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Florida (-11) at Florida State
Tallahassee, FL | 6:00 PM ET | ESPN2
I hope you like free throws! Florida State and Florida are two of the most physical teams in the country, and have combined for 135 free throws through two games each. The Gators' Rueben Chinyelu and the Seminoles' Marcis Ponder colliding in the paint may cause the court in Tallahassee to shatter.
The one thing consistent in Florida State's two exhibition wins against Auburn and LSU and its two easy buy-game wins is the offensive glass - the team has grabbed at least 13 offensive boards in all four of those games. That almost assuredly won't happen here against a Florida team that was seventh-nationally in defensive rebounding rate last year with this exact same frontcourt. The Seminoles are going to have to rely on its first-shot offense far more than previous games this year.
It's pretty crazy to say, but Florida State is actually the taller team here, and it will have 6-foot-8 Shon Abaev and 6-foot-11 Sebastian Rancik to guard Thomas Haugh and Alex Condon. It is rare that both those guys are matched up with someone their own size. That should also put a reasonable amount of pressure on Boogie Fland and Denzel Aberdeen to be shot creators here, but one of them will be matched up against pesky defender Anthony Robinson.
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