{"id":131094,"date":"2026-01-25T08:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131094\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T08:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:41:20","slug":"fsu-basketball-strong-second-half-comes-up-short-on-the-road-against-smu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131094\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU basketball strong second half comes up short on the road against SMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5h\">Florida State basketball (8-12, 1-6 ACC) fought valiantly, but didn\u2019t have enough in the tank to finish the game with a road win over the SMU Mustangs (15-5, 4-3 ACC). <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5k\">FSU fell to SMU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/matchup\/_\/gameId\/401820694\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">83-80<\/a>, but had a chance to tie it with fewer than five seconds remaining. FSU\u2019s Luke Loucks tried to draw up a play to get a three-point shot off, but FSU had a problem inbounding the ball and squandered the opportunity. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5n\">FSU trailed 46-34 at halftime, after a woeful first half where they shot 30 percent and were only 3 of 18 from three-point land. SMU made eight three point shots in the first half. However, FSU started the second half on fire, eventually taking the lead after a 16-3 run. They led by one point with three minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rob with the MONSTER jam!!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Connected?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Connected<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BlzblhVnIr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BlzblhVnIr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Florida State Men\u2019s Basketball (@FSUHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FSUHoops\/status\/2015195482553778475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 24, 2026<\/a>FSU needs more of this instead of taking so many three point shots<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5w\">FSU made seven of 14 three-point attempts in the second half. They outrebounded the Mustangs, had more points off their turnovers, and only turned the ball over eight times. FSU had more points in the paint, but the biggest difference in the game was that SMU shot 23 free throws, making 17. FSU only shot 15 free throws and made 10. FSU lost by three points. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5z\">It continues to go back to my theory of FSU relying on the three-point shot too much. If they had taken fewer three-point shots in the first half, they may have had a better shot at winning the game. The percentage they make three-point shots leads to too many empty possessions. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"62\">Nevertheless, it was good to see the guys competing against one of the better teams in the ACC. I\u2019m not much for moral victories, but it\u2019s better than some of the non-competitive games we\u2019ve seen from FSU at times this year. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida State basketball (8-12, 1-6 ACC) fought valiantly, but didn\u2019t have enough in the tank to finish the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-131094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131094","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=131094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}