1. Quick Start and then...yikes: The game started with FSU deliberately working it into the paint and dividends were immediately returned. Not only did this result in a couple of easy buckets, it also caused early foul trouble for Mississippi State's best interior presence, Gavin Ware.
And then the Noles got careless. Sloppy open court passes led to Malik Beasley and Xavier Rathan-Mayes sitting next to the coaches. Poor outside shooting and shot selection led to easy run outs for Mississippi State. And college basketball's insistence on calling four moving screens a game negated the one dunk we had in the stretch.