Early season holiday tournaments are weird. They are often played in makeshift arenas that feature awkward sight lines and hit or miss lighting. And that’s not even factoring in the distractions and break from routines that the actual holidays bring. Fortunately, this game ended with a very normal result, as Florida State dominated the University of Alabama-Birmingham 81-63 in the first round of the AdvoCare Invitational.
The first five minutes of this game, aside from PJ Savoy, looked like a holiday tournament. All players without Savoy on the back of their jersey combined to miss the first nine field goal attempts—some of them not even drawing iron.