the half and trailed by as many as 11 points.
Prieto made a career-high five field goals and was five of nine from the field (.556 percent). He added a three-point shot and a perfect two of two from the free throw line.
Mills led the team in scoring with 15 points and had a career-high three blocked shots.
The Seminoles continue to lead the ACC in steals with 208 for a 9.5 steals per game average. Six Seminoles had multiple steals: Mills, three; John Butler, two; Matthew Cleveland, three; Jalen Warley, two; Prieto, two; and Wyatt Wilkes, two.
Warley had two steals against Wake Forest, and is averaging 1.1 steals per game (24 steals in 22 games) and is one of four Seminoles (Mills, Polite, RayQuan Evans and Warley) who averages more than one full steal per game. Mills leader in steals for the Seminoles with a 1.8 steals per game average. The redshirt sophomore is also sixth in the ACC in steals per game average.
Freshman Matthew Cleveland scored in double figures with 11 points and just barely missed his third double-double with nine rebounds. Cleveland has scored in double figures ten times - with six of those double figure outings coming in ACC play (at NC State, at Wake Forest, vs. Louisville, vs. Miami, vs. Virginia Tech, and vs. Wake Forest).
Wake Forest's Alondes Williams scored a game-high 23 points, while LaRavia had 18 points and 13 rebounds for the Deacons.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 30 3 11 1 3 2 2 9 1 3 4 0 1 1 0 0
4 Caleb Mills g 30 6 16 1 4 2 3 15 0 1 1 4 4 4 3 3
11 Tanor Ngom c 13 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 3 1 0 2 1 0
22 John Butler f 8 0 4 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
35 Matthew Cleveland g 38 4 15 0 3 3 5 11 4 5 9 4 2 3 1 3
1 Jaylen Warley 19 1 4 1 1 2 2 5 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 2
12 Justin Lindner 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
15 Quincy Ballard 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 12 2 3 0 0 1 2 5 1 2 3 2 2 1 0 1
30 Harrison Prieto 26 5 9 1 3 2 2 13 8 5 13 2 1 0 0 2
31 Wyatt Wilkes 22 0 4 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 0 2
Team 2 2 4
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FSU 5 200 22 67 4 19 12 18 60 16 22 38 17 12 16 5 15
Opp 200 26 57 8 22 8 15 68 14 31 45 15 15 26 2 6
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wake Forest | |||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Falls to Pitt, 56-51.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Caleb Mills scored a team-high 19 points, and Matthew Cleveland scored 12 points as the Seminoles fell to Pittsburgh at the Donald L. Tucker Center.
Ithiel Horton scored 25 points, shooting 7 for 13 from 3-point range, and Pittsburgh beat the shorthanded Seminoles. Forward Malik Osborne is out for the season after ankle surgery, center Naheem McLeod is out after breaking bones in his right hand, which required surgery as well, and guard Anthony Polite also required surgery after suffering a fractured wrist.
Pitt led 21-20 at halftime as both teams struggled to score. The Panthers were 7-for-28 (25%) shooting while Florida State made just 5 of 28 attempts (17.9%) before intermission.
Florida State struggled to shoot as they shot .290 percent from the field, .290 percent from the three-point line, and .670 percent from the free throw line. Mills had four of the Seminoles' seven three-point shots and Cleveland had one.
Mills was four for eight from beyond the arc (.500 percent) and leads the Seminoles in three-point shooting with 29 3-point shots made this season.
Freshman John Butler led the team with two steals and pulled down six rebounds. Florida State had a team total of five steals this evening as they continue to lead the ACC in steals with 213 this season and a 9.3 steals per game average.
The Seminoles are on a school-record steals pace this season. The all-time Florida State record for steals in a game during a single season is 9.2 (322 steals / 9.2 spg) during the 1992-93 season.
Cam'Ron Fletcher scored nine points, including one from 3-point range, and pulled down a team-high tying seven rebounds.
