North Carolina Heads To Tallahassee For Big Monday Matchup At Florida State
North Carolina has forty nine hours between their game at home in Chapel Hill against Boston College and their game in Tallahassee!
On Monday North Carolina who is unranked returns to action when they will take on fifth ranked Florida State.
North Carolina comes into the game with a record of 10-11 while they’re 3-7 in the Atlantic Coast Conference and fourteenth in the standings and behind Miami while Florida State comes into the game with a record of 18-3 while they’re 8-2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference and third in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings behind North Carolina’s tobacco road rival Duke. “according to http://theacc.com/standings.aspx?standings=40
As for North Carolina’s previous game, ,
They were knocked off by Boston College in Chapel Hill.
Anthony, North Carolina's star freshman point guard and leading scorer, had 26 points in his first action since he had arthroscopic surgery Dec. 16 to repair a partially torn meniscus in his right knee. His desperation 3-pointer just before the final buzzer came up short.”according to https://goheels.com/news/2020/2/1/mens-basketball-unc-bc-recap.aspx
Brandon Robinson had 12 points on 5-of-16 shooting for North Carolina (10-11, 3-7) before leaving the court injured after fouling Hamilton on the game-deciding 3-point try. “according to https://goheels.com/news/2020/2/1/mens-basketball-unc-bc-recap.aspx
Armando Bacot added 11 points and 10 rebounds, and Garrison Brooks had 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Tar Heels. North Carolina shot 22 of 61 (36%), including 4 of 19 from 3-point range.”according to https://goheels.com/news/2020/2/1/mens-basketball-unc-bc-recap.aspx
Unlike North Carolina,
Florida State won their previous game they knocked off Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
Devin Vassell tied an ACC record by shooting 7 for 7 from 3-point range and scored 27 points to lift No. 5 Florida State to a 74-63 victory over Virginia Tech on Saturday.”according to https://seminoles.com/vassells-career-high-27-points-lead-no-5-florida-state-over-virginia-tech-74-63/
Vassell helped the Seminoles (18-3, 8-2) rebound from Tuesday night’s loss at Virginia that snapped a 10-game winning streak. Florida State remained a game out of first place in the ACC standings.”according to https://seminoles.com/vassells-career-high-27-points-lead-no-5-florida-state-over-virginia-tech-74-63/
The Seminoles led for much of the first half, were ahead 34-29 at the break and held the lead the rest of the way. Florida State grabbed a 60-44 advantage on a free throw by Trent Forrest with 9:25 remaining before the Hokies scored the next nine points. They cut the lead to 60-53 on a dunk by Nahiem Alleyne with 6:23 left, but got no closer.”according to https://seminoles.com/vassells-career-high-27-points-lead-no-5-florida-state-over-virginia-tech-74-63/
Tyrece Radford paced the Hokies (14-8, 5-6) with 18 points. Virginia Tech lost its third consecutive game.”according to https://seminoles.com/vassells-career-high-27-points-lead-no-5-florida-state-over-virginia-tech-74-63/
Tip-off is set for 7:00pm from Donald L. Tucker Center. The game will be televised on ESPN.