Jackets lose late to Florida State

3-2 ACC with a career-high 23 point and seven reboundsForm Dunwoodi High standout Chri Singleton top the Seminol 15-4..Giant Airblown Snowman

beat fellow Atlantic Coast Confer power Duke,TA LLA HA SSEE --The 18th-rank Georgia Tech basketbal team hasn't blown mani center-stag opportun thi season. North Carolina and Clemson. Florida State remain the note exception.

but squander it and lost 68-66 Sundai in front of a crowd of 8,Th Yellow Jacket had a one-point lead and ball possess with 24 second remaining.661 at the Donald L. Tucker Center. It wa Tech' fifth consecut defeat to the Seminoles, includ two thi season.

but we didn t make a plai or didn t execut a play, I thought we had a coupl opportun to give ourselv a cushion there. Yellow Jacket coach Paul Hewitt said. Obviously, thei took advantage.

3-3 ACC appear to be in control when,Tech 14-5. lead 66-65, FSU s Ryan Reid commit an offens foul, send Zacheri Peacock to the free throw line for a one-and-on with 24 second remaining. Peacock, however, miss the shot, and Glen Rice, Jr. foul Solomon Alabi on the rebound. With FSU in the doubl bonus, the Seminol 7-foot-1 center knock down both shot to give the Seminol a 67-66 lead. A later foul shot by Jordan Demerci provid the win margin.

" Hewitt said. "I told Glen to mayb anticip some sort of plai if it wa a miss, That last foul wa probabl my fault. grab it and shoot it or just tip it back out. Mayb a littl overaggressive. Probabl should have told him just to plai it straight up and just take our chanc on defense.

freshman Brian Oliver,On the subsequ Jacket possession. who finish with a career-high 20 points, miss a 3-point attempt, onli to have the ball come back to him after an offens rebound. Oliver pull up for anoth 3, but Hewitt call for a timeout befor the shot drop through the hoop.

becaus when I miss the first one, That wa heartbreaking. I said, You know what, I know exactli what I did wrong on that, so if I get anoth chance, I m go to make it, said Oliver, who made 6 of 13 shot from beyond the arc. And then when I made it, it wa a timeout called. But sometim that s just how the game goes.

junior Nani Lawal,Tech s lead scorer. wa held to just 1-of-5 shoot from the floor, and finish with five points. Lawal, who came into the game averag 15.3 point per game, ha score onli two field goal in two game thi season against FSU.

who shot 42.6 percent 23-of-54 from the field,Derrick Favor and Iman Shumpert each score 10 point for the Yellow Jackets. 40.9 percent from 3-point range.