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Seminoles shock Blue Devils
By Mike Ogle, Special to CNNSI.com Florida State (15-8 overall, 7-5 ACC) made the race for second place even tighter last week when it picked up three conference wins, including a shocker at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Seminoles upset No. 4 Duke (21-2, 9-2) 71-69 on Feb. 8 behind a strong performance from 3-point range. FSU, shooting 29.0 percent from long distance on the season, hit 7 of 13 attempts against the Blue Devils. FSU squeaked by Duke despite committing 24 turnovers and shooting just 59.3 percent from the free throw line. Brooke Wyckoff (20 points, 9 rebounds), April Traylor (17 points) and Levys Torres (15 points, 9 rebounds) led the way for the Seminoles. Florida State had dropped six of its last eight games heading into last week, but wins over Georgia Tech, Duke and Maryland put it right back in the thick of a tight ACC. The Seminoles stand alone at second in the league with five teams (Clemson, Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and N.C. State) right on their tails with six conference losses each. FSU has Wake Forest, UNC, Clemson and Virginia remaining on its schedule. Wyckoff, Beard take honorsLast week's leading scorers in the FSU-Duke thriller earned themselves the distinctions of ACC player of the week and rookie of the week. Wyckoff was named the player of the week after averaging 23.3 points and 7.3 rebounds in Florida State's surge toward the top of the conference last week. In the three wins, the senior forward shot 54 percent from the field, 56 percent from 3-point territory and 100 percent from the charity stripe. She netted a career-high 30 points against the Yellow Jackets to kick off the week. She has helped the Seminoles to their best record in nine seasons. Meanwhile, Duke's Alana Beard, who scored 19 in the loss to FSU, picked up rookie of the week honors for the sixth time this season. The Florida State game marked the freshman's return to action from a dislocated thumb injury she suffered Jan. 18. It was the Blue Devils' lone contest last week. Wolfpack bounces backN.C. State, which reached as high as No. 12 in the Associated Press poll this season, re-entered the rankings at No. 24 last week in the midst of its current four-game winning streak. The Wolfpack's Jan. 14 overtime loss at UNC started a four-game skid that included losses to two top 10 teams (Duke and Iowa State). But since, N.C. State has picked up victories against Florida State, Clemson, Virginia and Wake Forest and climbed back into the conference race. Carisse Moody leads the Wolfpack with 14.3 points per game and 6.8 rebounds per game.
Mike Ogle is a reporter for The Daily Tar Heel, the student paper that serves the University of North Carolina.
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