{"id":188291,"date":"2026-03-12T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188291\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:00:07","slug":"florida-am-dispatches-jackson-state-and-advances-to-swac-semi-finals-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188291\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida A&#038;M Dispatches Jackson State and Advances to SWAC Semi-Finals on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>COLLEGE PARK, Ga.\u00a0&#8211;The Florida A&amp;M men&#8217;s basketball team got a 22-point showing from the bench on the way to a 70-60 win over the Jackson State Tigers at The Gateway Center Arena at College Park Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Rattlers (15-15) had four players score in double figures, led by Antonio Baker, who had 14 points, seven rebounds and four steals. <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/tyler-shirley\/4577\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4577\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Shirley<\/a> tacked on 13 points and <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/kaleb-washington\/4576\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4576\" target=\"_blank\">Kaleb Washington<\/a> helped out with 10 points, four assists and four steals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/micah-octave\/5084\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5084\" target=\"_blank\">Micah Octave<\/a> pulled down four offensive rebounds to lead the Florida A&amp;M offense which grabbed 17 boards and turned them into 14 second chance points.<\/p>\n<p>Florida A&amp;M&#8217;s defense held Jackson State to only 33.9 percent shooting from the field. The Rattlers also limited Delyle Williams to 2-of-12 shooting and 10 points in the game.<\/p>\n<p>How It Happened<\/p>\n<p>After falling behind 17-14, Florida A&amp;M went on a 7-0 run with 8:23 left in the first half to take a 21-17 lead. The Rattlers then surrendered that lead and entered halftime down 34-33.<\/p>\n<p>After intermission, Florida A&amp;M kept the Tigers from increasing their lead before going on a 5-0 run to seize a 49-45 lead with 5:51 to go in the contest. The Rattlers kept expanding the margin and coasted the rest of the way for the 70-60 win. Florida A&amp;M took care of business in the paint, recording 22 of its 37 points in the lane.<\/p>\n<p>Game Notes<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb The Rattlers held the Tigers to only 33.9 percent shooting from the field.<br \/>\n\u00bb The Rattlers shared the ball well, recording an assist on 71 percent of made baskets.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb The Florida A&amp;M bench came alive by adding 22 points to its scoring output.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Florida A&amp;M had a 40-38 edge on the boards in the win.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb The Florida A&amp;M defense forced 20 turnovers.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Florida A&amp;M cleaned up on the offensive glass, collecting 17 offensive boards in the game.<br \/>\n\u00bb Antonio Baker led the Rattlers with 14 points.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Florida A&amp;M got a game-high 10 rebounds from <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/micah-octave\/5084\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5084\" target=\"_blank\">Micah Octave<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; COLLEGE PARK, Ga.\u00a0&#8211;The Florida A&amp;M men&#8217;s basketball team got a 22-point showing from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-188291","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\/188291","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=188291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}