Pitt's Horton scored his 25 points in shooting seven of 13 from the three-point line. Mouhamadou Gueye helped out defensively with eight blocked shots.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 25 2 6 0 1 0 0 4 1 1 2 4 5 2 0 0
4 Caleb Mills g 34 6 16 4 8 3 5 19 0 3 3 2 1 2 0 0
11 Tanor Ngom c 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 0
22 John Butler f 26 0 2 0 2 2 2 2 0 6 6 5 1 1 1 2
35 Matthew Cleveland g 35 4 13 1 3 3 4 12 3 4 7 2 1 3 0 1
1 Jaylen Warley 17 0 2 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 1
15 Quincy Ballard 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 1 0 0 1 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 17 3 7 1 3 2 2 9 0 7 7 3 1 3 0 0
30 Harrison Prieto 18 0 5 0 3 1 3 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 15 1 5 1 4 0 0 3 2 1 3 1 0 0 1 1
Team 3 3 6
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FSU 5 200 16 56 7 24 12 18 51 10 31 41 23 11 13 4 5
Opp 200 18 54 8 25 12 24 56 12 29 41 16 9 11 9 2
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh | |||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Basketball Falls to UNC, 94-74.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Cam'ron Fletcher scored a career-high, double-double of 16 points and 10 rebounds, along with a team-high 4 steals. This is the first double-double of his career. Matthew Cleveland and RayQuan Evans each scored 13 points as the Seminoles fell to North Carolina, 74-94, at the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Caleb Love scored 18 points, shooting 6 for 8 from 3-point range.
Injuries include forward Malik Osborne, who is out for the season after ankle surgery, center Naheem McLeod is out after requiring surgery for his right hand, and guard Anthony Polite also required surgery for a fractured wrist.
North Carolina led 62-24 at halftime. The Tarheels were 23-for-31 (74.2%) shooting while Florida State made just 9 of 30 attempts (30%) before intermission.
The Seminoles outscored UNC 50-32 in the second half, scoring 17 points off the bench, and 22 points in the paint.
Florida State struggled to shoot as they shot 38.8 percent from the field, 47.4 percent from the three-point line, and 65 percent from the free-throw line. Jalen Warley shot a perfect 2 for 2 from the free-throw line.
RayQuan Evans led the team with four assists and John Butler tied his season-high of 7 rebounds. Florida State totaled 9 steals this afternoon against the Tarheels, keeping their lead in the ACC for steals, with 222 this season.
North Carolina's Bacot scored 17 points in shooting, along with 14 rebounds. Manek and Davis helped out offensively contributing 16 points apiece.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 25 5 12 1 2 2 3 13 2 2 4 1 4 0 0 1
4 Caleb Mills g 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
11 Tanor Ngom c 13 2 4 0 0 4 6 8 2 0 2 2 0 1 0 0
22 John Butler f 28 3 11 2 4 1 1 9 2 5 7 2 1 0 2 0
35 Matthew Cleveland g 27 4 9 1 1 4 6 13 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 2
1 Jaylen Warley 22 2 8 1 2 2 2 7 0 1 1 0 3 2 1 2
15 Quincy Ballard 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 28 7 14 2 5 0 0 16 3 7 10 4 1 5 0 4
30 Harrison Prieto 23 1 3 1 2 0 0 3 1 2 3 3 1 1 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes 23 2 5 1 3 0 0 5 1 2 3 2 2 1 0 0
Team 2 2 1
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FSU 5 200 26 67 9 19 13 20 74 15 19 34 15 12 13 4 9
Opp 200 37 67 12 28 8 13 94 13 27 40 16 22 16 5 7
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| North Carolina |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Defeats Clemson 81-80.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - RayQuan Evans shot the game-winning free throw with 14 seconds left in leading the Seminoles to an 81-80 win over Clemson at home this evening. Evans scored a career-high 28 points and the Seminoles snapped their six-game losing streak.
Florida State was down 78-74 with 1:19 remaining when Nick Honor was called for his fourth foul of the game for Clemson. Evans made both free throws to cut the Seminoles' deficit to two, at 78-76. Clemson's PJ Hall was fouled and made bot of his free throws to put the Tigers up by four points at 80-76.
