{"id":34760,"date":"2025-11-05T19:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34760\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:57:20","slug":"florida-state-108-76-alcorn-state-nov-4-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34760\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State 108-76 Alcorn State (Nov 4, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5105448\/chauncey-wiggins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chauncey Wiggins<\/a> scored 22 points and Florida State opened the Luke Loucks era with a 108-76 victory over Alcorn State on Tuesday night in a season opener. <\/p>\n<p>              Wiggins, who spent the past three seasons with Clemson, shot 3 of 8 from long range and 7 of 14 overall. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5108969\/lajae-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lajae Jones<\/a> added 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting for the Seminoles. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4685802\/robert-mccray-v\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert McCray V<\/a> had 17 assists to go with 12 points. <\/p>\n<p>              Florida State shot 39 of 70 (56%) from the field and made 13 of 30 buckets (43%) from beyond the arc. <\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5242279\/nick-woodard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Woodard<\/a> scored 16 points on 7-of-10 shooting to lead Alcorn State. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5243189\/tycen-mcdaniels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tycen McDaniels<\/a> added 14 points and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5243188\/davian-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davian Williams<\/a> had 13. The trio each had a team-high six rebounds. <\/p>\n<p>              Loucks took over for Leonard Hamilton at the end of the 2024-25 season after Hamilton coached for 23 seasons. Loucks played under Hamilton at Florida State from 2009-12.<\/p>\n<p>              Jake Morton also made his coaching debut with Alcorn State. Morton was on the FSU coaching staff last year.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212; Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/ap-newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; \u2014 Chauncey Wiggins scored 22 points and Florida State opened the Luke Loucks era with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-34760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34760","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=34760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}