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FSU Basketball: Ranking 5 Hardest ACC Games This Season

By Frank Urbina

Nov 25, 2016; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Florida State Seminoles head coach Leonard Hamilton looks on during his game against the Illinois Fighting Illini in the first half of the consolation game of the NIT Season Tip-Off at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 25, 2016; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Florida State Seminoles head coach Leonard Hamilton looks on during his game against the Illinois Fighting Illini in the first half of the consolation game of the NIT Season Tip-Off at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports /
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Dec 21, 2016; Chapel Hill, NC, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams (center) reacts during the second half against the Northern Iowa Panthers at Dean E. Smith Center. The Tar Heels won 85-42. Mandatory Credit: Rob Kinnan-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 21, 2016; Chapel Hill, NC, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams (center) reacts during the second half against the Northern Iowa Panthers at Dean E. Smith Center. The Tar Heels won 85-42. Mandatory Credit: Rob Kinnan-USA TODAY Sports /

No. 3: at North Carolina (January 14th)

The only team in the ACC that can come close to boasting as much talent as Duke is North Carolina. The Tar Heels have six former McDonald’s All-Americans on the roster. They are ranked fifth on KenPom, top 10 in both offense and defense. They are one of only four schools who can make that claim.

Carolina’s only two losses thus far this season were against #5 Kentucky and #16 Indiana, two blue-blood programs with high expectations of their own. FSU basketball typically don’t have much success playing in Chapel Hill, with their last win at the Dean Smith Center coming in 2010.

Further, the Tar Heels don’t recruit “one-and-done” players like Kentucky or Duke, meaning their roster is a veteran one. Three of their four leading scorers are juniors, and the fourth is a senior. It’s safe to say that UNC is not only quite talented, but very experienced as well.

A road game at Chapel Hill will be a good teaching tool for coach Hamilton and his young Seminoles. Just don’t expect them to come out of there with a win.

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