Florida State then scored five consecutive unanswered points to win the game and gain their nation's-leading fifth one-point win of the season.
After another set of made free throws by Evans, Florida State was down by two at 80-78 with 0:52 remaining.
Evans tied the game on a jumper, and was fouled by Honor and marched back to the line with 0:14 to go. His shot from the line was good and the Seminoles gained the win.
Clemson's Alex Hemingway missed a contested look at a potential game-winning corner 3 that bounced off the back of the iron as time expired. Clemson has lost five games in a row.
Evans shot seven of 13 from the field (.538 percent) and 12 of 13 from the line (.923 percent). The redshirt senior has scored in double figures six times this season and averages 8.3 points per game. He is shooting .921 from the free throw line (35 of 38) in his last 15 games, dating to December 12 against South Carolina.
Evans has scored the winning points in three games this season. The senior hit two free throws with 0.8 seconds left to lift the Seminoles to a 65-64 win over Miami on Jan. 11 and made a layup with 2 seconds left in regulation to make it 67-67 and force overtime before he hit two free throws with 12 seconds left in OT that gave FSU a 79-78 victory over then-No. 5 Duke on Jan. 18.
Cam'Ron Fletcher scored a career-high 17 points and pulled down a team-high eight rebounds. Fletcher has scored in double figures in seven different games this season with 14 or more points coming in ACC play against NC State (14 points on January 1), North Carolina (16 points on February 12) and Clemson (17 points on February 15).
The Seminoles shot .421 from beyond the arc with at least one three-point shot from five different Seminoles (Evans with two, John Butler with one, Wyatt Wilkes with two, Justin Lindner with one, and Fletcher with two).
Both Butler and Tanor Ngom had three blocks apiece and Evans and Fletcher contributed two steals each.
Clemson's PJ Hall scored a team-high 28 points and Al-Amir Dawes had 18 points for the Tigers. Clemson shot .222 percent from the three-point line and .386 from the field.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 33 7 13 2 3 12 13 28 0 3 3 2 4 0 0 2
11 Tanor Ngom c 23 1 3 0 1 4 4 6 2 2 4 4 1 0 3 0
22 John Butler f 20 1 4 1 2 1 2 4 1 5 6 4 1 1 3 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes f 30 2 7 2 6 0 0 6 0 2 2 4 3 3 0 1
35 Matthew Cleveland g 30 6 13 0 0 1 2 13 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 0
1 Jaylen Warley 20 2 3 0 0 0 1 4 0 1 1 3 4 3 0 0
12 Justin Lindner 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
15 Quincy Ballard 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 27 4 10 2 6 7 8 17 3 5 8 1 1 0 0 2
30 Harrison Prieto 13 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Team 1 1 2
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FSU 5 200 24 55 8 19 25 30 81 7 22 29 22 14 8 6 5
Opp 200 22 57 6 27 30 36 80 14 27 41 24 14 10 2 5
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clemson | |||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Falls at Duke, 88-70.
by Kennedy Knisley
DURHAM, N.C. - Jalen Warley scored a career-high 15 points and pulled down a career-high seven rebounds as the Seminoles fell to No. 9 Duke, 88-70, at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The Seminoles were without five starters against the Blue Devils including Malik Osborne (10.0 ppg, 6.9 rpg), Anthony Polite (9.7 ppg, 5.5 rpg), RayQuan Evans (7.5 ppg, 1.8 rpg), Caleb Mills (12.7 ppg, 2.3 rpg) and Naheem McLeod (4.5 ppg, 2.1 rpg).
Warley shot .600 percent from the field (six of 10) and .667 from beyond the arc (two of three). His two triples mark a career-high for the freshman. He is ranked second on the team with a 2.0:1 assist to turnover ratio, third on the team with 62 assists, and fourth on the team with 28 steals.
