NO. 13/15 FLORIDA STATE SEMINOLES (15-4 OVERALL, 11-3 ACC) 2020-21 Florida State Schedule VS. D2 North Florida W, 86-58 LOUISVILLE CARDINALS (14-5 OVERALL, 9-5 ACC) OR D9 1 Indiana W, 69-67 (OT) DUKE BLUE DEVILS (12-11 OVERALL, 9-9 ACC) D12 Florida W, 83-71 THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2021; 6:30 P.M. D15 * Georgia Tech W, 74-61 68th ANNUAL NEW YORK LIFE ACC TOURNAMENT D19 UCF L, 74-86 GREENSBORO COLISEUM D21 Gardner-Webb W, 72-59 GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA D29 * at Clemson L, 67-77 LEARFIELD IMG COLLEGE RADIO NETWORK (GENE DECKERHOFF, ADRIAN CRAWFORD) J2 * Duke Postponed ESPN (DAN SHULMAN, JAY BILAS) J6 * at Syracuse Postponed J13 * NC State W, 105-73 “When Leonard Hamilton came to Tallahassee in 2002, he took over a program that had been to one NCAA J16 * North Carolina W, 82-75 Tournament in the previous nine years. After reaching the Elite Eight in 2018 and the Sweet 16 in 2019, the J18 * at Louisville W, 78-65 Seminoles won their first ACC regular-season title last season. Despite losing their top two scorers plus freshman J23 * Clemson W, 80-61 forward Patrick Williams, who was picked fourth in the 2020 NBA Draft, the Seminoles are ranked No. 11 in the J27 * Miami W, 81-59 AP poll and closing in on another league title. FSU also has the nation’s No. 2-rated recruiting class according to J30 * at Georgia Tech L, 65-76 247 Sports, and because Hamilton usually plays 10 or 11 guys there are plenty of minutes to go around. This week F2 * at Boston College Postponed the school rewarded him with a five-year contract extension. In some ways it feels like he’s just getting started.” F6 * at Pittsburgh Postponed Seth Davis F9 * at Virginia Tech Postponed CBS Sports / The Athletic F13 * Wake Forest W, 92-85 (OT) F15 * Virginia W, 81-60 FLORIDA STATE BEGINS PLAY THURSDAY IN ACC TOURNMENT IN GREENSBORO F20 * Virginia Tech Postponed Florida State, the defending ACC Champion, begins play in the 2021 ACC Tournament on Thursday, March 11, F20 * at Pittsburgh W, 79-72 2021 at 6:30 p.m. at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C. The Seminoles will play either Duke or F24 * at Miami W, 88-71 Louisville in the quarterfinal round. Florida State finished in second place in the ACC standings and enters the F27 * at North Carolina L, 70-78 ACC Tournament as the No. 2 seed. The Seminoles have earned one of four coveted double byes and will M3 * Boston College W, 93-64 advance into the quarterfinal round before playing their first game on Thursday at approximately 6:30 p.m. The M6 * at Notre Dame L, 73-83 Seminoles will face either No. 10 seed Duke (who defeated Boston College in the first round on Tuesday) or the M11 2 Louisville/Duke 6:30 p.m. No 7 seed Louisville in the third quarterfinal game on Thursday. Boston College faces Duke in the first round *ACC Game. 1 ACC/Big Ten Challenge at Tallahassee, Tuesday with the winner of that game advancing to play Louisville in the second round on Wednesday. Florida Fla.; 2 ACC Tournament Greensboro Coliseum, State finished its regular season with a 15-5 overall record and an 11-4 mark in ACC play. The Seminoles have Greensboro, N.C. won 13 (in 2019), 16 (in 2020) and 11 ACC games (in 2021) and have a 40-13 mark in ACC play since the beginning of the 2018-19 season. 2020-21 ACC Standings Team W L Pct. W L Pct. FLORIDA STATE IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS Virginia 13 4 .765 17 6 .739 Florida State enters the 2021 ACC Tournament ranked No. 13 in the USA Today Coaches Poll and No. 15 in the Florida State 11 4 .733 15 5 .750 Associated Press poll. It marks the third consecutive week and fifth week this season that the Seminoles are the Virginia Tech 9 4 .692 15 5 .750 highest ranked ACC team in both of the major college basketball polls. The Seminoles began the season ranked Georgia Tech 11 6 .647 15 8 .652 No. 18 in the Coaches Poll and No. 21 in the AP poll. Clemson 10 6 .625 16 6 .727 N. Carolina 10 6 .625 16 9 .640 SEMINOLES IN THE TOP FOUR OF THE ACC STANDINGS Louisville 8 5 .615 13 6 .684 Florida State’s second place finish in the 2021 ACC Standings marks the second time in school history the Syracuse 9 7 .556 15 8 .652 Seminoles have finished in the top two in the ACC standings in consecutive seasons (also second in both 1992 NC State 9 8 .529 