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Know Your Opponent: Florida State



Florida State (Seminoles.com)
Location: Tallahassee, Fla.
Rankings: No. 17 KenPom, No. 16 AP
NET/SOS: No. 21 NET, No. 51 SOS
Record: 21-5, 9-4 ACC
Carolina Series History (Last Meeting): UNC leads 49-13 (FSU 81, UNC 80, Jan. 3, 2018, Tucker Center)

By Bobby Hundley

Florida State rolled to a 12-1 non-conference start to the season, picking up impressive wins over Florida, LSU and Purdue with only a 6-point setback to Villanova in the loss column. Pair that with the momentum from last year's Elite Eight run and Leonard Hamilton's Seminoles looked poised to break into the upper echelon of the ACC as league play began.