Freshman Matthew Cleveland led with 16 points on seven of 13 shooting from the field (.538 percent). Cleveland has scored in double figures in the past five games and averages 13.0 ppg during this streak.
Florida State was down by just one point late in the first half after a three-point shot from Wyatt Wilkes with 3:26 to go. However, a 12-2 run by the Blue Devils put them up 52-41 going into the locker room.
The Seminoles shot .586 from the field and .429 from the three-point line during the first half.
After the intermission, Florida State got within eight points early in the second half but could not close the gap by any more for the rest of the game.
Sophomore Cam'Ron Fletcher scored 12 points and had six rebounds this evening. He has scored in double figures in the past three games and is averaging 15.0 ppg during this span. Fletcher also contributed two steals (totaling 23 for the season) and is one of five Seminoles with at least 20 steals this season.
Duke's Paolo Banchero led with 17 points while pulling down eight rebounds. All five starters for the Blue Devils scored in double figures this evening. Both teams committed 11 turnovers but the Seminoles were outrebounded 41-23.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
1 Jaylen Warley g 35 6 10 2 3 1 2 15 0 7 7 2 6 2 0 1
11 Tanor Ngom c 18 4 7 1 3 2 3 11 0 3 3 3 0 2 1 0
22 John Butler f 15 2 6 0 2 0 0 4 1 0 1 3 1 0 1 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes f 29 3 6 2 5 0 0 8 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 2
35 Matthew Cleveland g 38 7 13 0 0 2 4 16 1 1 2 3 3 0 1 0
12 Justin Lindner 9 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0
15 Quincy Ballard 8 2 2 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 33 4 9 1 3 3 4 12 3 3 6 2 3 1 0 2
30 Harrison Prieto 13 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
40 Isaac Spainhour 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
44 Max Thorpe 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
Team 1 1 2
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FSU 5 200 28 56 6 19 8 13 70 6 17 23 15 16 11 3 5
Opp 200 32 62 11 28 13 17 88 15 26 41 13 25 11 6 8
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| Duke |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Falls at Boston College, 71-55.
by Kennedy Knisley
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Matthew Cleveland scored a team-high 18 points and pulled down a team-high eight rebounds as Florida State fell at Boston College, 71-55, this evening. Cam'Ron Fletcher also scored in double figures with 16 points and contributed a team-high four steals. Fletcher has scored in double figures in a career-high four consecutive games.
The Seminoles were down four starters this evening including Malik Osborne (10.0 ppg, 6.9 rpg), Anthony Polite (9.7 ppg, 5.5 rpg), Caleb Mills (12.7 ppg, 2.3 rpg) and Naheem McLeod (4.5 ppg, 2.1 rpg).
Florida State was down 32-24 at the half, with Cleveland scoring 10 points and contributing seven of his eight rebounds before intermission. At the start of the second half, RayQuan Evans scored a layup and got the "and one" to bring the Seminoles within five points of Boston College. However, Florida State could not close the gap by any more than that for the remainder of the game.
In a game with back and forth scoring droughts, the Seminoles shot .339 from the field and .211 from the three-point line. The Seminoles did not lead at any point this evening.
Tanor Ngom had a career-high three steals in contributing to the team total of 10 steals. With 242 total steals and a 9.0 spg average, Florida State continues to lead the ACC in steals.
Florida State totaled six blocked shots and is third in the ACC with an average of 4.4 bpg this season. The Seminoles are the only team in the ACC that is ranked in the top three for both steals and blocked shots.
