The Florida State men\u2019s basketball team is badly in need of a \u201cget-right\u201d game. The Seminoles are losers of five straight contests, with four of the five coming by 15+ points. During this stretch of stink, FSU\u2019s ranking on KenPom has plummeted from a high of 57th on November 28th to 118th.<\/p>\n
If ever there were an opponent tailor-made to be a get-right game, it\u2019s the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils. The visitors from Itta Bena, MS are 0-10 this season against Division 1 opponents and sit 365th\u2014dead last\u2014in the aforementioned KenPom rankings. MVSU comes to Tallahassee following an 88-64 home defeat at the hands of Tarleton State earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Florida State Seminoles vs. Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils: How to watch, stream, odds<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a strong case to be made that FSU\u2019s NCAA Tournament chances are already kaput. With a NET ranking of 149, the string of blowout losses will likely be too much to overcome on the metric side of things, even if FSU scored a few surprising upsets in ACC play.<\/p>\n
Having said that, despite the lopsided nature of the losses, the \u2018Noles only have 1 loss below Quad 2 and there will be plenty of Q1 and Q2 opportunities in ACC play. So in theory, if the team found a way to rack up 5-6 wins that are much more lopsided than the computers anticipate, perhaps Luke Loucks and Co. could at least make things interesting come February.<\/p>\n
Any attempt at walking that narrow path needs to start tonight. Florida State\u2019s early season rise was due to throttling a handful of teams less-bad than MVS by 25+ points. If the Seminoles don\u2019t win by at least 35 tonight, it\u2019s another sign that something has materially changed with the team over the last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida State men\u2019s basketball team is badly in need of a \u201cget-right\u201d game. The Seminoles are losers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,9839,38468],"class_list":["post-90069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-state-mens-basketball","tag-florida-state-mens-basketball-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90069","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=90069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}