{"id":182944,"date":"2026-03-08T07:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182944\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T07:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:05:17","slug":"florida-state-91-78-smu-mar-7-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182944\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State 91-78 SMU (Mar 7, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — \u2014 Chauncey Wiggins<\/a> tallied a career-high 31 points and grabbed nine rebounds, Robert McCray V<\/a> added 17 points, and Florida State cruised by SMU, 91-78 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Wiggins shot 10 of 14 from the floor and 6 for 8 from deep for the Seminoles (17-14, 10-8 Atlantic Coast Conference), who close out the regular season on a three-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

FSU closed out the first half on a 16-6 run that sent them into halftime with a 45-27 lead. Wiggins scored 16 points in the first half. The ‘Noles led by double figures for the entire second half to cruise to the victory.<\/p>\n

Lajae Jones<\/a> scored 12 points and Kobe MaGee<\/a> had 10. The Seminoles shot 52% from the floor and 47% from deep, and held SMU to 42% and 39% marks, respectively.<\/p>\n

For the Mustangs (19-12, 8-10), Boopie Miller<\/a> scored a career-high 32 points on 11-of-20 shooting (7 for 11 from deep), and Samet Yigitoglu<\/a> added 15 (6-of-8 shooting) and grabbed nine rebounds before fouling out. Corey Washington<\/a> scored 12 points before fouling out.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

SMU: No. 11 seed in the ACC Tournament, will play 14th-seeded Syracuse in the first round on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Florida State: No. 8 seed and first-round bye in the ACC Tournament, will play 9th-seeded Cal in the second round on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

—— Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a> and here<\/a> (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — \u2014 Chauncey Wiggins tallied a career-high 31 points and grabbed nine rebounds, Robert McCray V…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-182944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182944","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=182944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}