13 9 .591 and 1993). The runner-up finish also marks the school-record eighth time Hamilton has guided his Seminoles to Duke 9 9 .500 12 11 .522 a top-four finish in the ACC standings. Florida State has won double digit ACC games in three consecutive and Notre Dame 7 11 .389 10 14 .417 five of the last six seasons. Prior to Hamilton’s arrival at Florida State for the 2002-03 season, Florida State had Pittsburgh 6 10 .375 10 12 .455 won 10 or more games in ACC play five times; he and his staff have led the Seminoles to at least 10 ACC wins Miami 4 15 .211 9 16 .360 eight times since the 2008-09 season. Wake Forest 3 15 .167 6 15 .286 Boston College 2 11 .154 4 16 .200 FLORIDA STATE SINCE THE START OF THE 2018-19 SEASON Florida State is 70-18 (.795 winning percentage) since the start of the 2018-19 season. The Seminoles finished Leonard Hamilton’s Career Record 29-8 in 2018-19, 26-5 in 2019-20 and are 15-5 this season. Since defeating Clemson on December 8, 2019, the W L Pct. Years Seminoles have won nearly 85 percent of their games with a record of 32-7 (.821 winning percentage). Career 575 436 .569 1987-Pr. at Okla. State 56 63 .471 1987-90 FLORIDA STATE IN THE ACC SINCE THE START OF THE 2018-19 SEASON at Miami 144 147 .495 1991-00 Florida State is 40-13 (.755 winning percentage) in ACC regular season play since the start of the 2018-19 season. at Florida State 375 226 .624 2002-Pr. The Seminoles finished 13-5 in 2019, 16-4 in 2020 and are 11-4 this season. ACC Operation Basketball WALKER, GRAY AND BARNES EARN ALL-ACC HONORS Predicted Order of Finish Florida State’s M.J. Walker (All-ACC Second-Team, RaiQuan Gray (All-ACC Third-Team) and Scottie Barnes (All- 1. Virginia (1) 9. Georgia Tech (4) ACC Third team) earned All-ACC honors while Barnes was named as the ACC Freshman of the Year, the ACC Sixth 2. Duke (10) 10. Clemson (5) Man of the Year and to the All-Freshman Team as the individual conference honors were announced for the 3. FLORIDA STATE (2) 11. Virginia Tech (3) 2021 season by the ACC. Barnes is just the second player in Florida State history to be named the ACC Freshman 4. North Carolina (6) 12. Notre Dame (11) of the Year joining Bob Sura (1992) and is the 12th Seminole to be named to the All-Freshman team. 5. Louisville (7) 13. Pittsburgh (12) 6. Syracuse (8) 14. Boston College (15) SEMINOLES LEAD ALL WITH THREE SELECTIONS TO ALL-ACC TEAMS 7. Miami (13) 15. Wake Forest (14) Florida State, with three selections to the All-ACC First, Second and Third teams, is the only team with three 8. NC State (10) selections to the 2021 All-ACC teams. The Seminoles’ three selections (M.J. Walker, RaiQuan Gray and Scottie Barnes) were the most by any one school and made Florida State one of just three teams (Georgia Tech, 2; Virginia, 2) with multiple selections listed among the top 16 players in the nation’s best conference. HAMILTON AMONG ALL-TIME GREATEST ACC COACHES Florida State Basketball / National Polls Florida State Head Coach Leonard Hamilton enters the 2021 ACC Tournament as the fifth winningest coach in ACC history ASSOCIATED PRESS POLL with 375 career wins at Florida State. Hamilton became only the sixth coach in the illustrious history of the nation’s best R. Team 20-21 Rec. basketball conference to win 350 career games with the Seminoles’ victory over Miami on January 18, 2020. 1. Gonzaga (61) 24-0 2. Baylor (2) 21-1 Hamilton in ACC History 3. Illinois 20-6 Rank Coach, School Career Wins 4. Michigan 19-3 1. Mike Krzyzewski, Duke 1,096 5. Iowa 20-7 2. Dean Smith, North Carolina 879 6. Alabama 21-6 3. Roy Williams, North Carolina 482 7. Houston 21-3 4. Gary Williams, Maryland 463 8. Arkansas 21-5 5. Leonard Hamilton, Florida State 375 9. Ohio State 18-8 10. West Virginia 18-8 FLORIDA STATE ANNOUNCES CONTRACT EXTENSION FOR BASKETBALL COACH LEONARD HAMILTON 11. Kansas 19-8 Florida State University Vice President and Director of Athletics David Coburn announced on March 1 that Florida State has 12. Oklahoma State 18-7 extended the contract with head basketball coach Leonard Hamilton through the 2024-25 season. “Coach Hamilton has 13. Texas 17-7 done so much for this basketball program and this university that it is hard to express in words,” said Coburn. “What he 14. Villanova 16-5 does with his young men, both on and off the court, is truly remarkable.