Updates: FSU at LSU, Monday at 6 p.m. (ESPN)

[Bob Ferrante]

FSU sports information:

The sixth-seeded Florida State women's basketball team (24-8, 13-5 ACC) will play third-seeded LSU (29-5, 12-4) on Monday at 6 p.m. (ESPN) in the second round of the 2025 NCAA Tournament at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, La.

After defeating 11th-seeded George Mason (27-6, 14-4 A10) 94-59 in the first round on Saturday night, the Seminoles earned the first NCAA Tournament victory since 2019 and defeated the Patriots in their first-ever meeting, scoring the second-highest total in a March Madness game in FSU history. Coach Brooke Wyckoff earned her first NCAA Tournament program win.

The No. 22 Seminoles and No. 10 Tigers have meet 10 times, only once in the postseason back in 2007. Florida State won the last meeting 70-62 on the road in 2019, but LSU holds the series lead 6-4.

With the second-highest scoring offense in the nation at 87.4 points per game, the Noles are led by Ta’Niya Latson, who is the nation’s leading scorer at 25.0 points per game.

The game will air on ESPN and the Seminole Sport Network can be found at 96.5 The Spear, Seminoles.com and Sirius XM.

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Florida St. Starting Lineup

POS	#	NAME	Class	GP	PPG	RPG	APG
G	00	Latson,Ta'Niya		28	25.0	4.5	4.6
G	3	Gordon,O'Mariah		30	16.2	3.3	3.6
G	11	Bowles,Sydney		32	10.6	3.2	1.2
F	21	Timpson,Makayla		32	17.6	10.7	1.0
F	22	Williams,Malea		23	4.3	5.5	0.6

LSU Starting Lineup

POS	#	NAME	Class	GP	PPG	RPG	APG
G	4	Johnson,Flau'Jae		31	19.0	5.7	2.4
G	12	Williams,Mikaylah		34	17.1	4.4	3.4
G	13	Poa,Last-Tear		27	2.1	1.0	2.0
F	5	Smith,Sa'Myah		33	5.8	6.0	0.6
F	24	Morrow,Aneesah		33	18.3	13.6	1.5

 

[semispear]

Go Noles!

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Latson is red-hot early. She has 10 points - all of FSU's 10 points

 

[Bob Ferrante]

A paint miss and then a point-blank miss from Timpson

Law of averages, she will make those. But two tough misses

17-10 LSU

 

[semispear]

Need to get some stops on defense

 

[Bob Ferrante]

LSU shooting 72 percent from the floor is a wow

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Not sure we've ever seen Latson with 16 points in a first quarter

 

[Bob Ferrante]

A bit late to post this but the 1Q stats

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Heck of a start to 2Q. Timpson down low. Williams 3. Bowles 3

FSU back in front 34-33 after trailing by 10

 

[Bob Ferrante]

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Timpson - surrounded by Tigers - gets the offensive board and the putback. Plus the foul

But misses the FT

36-35 FSU

 

[Bob Ferrante]

How do we feel about the heat-check 3s? I don't know ...

 

[Bob Ferrante]

A lot of paint points (24) for LSU

42-38 at 4:38 TV timeout

 

[Bob Ferrante]

FSU is 8 of 14 from the floor so far in 2Q

 

[Bob Ferrante]

What a wild half. LSU 50, FSU 49

Loathe the quantity of 3s, many of them off-balance and heat checks. But quite the offensive display

 

[semispear]

Offense (Latson) getting what they want but defense has to be better to pull off the win. LSU had two starters on the bench and still have a lead at the half. They probably feel good right about now.

 

[Bob Ferrante]

LSU uses a 17-0 run to blow the game wide open

 

[semispear]

Well that was a fun first half. Great adjustments by LSU in the 2nd. Latson hasn’t played well only scored 2 points this half

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Final stats: