FSU Basketball home slate gets tougher with addition of Purdue game

FSU basketball added another tournament team from last season to their home slate with the announcement of their ACC-Big Ten Challenge foe for next season.

Every single college basketball season, the FSU basketball team is having to face one of the tougher schedules in the country based on their affiliation with the Atlantic Coast Conference – traditionally one of the toughest, if not the toughest, leagues in the game – along with the annual battle with rival Florida and other non-conference tilts.

The 2018-19 schedule is going to be no different for the Seminoles and it just got one game tougher – especially the home slate for the Noles – when the conference announces the matchups for the upcoming ACC-Big Ten Challenge.

The addition of the Boilermakers, who advanced to the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA tournament last season after finishing tied for second in the Big Ten last season, means FSU basketball so far has seven teams that played in the tournament among the 11 games that have been announced for play inside the Tucker Center this coming season.

Purdue joins the Gators, who the Noles traditionally host the same season that the football teams play inside Doak Campbell Stadium, along with five teams from the ACC who made the big dance last season.

FSU basketball will also face at least three other tournament teams from last season for a known fact – as the Seminoles will travel to Syracuse, North Carolina and Virginia during the upcoming season as announced earlier last month by the conference.

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Needless to say, if the Noles are going to make it back to the NCAA Tournament for the third straight season – something the team has only done two other times in program history – it’s going to be an uphill battle based on another monster schedule staring down FSU basketball.