{"id":156701,"date":"2026-02-15T23:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/156701\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:50:13","slug":"virginia-tech-men-falls-92-69-following-florida-states-explosive-second-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/156701\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech Men falls 92-69 following Florida State&#8217;s explosive second half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLACKSBURG, VA (WSET\/Virginia Tech) \u2014 Virginia Tech dropped to 17-9 and 6-7 in conference play after Florida State\u2019s second-half offensive barrage led to a 92-69 loss inside Cassell Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p>The Hokies could not recover from a 13-0 run by FSU in the second half, led by Martin Somerville, who ended with 23 points on 82% shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Hammond and Tobi Lawal kept Tech within striking distance of the lead for most of the second half, scoring 16 each, but the Seminoles\u2019 three-point attack and pressure defense halted any momentum the Hokies gained.<\/p>\n<p>The Hokies travel to the Sunshine State on Tuesday, February 17, for an 8 p.m. tip against Miami. Coverage will be available on ACCN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLACKSBURG, VA (WSET\/Virginia Tech) \u2014 Virginia Tech dropped to 17-9 and 6-7 in conference play after Florida State\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-156701","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\/156701","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=156701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}