I’ll keep this brief and to the point.
Of Florida State’s nine losses this season, Friday night’s 58-52 loss to North Carolina State is in my opinion the worse loss of the season.
Why do I say that? The mistakes made tonight mirror exactly the very same mistakes this team made in the first week of the [...]

Florida State led by ten, 58-48, with 5:30 left in the game after Michael Snaer’s head fake driving layup.
It would be the last basket FSU would score until Luke Loucks hit a very timely three pointer from the right wing with 1:46 to play. A runner by Durand Scott just fourteen seconds earlier had given [...]

After starting several times to write up something about this game the only thing I could finally come up with is that had to be the most embarrassing last 1:24 any Florida State team has ever played.  I have not seen every game obviously. But I’ve seen a good number of them over the years [...]

If there was ever a time to beat a Tar Heel team in Chapel Hill that was nowhere near its championship year last season this was the time.
Florida State did not waste that opportunity never trailing in the game giving Leonard Hamilton his first win at North Carolina as the Seminole head coach by the [...]

Leonard Hamilton could afford to be jovial after the game. In jest Hamilton called it a game of 50 referring to the 50% from the floor, 50% from the arc and particularly noting the 50% from the free throw line the ‘Noles shot for the game.
Meanwhile Hamilton’s defense throttled the Virginia Cavaliers 69-50 for the [...]

Defense was the name of the game in the second half for the Seminoles.
In what was possibly the best defensive effort in any half this season, Florida State slapped a suffocating defense on Boston College holding the Eagles to a season low 17 points on six baskets over the final twenty minutes in beating BC [...]

There would be no miracle comeback this time for Florida State. Clemson jumped out to a 9-0 lead and despite pulling to within 9-8, the Seminoles could never get over the hump and take the lead at anytime in the game.
A flurry of points near the end of the first half culminating in a David [...]

Leonard Hamilton had a short talk with his two point guards last Wednesday. What he told them was sometimes you need to step out of your comfort zone and be aggressive.
Unselfish is not always a good thing and the usually unselfish guards responded.
Two days after Derwin Kitchen obliterated his previous career mark, Luke Loucks followed [...]

Just when it looked like Florida State would tie Maryland Michael Snaer was called for charging into Dino Gregory with 14.5 seconds left taking away Snaer’s floater in the lane. The foul proved very costly that negated a tremendous hustle play by Chris Singleton to block Adrian Bowie’s breakaway lay up a minute earlier.
Time was [...]

Forty-five seconds remained in the game. Florida State to that point was 0 for 11 from behind the three point line. That is until Derwin Kitchen hit the Seminoles’ only three pointer of the game from just left of the circle breaking a 54-54 tie.
From there the Seminoles made just enough free throws and got [...]