Boston College's Jaeden Zackery led the Eagles with 18 points while James Karnik had 16 points and Brevin Galloway contributed 14 points this evening.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 22 1 5 0 3 1 1 3 0 0 0 2 0 5 0 0
11 Tanor Ngom c 19 1 3 0 1 2 2 4 3 1 4 0 0 2 0 3
22 John Butler f 27 1 9 1 5 0 0 3 3 3 6 1 0 1 3 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes f 21 2 5 2 4 0 0 6 1 1 2 4 2 3 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland g 37 7 18 0 2 4 6 18 1 7 8 2 0 2 0 0
1 Jaylen Warley 26 1 6 1 2 2 2 5 1 2 3 1 6 3 0 3
12 Justin Lindner 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0
15 Quincy Ballard 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 26 6 10 0 2 4 4 16 3 2 5 1 1 1 0 4
30 Harrison Prieto 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
40 Isaac Spainhour 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Team 3 2 5 1
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FSU 5 200 19 56 4 19 13 15 55 15 18 33 11 11 19 6 10
Opp 200 28 58 11 26 4 5 71 12 23 35 14 17 18 1 14
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| Boston College |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Cleveland's Buzzer-Beater Three Propels Noles to 64-63 Win Over Virginia.
by Kennedy Knisley
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Matthew Cleveland made a long three-point shot as the clock expired to give Florida State a 64-63 win over Virginia in the last road game of the season. Cleveland led with 20 points for his seventh consecutive double-figure scoring game.
Cleveland made a driving layup with six seconds remaining to tie Virginia 61-61. However, Virginia's Armaan Franklin responded with a jump shot to give them the edge with a second remaining. Florida State's Harrison Prieto threw the half-court pass to Cleveland who made the shot to give the Seminoles the one-point win.
The Seminoles lead the nation with six single-point victories this season, five of which came in ACC play.
Florida State shot eight of eight from the field in the last five minutes of the game and ended on an 18-7 run. Cleveland scored 10 of his 20 points in the last 2:06 of the game.
Prieto scored a career-high 14 points and led the team with six rebounds. He was six of eight shooting from the field (.750 percent) and a perfect two of two from the three-point line. His previous career-high came against Wake Forest as he grabbed the first double-double of his career with a 13 point, 13 rebound performance.
Virginia's Jayden Gardner led with 21 points and Francisco Caffaro led with 11 rebounds.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
== ==================== == === === === ==== ==== === === === ==== ==== === == === == === ===
0 RayQuan Evans g 30 2 7 0 1 2 2 6 0 5 5 3 2 2 0 1
11 Tanor Ngom c 11 3 5 1 1 0 0 7 2 2 4 2 0 1 0 1
22 John Butler f 29 3 6 0 1 1 1 7 2 2 4 1 1 0 1 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes f 24 1 6 0 3 0 0 2 0 2 2 1 1 1 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland g 37 8 14 1 2 3 7 20 1 2 3 1 1 2 1 1
1 Jaylen Warley 25 3 7 0 1 0 0 6 1 2 3 2 2 2 2 1
15 Quincy Ballard 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 15 1 4 0 1 0 0 2 1 3 4 4 0 2 3 0
30 Harrison Prieto 27 6 8 2 2 0 2 14 3 3 6 1 2 0 2 0
Team 3 3 2
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FSU 5 200 27 57 4 12 6 12 64 13 21 34 15 9 12 9 4
Opp 200 22 56 4 17 15 19 63 13 19 32 15 10 10 6 5
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| Virginia |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Defeats Notre Dame 74-70.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Freshman John Butler scored a career-high 16 points and pulled down a career-high eight rebounds as the Seminoles defeated Notre Dame 74-70 at the Donald L. Tucker Center. RayQuan Evans made two free throws with nine seconds remaining to seal the victory for the Seminoles.
Florida State's victory marks its sixth consecutive home win against the Fighting Irish. The Seminoles have not lost a game to Notre Dame in Tallahassee in the history of the series.
The Seminoles were without ACC Freshman of the Week and second-leading scorer Matthew Cleveland, who was sidelined by a non-COVID illness. Cleveland had a last-second 3-pointer to beat Virginia 64-63 in FSU's previous game. FSU did get Polite back after he missed the last seven games following surgery for a fractured wrist, and he came through with a 3-pointer for a five-point lead with 46.8 seconds left.
Four Seminoles scored in double figures, including Evans (12 points), Polite (12 points), and Tanor Ngom (12 points).
Florida State led for 27 minutes of the game, but was down 44-39 going into the locker room at half.
