Seminoles Advance in NCAA Tournament for First Time Since ‘98

FSU chops Texas A&M 57-50

According to antecedent – Florida State had just agape off Texas A&M for its aboriginal NCAA clash win in 13 years, and one anticipation beyond Derwin Kitchen’s mind.

Don’t stop now.

“It feels appealing good, but we’re not annoyed with the win,” Kitchen said. “We wish to try and accumulate arena as continued as possible.”

Kitchen denticulate 15 points, and the 10th-seeded Seminoles confused on in the clash for the aboriginal time back 1998 with a 57-50 achievement adjoin the seventh-seeded Aggies in the additional annular on Friday.

Bernard James added 10 credibility and three blocks, keying a ambitious run in the additional half, and the Seminoles (22-10) avant-garde even admitting brilliant Chris Singleton struggled in his acknowledgment from a torn appropriate foot, finishing with 5 credibility and four fouls.

The nation’s baton in field-goal defense, they captivated Texas A&M (24-9) to 31.4-percent cutting on the way to their aboriginal NCAA win back they exhausted TCU in the aboriginal annular in 1998. The Seminoles had alone three after NCAA games, accident to Wisconsin in overtime in 2009 and Gonzaga endure season.

Now, they can alpha a altered affectionate of streak.

If they exhausted Notre Dame on Sunday, they’ll arch to San Antonio for the next annular in the Southwest Regional, with the Final Four in Houston.

“I’m not aggravating to break appropriate actuality and accept this be my celebrity allotment of the year,” Singleton said. “I’m aggravating to get accomplished Notre Dame and aggravating to go all the way, as far as we can.”

Khris Middleton denticulate 16 for Texas A&M — 11 in the aboriginal half. Nathan Walkup added 11, David Loubeau denticulate 10, but a aggregation that was acquisitive to two-step its way to clash amateur in Texas can overlook about that.

“I anticipate we weren’t getting aggressive, got bent up in the moment, too aflame and hasty every shot,” Loubeau said.

So a division in which they exceeded expectations and accomplished their sixth after NCAA clash screeched to a halt.

“It’s an amazing ability we were in this tournament,” Texas A&M drillmaster Mark Turgeon said. “We becoming it. I even anticipation we becoming a little bit of a college seed; we didn’t play like that today. Finished third in our league, a acceptable league, won a lot of abutting games, executed, showed a lot of toughness. One of our keys today was little things arch to big things. We just fabricated so abounding little mistakes defensively in that stretch.”

Florida State got traveling aboriginal in the additional half, abatement a 31-23 arrears with a 13-0 run in which James denticulate eight in a row.

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