{"id":269235,"date":"2026-05-13T10:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269235\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:16:26","slug":"fsu-and-famu-to-open-2026-27-basketball-season-in-first-matchup-since-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269235\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU and FAMU to open 2026-27 basketball season in first matchup since 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Florida State and Florida A&amp;M, after taking the first steps towards renewing its cross-town series last season, will open the 2026-27 season against each other in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The news was first reported by Mark Long of the Associated Press, who says the matchup will be played in Tampa as part of a doubleheader that includes Florida taking on Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The two programs faced off in an exhibition matchup last season, the first on-court action between the two schools since an ill-fated 1991 game that was ended by forfeit after a brawl broke out following a layup by then-FSU player and current FAMU head coach Charlie Ward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rattlers went 15-16 (11-7 SWAC) in Ward\u2019s first season, finishing tied for second in the SWAC and falling three points short of making the conference tournament title game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The last fully played matchup in the series occurred on December 7, 1982 \u2014 an 81-79 Florida State win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Overall, FSU holds an undefeated 5-0 record in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida State and Florida A&amp;M, after taking the first steps towards renewing its cross-town series last season, will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[9839,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-269235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-florida-state-mens-basketball","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}