NO. 11/11 FLORIDA STATE SEMINOLES (15-4 OVERALL, 11-3 ACC) 2020-21 Florida State Schedule AT D2 North Florida W, 86-58 NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH (9-14 OVERALL, 6-11 ACC) D9 1 Indiana W, 69-67 (OT) SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2021; 12 NOON D12 Florida W, 83-71 PURCELL PAVILION D15 * Georgia Tech W, 74-61 NOTRE DAME, INDIANA D19 UCF L, 74-86 LEARFIELD IMG COLLEGE RADIO NETWORK (GENE DECKERHOFF, ADRIAN CRAWFORD) D21 Gardner-Webb W, 72-59 ESPN2 (DOUG SHERMAN, CORY ALEXANDER) D29 * at Clemson L, 67-77 J2 * Duke Postponed “Leonard Hamilton deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. He’s a good friend, he’s been a friend for a long time. J6 * at Syracuse Postponed When I was starting out at North Carolina, he was at Kentucky. What he’s done and his record ... more than likely J13 * NC State W, 105-73 he’s going to win the league again this year, second year in a row. It’s hard [to do], there’s 15 teams in this J16 * North Carolina W, 82-75 league. That right there is really, really hard. They lost two or three guys that were drafted, two of them at least J18 * at Louisville W, 78-65 I know in the first round. But he came back again and he’s playing 10 or 11 guys all the time. He is a Hall of Fame J23 * Clemson W, 80-61 coach. But that’s a Hall of Fame coach and I hope that that works out for him and the voting because he really J27 * Miami W, 81-59 deserves it.” J30 * at Georgia Tech L, 65-76 Roy Williams F2 * at Boston College Postponed University of North Carolina F6 * at Pittsburgh Postponed F9 * at Virginia Tech Postponed FLORIDA STATE PLAYS FOR REGULAR SEASON CHAMPIONSHIP AT NOTRE DAME ON SATURDAY F13 * Wake Forest W, 92-85 (OT) Florida State, which has won five of its last six and 10 of its last 12 games since a 105-73 win over NC State on F15 * Virginia W, 81-60 January 13, travels to play at Notre Dame in its final regular season game of the 2020-21 season. A victory over F20 * Virginia Tech Postponed the Fighting Irish would earn the Seminoles their second straight regular season ACC Championship. Since the F20 * at Pittsburgh W, 79-72 2000 ACC season only three programs Duke, North Carolina and Virginia) have won multiple ACC regular season F24 * at Miami W, 88-71 championships in consecutive seasons. Florida State arrives at Notre Dame having defeated Boston College, 93- F27 * at North Carolina L, 70-78 64, on Senior Night at the Donald L. Tucker Center on Wednesday night. Following Saturday’s game at Notre M3 * Boston College W, 93-64 Dame, the Seminoles will travel to Greensboro, N.C. to play in the 68th Annual ACC Tournament (March 9-13) at M6 * at Notre Dame 12 Noon the Greensboro Coliseum. Florida State will begin play in the tournament on Thursday, March 11 after earning M9-13 2 at ACC Tournament TBD the coveted double bye for the third consecutive season. *ACC Game. 1 ACC/Big Ten Challenge at Tallahassee, Back To Back ACC Regular Season Champions Since 2000 Fla.; 2 ACC Tournament Greensboro Coliseum, Team Seasons Head Coach Greensboro, N.C. Virginia 2018 and 2019 Tony Bennett North Carolina 2016 and 2017 Roy Williams 2020-21 ACC Standings Virginia 2014 and 2015 Tony Bennett Team W L Pct. W L Pct. North Carolina 2011 and2012 Roy Williams Florida State 11 3 .786 15 4 .789 North Carolina 2007, 2008 and 2009 Roy Williams Virginia 12 4 .750 16 6 .727 Duke 2000 and 2001 Mike Krzyzewski Virginia Tech 9 4 .692 15 5 .750 Louisville 8 4 .667 13 5 .722 FLORIDA STATE ANNOUNCES CONTRACT EXTENSION FOR BASKETBALL COACH LEONARD HAMILTON Georgia Tech 10 6 .625 14 8 .636 Florida State University Vice President and Director of Athletics David Coburn announced on March 1 that Florida Clemson 9 6 .600 15 6 .714 State has extended the contract with head basketball coach Leonard Hamilton through the 2024-25 season. N. Carolina 9 6 .600 15 9 .625 “Coach Hamilton has done so much for this basketball program and this university that it is hard to express in Syracuse 9 7 .5563 15 8 .652 words,” said Coburn. “What he does with his young men, both on and off the court, is truly remarkable. I know NC State 9 8 .529 13 9 .591 both the President and I regard him as a university treasure, and he is just now getting the national recognition Duke 9 8 .529 11 10 .524 he has deserved for so long. He embodies all the qualities that make a great leader, and we