Cougars Take Down Seminoles in Tallahassee

Sunday, December 14

Tallahassee, Fla.

2:00 PM

College of Charleston

7-2,0-0CAA

Florida State

4-8,0-1ACC

Col. of Charleston

Florida St.

12/14/2025 6:05:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The College of Charleston women's basketball team (7-2) earned a 75-70 road win at Florida State (4-8) at the Donald L. Tucker Center Sunday afternoon.

With the win, the Cougars defeated a Power 4 school for the second consecutive year and earned their first victory over an ACC school since Charleston defeated Clemson in 2009.

HOW IT HAPPENED

After Florida State jumped out to a 5-0 lead, the teams traded buckets as Florida State held a 12-8 advantage at the first media timeout.
The Seminoles increased their lead to five, but the Cougars closed the quarter on a 7-2 run with Taylor Barbot hitting a jumper and scoring her sixth point of the quarter to tie the game 15-all.
The squads continued to trade buckets before Taylor Barbot connected with Sophia Tougas on a fastbreak layup to give the Cougars their first lead (24-23) with 3:40 left in the half.
In her season debut, Jami Hill scored her first points of the year as she drained a three in the final three minutes of the half to help CofC hold a 29-28 advantage at the break.
Highlighted by back-to-back threes from Sophia Tougas, the Cougars scored the first 10 points of the second half and increased their lead to 11 with 7:59 left in the third.
Florida State then rattled off eight straight points to make it a three point game in favor of Charleston (39-36).
Taylor Barbot then hit a layup before Taryn Barbot hit two threes to give CofC a 47-41 edge with 3:14 left in the third.
The Seminoles scored the final six points of the quarter and tied the game 47-all with one quarter to play.
After trading scores to open the fourth, Florida State regained control and held a 65-59 lead with 4:44 to play.
Coming out of a timeout, the Cougars scored seven straight points in less than a minute to give CofC a 66-65 lead with 3:16 left in the contest.
With Charleston holding on to a one point lead (68-67) with 1:48 to play, multiple stops and five straight free throws from Taylor Barbot put CofC up 73-67 with 10 seconds to play.
Charleston would go on to defeat Florida State 75-70 at the Donald L. Tucker Center to earn the Cougars third road win of the year and their first win over an ACC school since 2009.

LEADING COUGARS

Junior Taryn Barbot tallied 12 points, five rebounds and two steals.
Junior Taylor Barbot posted game-highs in points (20) and assists (8), while also grabbing four rebounds and collecting two steals.
Junior Grace Ezebilo recorded 12 rebounds and two blocks.
Junior Jami Hill made her season debut, scored eight points and grabbed three rebounds.
Senior Naylee Cortes had a game-high four steals to go along with five points and four boards.
Redshirt senior Sophia Tougas had a season-high 18 points as she went 4-for-8 from behind the arc.

KEY STATS

Charleston forced 22 Florida State turnovers and scored 26 points off Seminole errors.
CofC collected 17 offensive rebounds and took 12 more shots than Florida State.
The Cougars made 13 free throws and shot 81.6% from charity stripe, while the Seminoles shot 73.3% from the line and converted on 11 of their 15 attempts.

OF NOTE

Taryn Barbot is up to 1,241 career points and is 17th on the Cougars all-time scoring list.
Jami Hill made her season debut.
Sophia Tougas tallied her 700th career point.
Nine different Cougars scored in the contest.

UP NEXT

Charleston will head to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Clasico December 19-20 where CofC will face of against Cleveland State and UPR Mayaguez. The tournament central page can be found on the women's basketball schedule page at cofcsports.com.

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