TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Lajae Jones scored a career-high 36 points and tied a program record with 10 made 3-pointers on Friday night to help Florida State beat Georgia Southern 98-72 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Jones, a transfer from St. Bonaventure who averaged 10.3 points per game last season, was 10-of-21 shooting \u2014 all from behind the arc \u2014 hit 6 of 8 from the free-throw line and had three steals. The 6-foot-7 senior guard played a season at Tarleton State and Barton Community College before he had three 20-point games for the Bonnies last year.<\/p>\n
Chauncey Wiggins had 11 points and 10 rebounds for Florida State (4-1). Kobe MaGee scored 12 points and Cam Miles added 11 points and five assists.<\/p>\n
Shainen Carter led Georgia Southern (3-3) with 14 points and went 3 of 3 from the field and 8 of 8 from the free-throw line. Nakavieon White added 13 points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n
Alex Steen threw down a dunk to open the scoring 12 seconds into the game and the Seminoles led the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Georgia Southern scored six consecutive points to trim its deficit to 22-21 with 8:25 to go in the first half but Magee answered with a three-point play and Florida State closed the first half with an 11-2 run to take an 11-point lead into halftime.<\/p>\n
Dwayne Williams Jr. hit a 3-pointer that cut Georgia Southern’s deficit to 40-32 about 25 seconds into the second half but Jones made three 3s in a 44-second span to push the lead to 15 more than a minute later. Jones added two more 3-pointers in a 14-0 run that culminated with Wiggins threw down a dunk and gave the Seminoles a 67-39 lead with 12:37 left in the game.<\/p>\n
George McCloud hit 10 3-pointers (and also finished with 36 points) for Florida State in a 101-100 loss to LaSalle on Feb. 23, 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Lajae Jones scored a career-high 36 points and tied a program record with 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2205,8294,28,3731,110,232,234,233,135],"class_list":["post-56704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-associated-press","tag-college-basketball","tag-florida","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-sports","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tampa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56704","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=56704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}