are proud and Pittsburgh 6 9 .400 10 10 .500 thrilled to have him as our coach as long as he wishes.” Hamilton’s student-athlete graduation rate of just over Notre Dame 6 11 .353 9 14 .391 95 percent at FSU will improve even more as eight members of his current team will earn degrees (seven as Wake Forest 3 14 .176 6 14 .300 undergraduate degrees and one as a graduate degree) this spring. Two more players will earn graduate degrees Boston College 2 10 .167 4 14 .222 in the summer of 2021. “I’ve known Coach Hamilton since he was hired in 2002 when I was chair of the FSU Miami 3 15 .167 7 16 .304 Board of Trustees,” said Florida State President John Thrasher. “He exemplifies the best of college basketball in terms of developing outstanding players and great citizens. His ability to perform his job at such a high level of Leonard Hamilton’s Career Record excellence is appreciated by the Seminole faithful, and we’re thrilled Coach Hamilton will continue to lead our W L Pct. Years program.” Career 575 435 .569 1987-Pr. at Okla. State 56 63 .471 1987-90 FLORIDA STATE IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS at Miami 144 147 .495 1991-00 Florida State enters Saturday’s game at Notre Dame ranked No. 11 in this week’s Associated Press poll and No. at Florida State 375 225 .625 2002-Pr. 11 in the USA Today Coaches Poll and are the highest ranked team in the ACC for the second consecutive week. The Seminoles’ ranking in the AP poll is tied for their highest of the season and marks the third consecutive ACC Operation Basketball season the Seminoles have been ranked in the top 11 of the AP Poll. Predicted Order of Finish 1. Virginia 9. Georgia Tech LOOK FOR FLORIDA STATE TO… 2. Duke 10. Clemson …Defeat Notre Dame and win the regular season championship of the Atlantic Coast Conference for the second 3. FLORIDA STATE 11. Virginia Tech consecutive season. The Seminoles won the first regular season championship in school history with a 16-4 4. North Carolina 12. Notre Dame conference mark during the 2019-20 season; 5. Louisville 13. Pittsburgh …Defeat Notre Dame and gain a win over the Fighting Irish at Purcell Pavilion for the second consecutive season. 6. Syracuse 14. Boston College The Seminoles defeated Notre Dame by a 73-71 margin on March 4, 2020; 7. Miami 15. Wake Forest …Defeat Notre Dame and win its 12th ACC game of the season. It would mark the third consecutive year the 8. NC State Seminoles would have won at least 12 ACC games in a single season. Florida State was 13-5 in ACC play during the 2018-19 season and finished with a school record for ACC wins in a season with a 16-4 record in 2019-20. HAMILTON AMONG ALL-TIME GREATEST ACC COACHES Florida State Basketball / National Polls Florida State Head Coach Leonard Hamilton enters Saturday’s game at Notre Dame as the fifth winningest coach in ACC ASSOCIATED PRESS POLL history with 375 career wins at Florida State. Hamilton became only the sixth coach in the illustrious history of the nation’s R. Team 20-21 Rec. best basketball conference to win 350 career games with the Seminoles’ victory over Miami on January 18, 2020. 1. Gonzaga (59) 24-0 2. Michigan (4) 18-1 Hamilton in ACC History 3. Baylor 18-1 Rank Coach, School Career Wins 4. Illinois 18-6 1. Mike Krzyzewski, Duke 1,095 5. Iowa 18-7 2. Dean Smith, North Carolina 879 6. West Virginia 17-6 3. Roy Williams, North Carolina 482 7. Ohio State 18-7 4. Gary Williams, Maryland 461 8. Alabama 19-6 5. Leonard Hamilton, Florida State 375 9. Houston 20-3 10. Villanova 15-4 FLORIDA STATE IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS 11. FLORIDA STATE 14-4 Florida State enters Saturday’s game at North Carolina ranked No. 11 in this week’s Associated Press poll and No. 11 in the 12. Arkansas 19-5 USA Today Coaches Poll and are the highest ranked team in the ACC for the second consecutive week. 13. Kansas 18-8 14. Creighton 17-6 SEMINOLES’ HAMILTON NAMED SEMIFINALIST FOR NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR 15. Texas 14-7 Florida State Head Coach Leonard Hamilton, who has led the Seminoles to a 15-4 overall record and a 11-3 mark in ACC 16. Oklahoma 14-7 play, has been named a semifinalist for the Werner Ladder Naismith National Coach of the Year Award. Hamilton is a 17. Oklahoma State 16-6 candidate for the National Coach of the Year Award for the second consecutive season.