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SYRACUSE<\/a>, N.Y. (AP) Donnie Freeman scored 25 points, reserve Tyler Betsey added 18 points, and Syracuse beat Florida State<\/a> 94-86 on Tuesday night for its third straight victory.<\/p>\n Freeman, who shot 9 of 12, has scored 20-plus points in his last three games. J.J. Starling scored 15 points, William Kyle III had 11 points and nine rebounds, and Nathan George distributed 13 assists for Syracuse.<\/p>\n The Orange (12-5, 3-1 ACC) have won six of their last seven games and eight of 10. It was Syracuse’s first home win over the Seminoles since Jan. 28, 2017.<\/p>\n Kobe MaGee scored 20 points, reserve Martin Somerville scored 18 points, Robert McCray V 14 and reserve Lajae Jones 13 for Florida State (7-10, 0-4).<\/p>\n Jones threw down a dunk with 1:39 left and Somerville made two foul shots to bring Florida State within 90-86 but the Seminoles never scored again.<\/p>\n Kyle and Starling sealed the win with dunks each in an eight-second span.<\/p>\n The Orange led 43-40 with the help of 53% (18 of 34) overall shooting and 39% (7 of 18) from 3-point range. Florida State was right behind at 48% overall (15 of 31) while finishing at 50% (7 of 14) from behind the arc.<\/p>\n Wiggins’ deep 3 two-and-a-half minutes in gave Florida State an 11-3 lead – its largest of the game.<\/p>\n Florida State: Hosts Wake Forest on Saturday.<\/p>\n Syracuse: Heads to Boston College on Saturday.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) Donnie Freeman scored 25 points, reserve Tyler Betsey added 18 points, and Syracuse beat Florida…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8294,28,30,29,3731,4692],"class_list":{"0":"post-117534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-florida-state-seminoles","13":"tag-syracuse-orange"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}