Resilience wasn’t sufficient to place Boston College excessive.
Boston College chased the sport from the opening tipoff, failed get off a game-winning ultimate shot, and succumbed to Florida State, 63-62, in a heartbreaker on Tuesday night time at Conte Forum.
BC inbounded the ball from half courtroom with 8.5 seconds remaining. BC labored the ball to Jaeden Zackery, who had hassle dealing with it within the nook. Zackery was instantly double teamed and by no means bought a shot off. BC dropped to 13-9, 4-7 within the ACC and performs at Duke on Saturday.
“We just wanted to get a shot with five seconds, get a shot at the rim and we would have had bonus” stated BC coach Earl Grant. “You are down one so you just want to go score and we had multiple options with JZ cutting to the corner. We were hoping to get a foul or a shot at the basket.”
BC shot 40.7% from the ground with eight treys and outrebounded the taller Seminoles, 40-32. The Eagles harm themselves with 13 turnovers that FSU transformed into 19 factors. BC was led by graduate energy ahead Quinten Post, who grabbed 12 rebounds with 21 factors, together with the 1,000th of his profession.
“He’s come a long way,” stated Grant. “I am proud of Quinten, he has come a really long way and he was a back up player his first year. He is really coachable and a joy to be around and he’s gotten better every year.”
BC fell behind 42-31 at first of the second half, however the Eagles regrouped with an 8-0 run to chop the Seminoles result in 42-39 into the primary media timeout. FSU junior guard Jalen Warley busted the surge with a pair of transition baskets. BC countered with successive stops and minimize the result in 48-46 on a drive and a trey by Mason Madsen into the second media timeout.
BC tied recreation 52-52 on a 3-ball by Post from the highest of the important thing with 8:08 to play however trailed by two into the third media timeout. BC guard Jaeden Zackery tied the sport 54-54 with two from the road, however FSU retaliated with a 7-2 spurt to go up 61-56 into the ultimate media timeout.
Warley put FSU up 63-60 with a drive, however BC ahead Devin McGlockton responded with a layup to chop the result in one with 16.7 seconds to play. BC bought the ball when FSU guard Darin Green missed the entrance finish of a one-and-one.
“They play a unique style of basketball with heavy switching and very aggressive,” stated Post. “It is so hard to always be trailing and I feel like we are capable of not being in that situation.”
Boston College entered the sport with consecutive ACC wins in opposition to Notre Dame and Syracuse whereas the Seminoles dropped back-to-back convention matches in opposition to No. 3 North Carolina and final place Louisville. The Cardinals put up 101 factors on the Seminoles.
FSU put the travails of Louisville behind them and jumped out to a 9-2 lead into the primary media timeout. Eagles aided the FSU surge with poor shot choice and turnovers.
FSU rapidly upped the result in 16-2 when senior guard Josh Nickelberry drained a 3-ball from the highest of the important thing with 14:25, prompting Grant to name timeout and assess the scenario. BC was trailing 16-7 when Post buried a trifecta from the highest of the important thing at 13:24, eclipsing the 1,000-point milestone on his profession.
“It was a buzzsaw, 16-2 and it is like spotting somebody 14 points and in this league that is really hard to do,” stated Grant. “I thought we won the game except for the first four minutes.”
FSU went up 21-7 on a dunk by Taylor Bol Bowen, however BC guard Claudell Harris buried a 3 to start out a 7-0 run that made 21-14 into the second media timeout. FSU regained management of the important thing on each ends to go up 29-18 on a put again dunk by Jaylan Gainey. BC rallied to chop the result in 35-31 into the ultimate media timeout. FSU led 37-31 on the half.
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