Six different Seminoles scored at least one three-pointer (Butler, 4; Evans, two; Polite, two; Wyatt Wilkes, two; Harrison Prieto, one and Cam'Ron Fletcher, one) as Florida State made 12 3-pointers and shot a combined .414 percent from beyond the arc.
In making 12 of 29 from the arc, Florida State matched its highest total in an ACC game this season. Notre Dame missed all 10 of its second-half 3-point tries.
Warley had four assists in the win as he continues to be Florida State's leader in assists with 74 and a 2.6 assists per game average. Butler totaled a career-high four blocks and leads the team with 31 total blocks this season. Butler is looking to become the second freshman in the last three seasons to lead Florida State in blocked shots.
The Seminoles totaled eight blocks and seven steals, with Evans and Warley contributing two steals each, and Wilkes blocking two shots. Florida State is second in the ACC with an 8.7 steals per game average.
Notre Dame, the leading three-point field goals made team in the ACC, shot a below average it made just five of 19 from beyond the arc (.263 percent). Blake Wesley led Notre Dame with 21 points, while Paul Atkinson, Jr. had a double double of 17 points and 10 rebounds.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
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0 RayQuan Evans g 34 4 14 2 4 2 2 12 0 7 7 0 5 1 0 2
2 Anthony Polite g 25 4 10 2 4 2 2 12 1 2 3 0 2 0 0 1
11 Tanor Ngom c 20 5 8 0 2 2 2 12 3 2 5 2 1 2 1 1
22 John Butler f 28 6 11 4 5 0 2 16 2 6 8 1 0 1 4 1
31 Wyatt Wilkes f 25 2 7 2 7 0 0 6 0 4 4 1 4 1 2 0
1 Jaylen Warley 27 0 5 0 2 0 0 0 1 4 5 2 4 2 1 2
21 Cam'ron Fletcher 22 4 8 1 2 0 0 9 2 3 5 2 0 2 0 0
30 Harrison Prieto 19 3 5 1 3 0 0 7 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0
Team 3 1 4
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FSU 5 200 28 68 12 29 6 8 74 12 30 42 10 16 9 8 7
Opp 200 30 69 5 19 5 9 70 12 26 38 10 10 8 0 3
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notre Dame | |||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Defeats NC State, 89-76 on Senior Day.
by Kennedy Knisley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Caleb Mills scored 19 points and Anthony Polite earned a double double of 14 points and 10 rebounds to lead Florida State to an 89-76 win over NC State on Senior Day at the Donald L. Tucker Center. Florida State never trailed as it closed out its regular season with a 10-10 mark in ACC play.
Florida State scored the first four points of the game and never trailed. The game was tied on two different occasions (6-6 at the 16:17 mark of the first half and 8-8 at the 15:21 mark of the first half). A fast break lay-up by Florida State's Matthew Cleveland (11 points) at the 14:11 mark put the Seminoles ahead for good. The Seminoles led by as many as 17 with just under eight minutes to play in the game (73-56) as they did not surrender the lead in the second half.
Mills, Polite, and Matthew Cleveland played against NC State after recent injuries and illnesses. Cleveland scored 11 points, had two blocked shots, and one steal. Polite had two steals and totals 121 for his career. He needs four steals to become the 25th player in school history with 125 career steals.
Senior RayQuan Evans scored five points and a career-high 10 assists, while Ngom pulled down a career-high seven rebounds and scored 10 points.
Six seniors were honored this afternoon before the last regular season game of the year. Evans, Polite, Ngom, Justin Lindner, and Wyatt Wilkes started against NC State and senior Harrison Prieto got significant minutes in scoring seven points and pulling down five rebounds.
Florida State shot .520 percent from the field and .360 percent from the three-point line while outrebounding the Wolfpack 39-32. The Seminoles' bench outscored the Wolfpack's bench by a 53-4 point margin. Florida State also recorded nine blocks and six steals while NC State only had three apiece.
