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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lajae Jones scored 20 points and Florida State continued its run of blowouts against overmatched opponents to begin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-38622","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\/38622","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=38622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}