{"id":180574,"date":"2026-03-06T10:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180574\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:27:14","slug":"florida-state-hosts-smu-following-pierres-27-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180574\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State hosts SMU following Pierre’s 27-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

SMU Mustangs<\/a> (19-11, 8-9 ACC) at Florida State Seminoles<\/a> (16-14, 9-8 ACC)<\/p>\n

Tallahassee, Florida; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: SMU visits Florida State after Jaron Pierre Jr.<\/a> scored 27 points in SMU’s 77-69 loss to the Miami Hurricanes.<\/p>\n

The Seminoles have gone 10-6 in home games. Florida State is 4-4 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n

The Mustangs have gone 8-9 against ACC opponents. SMU is the top team in the ACC scoring 12.3 fast break points per game.<\/p>\n

Florida State averages 79.6 points per game, 1.6 more points than the 78.0 SMU allows. SMU averages 7.7 more points per game (85.2) than Florida State allows to opponents (77.5).<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the second time in conference play this season. SMU won 83-80 in the last matchup on Jan. 24. Pierre led SMU with 28 points, and Robert McCray<\/a> led Florida State with 21 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: McCray is shooting 44.3% and averaging 15.6 points for the Seminoles. Chauncey Wiggins<\/a> is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kevin Miller is scoring 18.9 points per game and averaging 3.7 rebounds for the Mustangs. Pierre is averaging 18.7 points and 5.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Seminoles: 8-2, averaging 76.1 points, 31.6 rebounds, 12.7 assists, 5.7 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 44.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 71.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Mustangs: 4-6, averaging 81.2 points, 33.0 rebounds, 16.2 assists, 6.0 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 49.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.9 points.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SMU Mustangs (19-11, 8-9 ACC) at Florida State Seminoles (16-14, 9-8 ACC) Tallahassee, Florida; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26187,8294,70652,28,30,29,3731,85352,62423,4700],"class_list":{"0":"post-180574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-chauncey-wiggins","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-florida-state-seminoles","15":"tag-jaron-pierre-jr","16":"tag-robert-mccray-v","17":"tag-smu-mustangs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180574","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=180574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}