FSU basketball will be making
what has become a yearly trip to South Florida in December, where they will
face Oklahoma State this coming year.
It
has become a tradition of late for fans of FSU basketball who happened to live
in the South Florida area – being able to see their Seminoles live in action
twice each season without having to make the trip to Tallahassee. In addition
to the yearly meeting with ACC and in-state rival Miami, the Noles have taken
part in the annual Orange Bowl Basketball Classic each of the past
five seasons.
In
2017-18, you can make it six seasons in a row. The Orange Bowl Committee announced on Monday that Florida State
will be returning to Sunrise on December 16th, where they will face Oklahoma
State as part of a doubleheader, with Florida facing Clemson in the other game
that day inside the BB&T Center, the home arena of the NHL’s Florida
Panthers.
The
24th annual tournament will be the ninth time that FSU basketball has taken
part in the event. The Seminoles lost their first game during the sixth
annual tournament in 1999 against UMass. They returned to Broward County in
2005, beating Nebraska, and in 2008 to defeat Western Kentucky. Over the last
five seasons, Leonard Hamilton’s team has defeated Tulsa, UMass, USF, Florid
Atlantic and Manhattan.
Despite
losing their top two scores from last year in Dwayne Bacon and Jonathan Isaac –
along with Xavier Rathan-Mayes and Michael Ojo – the Seminoles return Terance
Mann and C.J. Walker to go along with a recruiting class inching closer to
being ranked in the top 10, thanks in part to the verbal commitment of five
star prospect M.J. Walker.
The
two teams have met just once all time, with the Cowboys coming out on top
during the 1964-65 season. It will be the first time that Hamilton, who coached
in Stillwater for four seasons before taking the job at Miami, has coached
against his former school.
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