{"id":43500,"date":"2025-11-12T07:44:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43500\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T07:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:44:33","slug":"fsu-earns-26th-ncaa-berth-to-host-samford-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43500\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU Earns 26th NCAA Berth, to Host Samford Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 The Florida State soccer team will host the NCAA Tournament First Round against Samford on Friday, November 14, at 5 p.m. ET. FSU is seeded No. 3 in its bracket.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTickets are on sale now at <a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.evenue.net\/events\/GT25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seminoles.com\/Tickets<\/a>. A ticket will be required for all fans, and the first 100 students will receive free admission with a valid FSU ID.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Seminoles will make their 26th NCAA Tournament appearance, all consecutively since 2000. FSU will host the First Round for a 21st time and for the 16th time in the last 17 years, with the lone exception being the all-neutral-site 2020 tournament contested in the spring of 2021. Florida State is 24-0-1 all-time in the First Round, with 2004 the only year the team did not advanced.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRanked No. 6 in the latest national polls, FSU enters the NCAA Tournament with a 10-2-4 record and a 6-2-2 mark in the ACC to finish in fourth place. The Seminoles played three of the four No. 1 seeds in this year&#8217;s tournament, going 1-2-1 against those three teams.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe SoCon regular-season and postseason champions, Samford is 13-2-5 on the season and 7-0-2 in conference play. The Bulldogs have won seven in a row and are unbeaten in their last 17 games.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFlorida State and Samford will square off for the sixth time overall and the fourth time in the NCAA Tournament. A year ago in Tallahassee, FSU posted an 8-0 victory in the First Round. The Seminoles are 5-0-0 all-time against the Bulldogs and 4-0-0 at home.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe winner of Friday evening&#8217;s First Round game will advance to the Second Round and face the winner between No. 6-seed Mississippi State and Lipscomb on November 20 at a location to be determined.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor more information on Florida State soccer, check Seminoles.com for the latest news and scheduling information, and keep up with the team on social media through <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FSUSoccer\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter\/X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FSUSoccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> (@FSUSoccer) &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nolesoccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> (@NoleSoccer).<br \/>\n\u00a0<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 The Florida State soccer team will host the NCAA Tournament First Round against Samford on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-43500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43500","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=43500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}