It was a bounce-back week for Florida State on the hardwood. The Seminoles came back from a 3-game losing streak with wins over Clemson and Miami.
As a result, FSU is 15-5 and now 3-4 in the ACC. Here’s our weekly look at where experts currently have the Seminoles slated in the brackets.
Projections
ESPN: West Region No. 7 vs. (10) Baylor in Salt Lake City (Jan. 29)
CBS Sports: South Region No. 6 vs. (11) Baylor in Des Moines (Jan. 28)
SB Nation: East Region No. 7 vs. (10) Indiana in Des Moines (Jan. 29)
NBC Sports: Midwest Region No. 7 vs. (10) Ohio State in Tulsa (Jan. 24)
Summary
Both ESPN’s Joe Lunardi and CBS Sports’ Jerry Palm have FSU facing Baylor, but in different brackets and as different seeds. Palm gives FSU the highest seeding of any of the experts as a No. 6 seed in the South Region. Lunardi has the Seminoles and Bears meeting in the No. 7 vs. 10 match-up in the West Region.
FSU is 3-0 all-time against Baylor with the last meeting coming on Christmas Day 2010 in the Diamond Head Classic. Like Lunardi, both NBC Sports’ Dave Ommen and SB Nation’s Chris Dobbertean slate FSU as a No. 7 seed. Like Palm, Dobbertean puts FSU in Des Moines.
Dobbertean has the latest bracket released on Monday with FSU facing 10th-seeded Indiana in the East Region. FSU is 0-4 all-time against the Hoosiers with the last meeting coming in the 1992 preseason NIT. Two of those meetings came in the NCAA Tournament with the 1992 Sweet 16 match-up being the most recent.
NBC Sports’ Dave Ommen’s bracket was published before FSU’s 78-66 win over Miami on Sunday night. Ommen puts FSU in the East Region in Tulsa against Ohio State. The Buckeyes are 6-0 all-time against the Seminoles with the most recent match-up being a 58-44 win for Ohio State in the 2010 ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
The only contest for FSU this week comes against Georgia Tech on Saturday. The Yellow Jackets are currently nowhere to be found in any of the bracket projections.
Mike Ferguson is the editor of The Daily Nole. Follow Mike on Twitter @MikeWFerguson
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