DURHAM, N.C. – The Florida State women’s basketball team (9-20, 4-14 ACC) fell to No. 12/14 Duke (21-7, 16-1 ACC) by a final score of 80-52 on Thursday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina.
 
Graduate guard Jasmine Shavers led all Seminoles with 21 points on 9-of-20 shooting from the floor. It is her sixth game of the season scoring 20 points or more. She would also add a pair of rebounds and assists as well as a single block. 
 
Junior guard Solé Williams contributed 12 points, posting a perfect 4-of-4 mark at the free-throw line. Williams picked up four rebounds as well as a steal. 
 
Sophomore guard Tatum Greene led the team on the board, securing eight, all defensive, while also registering a block and a steal. Junior center Pania Davis contributed a team high three steals and one block, while graduate forward Allie Kubek managed two rejections and two steals. 
 
Despite the  Blue Devils taking an early lead in the opening minutes, Shavers battled it back with a mid-range jumper and threes on back-to-back possessions. She would break into double digits early in the contest, posting 12 points on 5-of-9 shooting in the quarter alone. Williams, Greene and Kubek would chip in layups to maintain control. 
 
As the offense stayed steady, the Seminole defense applied pressure. Greene and Shavers would each record blocks and Davis registered two steals as the Noles worked three turnovers from the Blue Devils across the opening quarter. While Duke briefly stripped the lead back at 1:16 remaining, an efficient second-chance layup by junior forward Avery Treadwell would win it back and Shavers would add insurance with a mid-range jumper to cap the first frame with a 20-17 lead. 
 
 In the second, a timely steal by Davis allowed Williams to get out in transition for a layup at 4:30, but back-to-back triples by Duke put the Blue Devils in front. 
 A corner three fell for Bowles to get her into the scoring column, yet Duke responded with one of their own. A second-chance basket down low for Kubek and a quarter-closing layup from Shavers saw Florida State stay hot on Duke’s trail, 33-29. 
 
Shavers remained the only Seminole in double digits at halftime with 14 points and contributed a pair of rebounds as well as a block and an assist. Kubek led on the glass with three boards, including two offensive rebounds, while Davis maintained pressure on the Duke offense with three steals. Florida State managed eight turnovers from the Blue Devils, converting them into 10 points across the half. 
 
Duke came out of the locker room strong to begin the second half, quickly going on scoring runs with hefty perimeter shooting. A layup came for Greene after a brief timeout at 8:07, and senior guard Sydney Bowles would add a mid-range jumper in the following minutes. 
 
The offense picked up in the final minutes to go on a 7-0 run as the Duke offense went cold. A steal by Treadwell led to another Williams layup, and she’d sink Florida State’s first pair of free throws with under three minutes to play in the third. Shavers attacked the paint to earn the and-one with under two to go, closing the visiting side scoring as Florida State entered the fourth quarter trailing 55-40. 
 
Williams continued to pressure early in the final quarter, dropping two more free throws and taking a defensive rebound coast-to-coast on a fast break in the opening minute alone. However, the Duke offense continued to answer and extend the lead. Shavers would pick up four more points across the frame and Kubek would lay in the final basket for the Garnet and Gold with under a minute remaining as the Seminoles fell 80-52.
 
Florida State will wrap up the regular season in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where they will face Wake Forest in Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Stadium on Sunday, Mar. 1. Tip-off will air on the ACC Network at 4 p.m. 
 
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