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No. 11 Florida State starts slowly, falls on the road to a struggling Notre Dame team

Looking to build some momentum heading into the postseason, Florida State instead took an ugly loss to a sub-.500 Notre Damn team in South Bend, Indiana, falling 83-73 in the final game of the regular season.

Florida State came out as poorly as they’ve opened a game all season. Lethal from three at the Tuck (42.6% on the season), the ‘Noles were shooting just 31.7% from deep away from home coming into Saturday and even that is warm compared to how FSU started this game.

On top of that, turnovers were plentiful (several on foolish attempts to force feed Tanor Ngom down low), layups were missed, shot selection was awful (Ngom attempting an early shot-clock three?