{"id":139305,"date":"2026-02-01T02:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139305\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T02:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:35:08","slug":"mens-basketball-drops-battle-at-florida-state-stanford-cardinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139305\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Basketball Drops Battle at Florida State &#8211; Stanford Cardinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 Wrapping up its road trip to the state of Florida, Stanford men\u2019s basketball fell on the road to Florida State, 88-80, at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center. Stanford drops to 14-8 this season and 3-6 in the ACC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/ebuka-okorie\" title=\"Ebuka Okorie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ebuka Okorie<\/a> led the Cardinal with 26 points, including 23 in the second half, to go with four assists. <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/benny-gealer\" title=\"Benny Gealer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benny Gealer<\/a> scored 12 points, including four 3-pointers, while <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/aj-rohosy\" title=\"AJ Rohosy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AJ Rohosy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/donavin-young\" title=\"Donavin Young\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donavin Young<\/a> were in double figures with 11 and 10 points, respectively. <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/oskar-giltay\" title=\"Oskar Giltay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oskar Giltay<\/a> stuffed the stat sheet with four points, nine rebounds, three blocks and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>Okorie continued his ascent through the Stanford freshman record book in a variety of categories, moving into eighth in field goals with 134, passing Brian Welch, Johnny Rogers and Kim Belton, and into ninth on the 3-pointers made list with 36, tying him with <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/harrison-ingram\" title=\"Harrison Ingram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harrison Ingram<\/a>. Additionally, he passed John Revelli for second with 131 free throws made, moving just nine away from matching Todd Lichti for the Cardinal freshman record, and tied <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/bryce-wills\" title=\"Bryce Wills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryce Wills<\/a> for 10th with 29 steals.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinal made 12 3-pointers on the night and held a 24-10 advantage in bench scoring, but Florida State (10-12, 3-6 ACC) held a 18-9 advantage in points off of turnovers and enjoyed a large advantage at the free throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford led early by as many as five points, 16-11, after 3-pointers from Gealer and <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/jeremy-dent-smith\" title=\"Jeremy Dent-Smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Dent-Smith<\/a>, who finished with seven points. The Seminoles took the lead with 7:28 to play in the first half as part of a 13-2 run, and it led at the half by eight, 41-33.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State pushed the edge as high as 19 points with 9:46 to play, but Stanford showed its resilience to get back in the game. Okorie scored 12 straight points to help cut the margin to 13, 79-66, while a fastbreak scoop and score from <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/jaylen-thompson\" title=\"Jaylen Thompson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaylen Thompson<\/a> brought the game back to single digits, 83-74, with 1:59 to play. Ultimately, there were too few possessions remaining, and Florida State survived the run to win the game.<\/p>\n<p>The win was the first in the series history for Florida State in three attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford returns home to Maples Pavilion to face No. 22\/19 Clemson on Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. The action will air on ACC Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 Wrapping up its road trip to the state of Florida, Stanford men\u2019s basketball fell on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,6815,6817,6756,6816],"class_list":{"0":"post-139305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-stanford","12":"tag-stanford-athletics","13":"tag-stanford-cardinal","14":"tag-stanford-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139305","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=139305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}