FSU’s Season Ends

Moments earlier Chris Singleton pumped faked getting his man in the air and drove the ball in along the right baseline for the slam dunk giving Florida State a 71-70 lead. Seven point nine seconds remained in overtime.  That is all that separated Florida State from their first appearance in the Elite Eight since 1993. All the Seminoles needed to do was to hold VCU on the inbound play under the Rams’ basket. But the Rams had burned the ‘Noles on inbound plays throughout the game. This one particularly hurt when Joey Rodriguez bounced the ball under and in between two Seminole defenders right to a cutting Bradford Burgess who laid the ball in to take a 72-71 lead with 7.1 seconds left. With time running out it looked like Derwin Kitchen might pull out the last second win. After driving from the top of the key down to the right of the lane Kitchen passed up a layup and kicked the ball to Singleton who never got a shot off having it blocked and thus ending a comeback and the Seminoles’ ...