BLACKSBURG, Va. – The No. 19 Florida State Women’s Basketball team endured back-to-back losses for the first time this season as it fell at 11th-ranked Virginia Tech on Sunday, 84-70, in Cassell Coliseum.
The Seminoles (20-7, 9-5) allowed a season-high 14 3-point field goals to Virginia Tech and were hurt by a 34-11 first-quarter deficit. For the next three quarters, FSU out-scored the Hokies (20-4, 10-4), 59-50, including 45 second-half points.
Sophomore forward Makayla Timpson recorded her 23rd double-figure scoring game of the season with 12 points while adding seven rebounds and a blocked shot. Freshman Ta’Niya Latson added 15 points and became the 10th Seminole to surpass 200 made field goals in a season.
FSU was able to out-score Virginia Tech in the paint, 40-24, as well as contain reigning ACC Player of the Year Elizabeth Kitley with 11 points and four rebounds. Guard Georgia Amoore was Virginia Tech’s primary scorer on Sunday, scoring 25 points include six 3-p
ATLANTA, Ga. – A season-high 13 made 3-point field goals was just one of the many bright spots for Florida State Women’s Basketball as it cruised to a 99-58 win at Georgia Tech on Sunday afternoon at McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta, Ga.
The Seminoles (14-2, 3-0) move to 3-0 in ACC play for the first time since the 2008-09 season. Their 13 3-point field goals made were the third-most in program history and the most since making 14 at UIC on Nov. 23, 2019. , #NoleFAM pic.twitter.com/FjQSZD0tNf— FSU Women's Basketball (@fsuwbb) January 1, 2023
Freshman guard Ta’Niya Latson amassed her fourth 30-point game of the season, scoring 32 points with eight rebounds and four assists. Latson set the FSU single-game record for most free throws made without a miss, going a perfect 13-of-13 from the line. She broke the previous record held by Chantelle Dishman against Tulane, who went 12-of-12 on Jan. 28, 1991.
Latson’s four 30-point games this season are the most by a
Thursday brought the first major winter blast of the season, a storm that crawled across the middle of the country, disrupting travel, upending holiday planning and shuttering much-loved holiday attractions including the city’s Christkindlmarket. But though forecasters had called for temperatures to plummet throughout the day into the single digits a 20 to 30 degree drop from morning no storm proved too daunting for some hearty Chicagoans.