GAME THREAD: MBB at Florida State

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SMU (22-8, 13-6 ACC) faces Florida State (16-14, 7-12 ACC) at 3 PM (Central time)

Game can be seen on ESPNU

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Wild card: Saturday is the final home game for FSU head coach Leonard Hamilton

[Charleston Pony]

Today's games will determine whether SMU is the 4th, 5th or 6th seed in the ACC tournament. Wake up 34-15 at half vs Ga Tech. Really important road game for SMU today but just about every game remaining on the ACC schedule has become a must win. I think only a close loss to # 1 Duke in the ACC Tourney finals would give this team a shot at the NCAA Tourney

[PonyPride]

Florida State leaders

Scoring
Redshirt senior guard (6-7) Jamir Watkins: 18.5
Junior forward (6-11) Malique Ewin: 14.0

Rebounds
Ewin: 7.8
Watkins: 5.4

Assists
Watkins: 68
Junior guard (6-5) Chandler Jackson: 54
Senior guard (6-7) Justin Thomas: 53

Steals
Jackson, Watkins: 36
Freshman guard (6-1) Daquan Davis: 32

Blocked shots
Sophomore forward (6-10) Taylor Bol Bowen: 41

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Cross opens the scoring with a layup of a quick inbound pass

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Harris 3 is 135th of his career — 10th all-time

Will be tough to move further up the list. Up next: Chad Allen is ninth in school history with 161

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Ewin and Watkins with back-to-back dunks give FSU 6-5 lead

[Charleston Pony]

2 sloppy turnovers early by Edwards. I wonder if he's still playing sick today?

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Cross and Watkins trade 3s
9-8 FSU

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Harris connects from long range to make it 11-9

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Ponies have hit 4 of last 6
Noles have missed 4 of last 6

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Kario Oquendo is from Titusville, Florida (about halfway down the east coast of the state — I had to look it up, too). It's about a 300-mile drive to Tallahassee, and the announcers said he has friends and family in the crowd.

Any bets on whether he dials up a poster dunk sometime today?

[Charleston Pony]

FSU playing with great effort and getting too many 2nd chances early in this game

[Charleston Pony]

Kario Oquendo is from Titusville, Florida (about halfway down the east coast of the state — I had to look it up, too). It's about a 300-mile drive to Tallahassee, and the announcers said he has friends and family in the crowd.

Any bets on whether he dials up a poster dunk sometime today?

We can hope that opportunity comes! He should get plenty of minutes if Edwards is still feeling puny

[PonyPride]

Harris has half of SMU's 22 points
4/6 FGs
3/3 3-point FGs