November 8 – Lajae Jones scored 20 points and Florida State continued its run of blowouts against overmatched opponents to begin the season with a 101-64 win over Alabama State Friday night in Tallahassee, Fla.<\/p>\n
Jones hit his first six shots and first four 3-pointers, finishing 8-of-10 shooting with six rebounds while scoring 14 of his points in the first half.<\/p>\n
Four other Seminoles scored in double figures, led by Kobe MaGee with 16 and Martin Somerville with 14, while six players had five-plus rebounds.<\/p>\n
With this showing, Florida State (2-0) surpassed the 100-point mark in each of its first two games for the first time since 1988-89 and just the second time in program history.<\/p>\n
Asjon Anderson led Alabama State (0-1) with 16 points, adding four boards and two assists. Tyler Mason tallied eight points and six rebounds for the Hornets, who shot 35.4% from the floor and 30.4% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Seminoles made things tough on the offensive end for the Hornets. Alabama State committed 17 turnovers — 10 of which were Florida State steals, led by three from MaGee — which the Seminoles turned into 31 points off turnovers and 16 fastbreak points.<\/p>\n
Florida State shot out to an 18-5 lead less than four minutes in behind a trio of Jones 3-pointers and led 30-13 at the halfway point of the first half.<\/p>\n
The Hornets cut that deficit to as little as nine points with 4:23 left in the half, but the Seminoles responded with a 17-2 run over the end of the first half into the second to open up a 54-30 lead that was never smaller than 22 points the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
After he had just two points in the first half, Somerville went off in the second half with four threes to finish another explosive team perimeter shooting performance.<\/p>\n
Florida State shot 47.3% from the field in the win, hitting 18 3-point attempts (38.3%). Through two games, it has shot 40.3% from the perimeter with 31 made 3-pointers on 77 attempts.<\/p>\n
–Field Level Media<\/p>\n
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