{"id":70231,"date":"2025-11-26T04:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70231\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T04:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:58:07","slug":"wiggins-leads-seminoles-to-5-1-record-with-89-59-victory-over-cal-state-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70231\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiggins Leads Seminoles To 5-1 Record With 89-59 Victory Over Cal State Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

TALLAHASSEE –\u00a0Chauncey Wiggins<\/a>\u00a0led all scorers with 17 points, and\u00a0Martin Somerville<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Robert McCray V<\/a>\u00a0added 14 points each in Florida State’s 89-59 win against the CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners at the Donald L. Tucker Center. Wiggins, Somerville, and McCray V led four Seminoles in double figures as senior\u00a0Alex Steen<\/a>\u00a0earned the first double-double of his Florida State career with 13 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Florida State improved its\u00a0record to 5-1 and as it won its third consecutive game overall and its third consecutive game at home. The Seminoles have won all five of their home games.\u00a0The Roadrunners fall to\u00a03-4.<\/p>\n

Florida State forced 28 turnovers, 13 of which were Florida State steals, and scored 40 points off of those turnovers. The Seminoles’ 40 points off turnovers set a new season-high, besting the previous high of 33 against UT Martin on Nov. 18, 2025.<\/p>\n

Wiggins\u00a0led Florida State in scoring for the second time this season and tied his season high with three 3-point shots made. Wiggins added six rebounds and one steal to his all-around performance.<\/p>\n

McCray V’s 14 points mark\u00a0the fifth game that he has finished with double-digit scoring and added four assists to his total, as well.<\/p>\n

Freshman\u00a0Cam Miles<\/a>\u00a0finished with a game-high seven assists. Miles’ seven assists also set\u00a0a career high, topping his previous high of five assists, which he set against Georgia Southern on November 21.<\/p>\n

CSUB led the game 8-4 with 15:00 minutes left in the first half. A quick 5-0 spurt gave the Seminoles their first lead of the game at 9-8 at the 13:50 mark. Senior\u00a0Shah Muhammad<\/a>\u00a0recorded his first two points of the season to give the Seminoles their first lead of the game.<\/p>\n

Over the next two minutes, Florida State went on an 8-0 run to extend their lead out to nine at 19-10. Five of Florida State’s points during that run came from freshman\u00a0Thomas Bassong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition to Bassong’s five points, he finished with two rebounds and a block.<\/p>\n

Steen scored a buzzer-beater layup to end the first half and gave the Seminoles an 11-point lead, 35-24.<\/p>\n

Steen recorded his first double-double as a Seminole. In addition, he totaled two blocked shots, which put\u00a0him over the 200 blocks plateau for his collegiate career.<\/p>\n

Wiggins opened up the second half with a made 3-point shot to give Florida State a 14-point lead, 38-24.<\/p>\n

Florida State recorded all eight of its\u00a0made 3-point shots in the second half and scored 24 of its\u00a054 second-half points from behind the arc.<\/p>\n

The Seminoles would go on a 22-4 run in the second half to extend their lead to 69-40.<\/p>\n

Somerville scored 14 of the Seminoles’ 22 points during that run. Somerville scored 12 of the 14 points over that stretch from behind the three-point line, and three of his 3-point makes were consecutive. Somerville’s four\u00a03-point shots tied\u00a0his season high which he set against Alabama State on November 7.<\/p>\n

Somerville recorded two steals, which gives him 12 on the season and is tied for the team high. Senior guard\u00a0Kobe MaGee<\/a>\u00a0led all players with five steals. MaGee’s five steals set a new career-high, topping his previous record of three. MaGee recorded three steals twice in games against Alabama State on November 7, 2025, and against Purdue Fort Wayne on November 25, 2024.<\/p>\n

Florida State travels to Tampa to take on Texas A&M in the next round of the Battle in the Bay Tournament on Friday at 5:00 pm at the Benchmark International Arena. The game will be televised on ESPN2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE –\u00a0Chauncey Wiggins\u00a0led all scorers with 17 points, and\u00a0Martin Somerville\u00a0and\u00a0Robert McCray V\u00a0added 14 points each in Florida State’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-70231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}