NC State's Terquavion Smith scored 30 points, while Jerricole Hellems had 21 points and led the Wolfpack with seven rebounds. Dereon Seabron scored 17 points and had five assists.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
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0 RayQuan Evans g 28 2 3 1 1 0 0 5 0 5 5 1 10 2 1 1
2 Anthony Polite g 26 5 11 2 6 2 4 14 3 7 10 2 3 0 0 2
11 Tanor Ngom c 16 2 7 0 1 6 6 10 4 3 7 4 0 2 2 0
12 Justin Lindner g 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes f 15 3 7 1 5 0 0 7 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0
1 Jaylen Warley 17 2 5 1 3 0 0 5 1 0 1 4 3 0 1 2
4 Caleb Mills 18 7 8 0 0 5 5 19 0 3 3 0 2 2 0 0
15 Quincy Ballard 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
22 John Butler 29 3 8 2 5 3 4 11 0 3 3 3 1 0 3 0
30 Harrison Prieto 17 3 4 1 1 0 0 7 2 3 5 3 0 0 0 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 28 5 9 0 0 1 2 11 0 2 2 2 1 2 2 1
Team 1 1
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FSU 5 200 32 62 8 22 17 21 89 10 29 39 20 21 8 9 6
Opp 200 23 59 11 25 19 26 76 11 21 32 15 6 8 3 3
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina State | |||
| Florida State |
From the FSU Website, seminoles.com.
Men's Basketball Falls to Syracuse In Round 2 of the ACC Tournament.
by Kennedy Knisley
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Cole Swider scored 28 points to led four players in double figures and Syracuse defeated Florida State, 96-57, in the second round of the ACC Tournament at the Barclays Center.
Seminole freshman and ACC Sixth Man of the Year Matthew Cleveland led Florida State with 13 points. Redshirt senior Anthony Polite pulled down a team-high seven rebounds.
Syracuse began the game hot and shot the ball well throughout the game. The Orange led the game, 49-26, at the half after shooting .531 percent from the field and making seven of 15 3-point field goals.
Redshirt senior Tanor Ngom scored nine points for the Seminoles while Polite contributed eight points. Nine of Cleveland's 13 points came in the second half.
Syracuse, one of the top three-point shooting teams in the ACC, shot a total .393 percent from beyond the arc and .514 percent from the field for the game. The Seminoles held Syracuse to just four triples in the second half.
The Seminoles had the advantage on blocks with seven and contributed five steals. With a 4.9 bpg average and an 8.5 spg average, the Seminoles are the only team in the ACC that is ranked in the top five for both steals and blocked shots, coming in second for both statistics.
NO NAME GS MIN FGM FGA 3FGM 3FGA FTM FTA PTS OREB DREB REB PF AST TO BLK STL
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0 RayQuan Evans g 26 1 7 0 3 2 2 4 1 3 4 2 5 1 0 3
2 Anthony Polite g 27 2 7 0 2 4 4 8 3 4 7 2 3 0 2 0
11 Tanor Ngom c 13 4 6 0 0 1 2 9 2 2 4 1 0 2 0 0
22 John Butler f 26 2 8 1 4 1 2 6 1 4 5 3 2 1 2 0
31 Wyatt Wilkes f 15 1 4 0 3 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1
1 Jaylen Warley 18 1 3 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1
4 Caleb Mills 24 2 11 1 7 0 0 5 0 3 3 1 2 1 0 0
12 Justin Lindner 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Quincy Ballard 4 1 2 0 0 2 2 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
30 Harrison Prieto 15 2 6 0 1 0 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
35 Matthew Cleveland 29 6 13 0 2 1 2 13 2 1 3 2 1 2 1 0
40 Isaac Spainhour 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
44 Max Thorpe 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Team 2 2 4
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FSU 5 200 22 68 2 25 11 16 57 13 22 35 11 16 8 7 5
Opp 200 38 74 11 28 9 12 96 15 37 52 14 23 7 5 6
| 1 | 2 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State | |||
| Syracuse |