{"id":43438,"date":"2025-11-12T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43438\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T06:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:09:11","slug":"ucf-defeats-famu-florida-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43438\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Defeats FAMU &#8211; Florida A&#038;M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Georgia.png\" alt=\"Georgia\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Georgia<\/p>\n<p>11\/17\/2025 | 7 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Nov. 17 (Mon) \/ 7 PM EST&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Georgia.png\" alt=\"Georgia\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Georgia&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/opponent-history\/georgia\/84\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>ORLANDO, Fla.\u00a0&#8211;The Florida A&amp;M men&#8217;s basketball team got a 34-point showing from the bench, but fell 97-60 to the UCF Knights on the road Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Devere Palmer led the Rattlers (0-3) with nine points and three steals. <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/miles-ndalama\/5079\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5079\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Ndalama<\/a> added eight points, six rebounds and three blocks and <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/anthony-knowles\/5122\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5122\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Knowles<\/a> chipped in as well with 12 points from the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Florida A&amp;M utilized excellent ball movement in Tuesday&#8217;s game, piling up 15 assists on 21 made field goals. Palmer&#8217;s three assists were the most for the Rattlers and <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/kaleb-washington\/4576\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4576\" target=\"_blank\">Kaleb Washington<\/a> also contributed with three assists of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Florida A&amp;M did a great job disrupting UCF shots in the contest, coming away with six blocks. Ndalama&#8217;s three rejections led the way individually for the Rattlers.<\/p>\n<p>How It Happened<\/p>\n<p>Florida A&amp;M struggled out of the gate, falling behind 48-20 heading into halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Florida A&amp;M came out of halftime clicking on all cylinders, going on a 5-0 run, finished off by <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/tyler-shirley\/4577\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4577\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Shirley&#8217;s<\/a> three, to shrink the deficit to 48-25 with 17:50 to go in the contest. UCF responded and outscored the Rattlers the rest of the way, ending the game with a final score of 97-60. Florida A&amp;M got a boost from its bench in the period, as non-starters accounted for 25 of its 40 total points.<\/p>\n<p>Game Notes<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb The Rattlers shared the ball well, recording an assist on 71 percent of made field goals.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb The Florida A&amp;M bench came alive by scoring 34 points to its scoring output.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb The Florida A&amp;M defense forced 16 turnovers.<br \/>\n\u00bb The Rattlers were active in affecting shots on the defensive end, recording six blocks as a team.<br \/>\n\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/anthony-knowles\/5122\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5122\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Knowles<\/a> led the Rattlers with 12 points.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Florida A&amp;M got a team-high six rebounds from <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/miles-ndalama\/5079\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5079\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Ndalama<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Georgia 11\/17\/2025 | 7 PM EST &#13; Nov. 17 (Mon) \/ 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-43438","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\/43438","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=43438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}