TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Playing a regular-season game for the first time in 613 days, the University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team ran into a buzzsaw on Wednesday night as No. 20 Florida State blew things open early in the second half en route to a 105-70 victory at the Donald L. Tucker Center. The game was the season opener for both squads.

Notes
*Penn fell to 0-4 when playing a team ranked 20th in the Associated Press national poll.
 
*This was the first meeting between the Quakers and the Seminoles in men's basketball.
 
*Penn played 14 players on Wednesday night and 10 of them scored.
 
*Among the players who scored their first collegiate points on Wednesday night: fifth-year senior Jelani Williams (2), junior Jonah Charles (12), sophomores Clark Slajchert (12) and Andrew Laczkowski (2), and freshmen Nick Spinoso (4) and George Smith (1).
 
*Sophomore Jordan Dingle led the Quakers with 23 points, including a 5-of-8 performance from three-point land.
 
*Charles knocked down four treys in his collegiate debut, three of them in the first half.
 
*Slajchert went a perfect 8-of-8 at the foul line, the best performance by a Penn player at the charity stripe in the Steve Donahue era. The previous best of 6-of-6 had happened four times; as a team, Penn was 15-of-19 on foul shots.
 
How It Happened
Penn went toe-to-toe with the Seminoles for the first several minutes of Wednesday night's contest. The Quakers got on the board right off the opening tip, Charles knocking down a three, and led 7-4 just before the first media timeout. The lead was 14-13 through the second media marker, but out of that break FSU made its first move and never looked back. The Noles scored nine straight points—all of them a direct result of a Penn turnover.
 
Penn got a pair of three-point plays—Dingle from beyond the arc, Slajchert the old-fashioned way—and that capped an 8-2 run that had the Quakers back within 25-22 with eight minutes left in the half. However, another Charles triple was answered by a 9-0 FSU run that pushed them in front by double digits (37-26). The margin never got closer than nine after that, and FSU's lead was 51-39 at the break.
 
It got away quickly in the second half. The Seminoles scored the first nine points of the period, then responded to a Dingle trey with the next five. That made the score 65-42 just over three minutes into the half, and when Wang scored on a putback the Noles revved it up again with 10 in a row. Overall, it was a 24-5 run that took less than six minutes.
 
Florida State surpassed the 100-point mark with 3:35 left in the game, and its largest lead (103-62) came shortly after that. It marked the first time Penn gave up 100 points to an opponent since a 104-67 loss at Washington early in the 2015-16 season.
 
Up Next
Penn gets right back at it, traveling to the D.C. area to face George Mason on Friday. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. and the game will air live on subscription-based ESPN+.