Indiana Basketball vs Florida State: 3 matchups to watch
By Alec Lasley
The Indiana basketball program turns its attention to Florida State who will come to Assembly Hall for the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
One month of the college basketball season is done, and Indiana basketball is just one of a handful of programs left that are still undefeated, but December will come at the Hoosiers extremely fast.
After not facing a power-five program through November, Indiana’s 7-0 record isn’t extremely impressive, considering its record is ranked No. 343 in the nation according to Kenpom.com
With all six games in December against power-five opponents, two of them are also in-conference opponents, Wisconsin and Nebraska. After spending all of November at Assembly Hall, the Hoosiers will also have their first true away game in addition to two other neutral site games in December.
The first opponent on the list is Florida State. After an opening night loss to Pitt, the Seminoles have rattled off seven wins, including wins over No. 6 Florida in Gainesville, and No. 17 Tennessee and Purdue at a neutral site.
Having stiff competition already, with games away from Tallahassee on their schedule, the Seminoles will enter Tuesday night battle tested, something the Hoosiers are not.
Despite losing six of its top eight scorers from a season ago, Florida State restocked with some freshmen talent as well as players making a big jump in production from a year ago.
Leonard Hamilton loves to use his bench, with 12 players seeing at least 10 minutes of action, but there are truly four players on the roster that have a go-to type player personality.
As the Hoosiers welcome the Seminoles into Assembly Hall, here are the three matchups to watch for Tuesday.