Florida Southern Moccasines NCAA Basketball News

It was a long time coming for Terrance Shannon. The Florida State freshman forward has done enough basketball watching to last a lifetime.

Jacinta Monroe scored 14 points to lead No. 12 Florida State to a 78-50 victory over Alcorn State on Sunday.

21 Florida State overcame a slow start and poor first-half shooting to defeat outsized Florida International 82-62 on Sunday.

Something has to change. It just has to. Otherwise, the Florida State men's basketball team is going to have an impossible time having the year it wants – and expects – to have.

Evan Turner ignited Ohio State to a 12-2 game-opening run Wednesday and the No. 15 Buckeyes went on to defeat Florida State 77-64. Turner scored 25 points and grabbed 25 rebounds.

Ohio State and Florida State each has managed to hold its own while facing some early tests during the first month of the season.

ORLANDOa ' Florida State doesn't have much that resembles an offense. That's a fact.

WHO: No. 21 Florida State at No. 15 Ohio State TIPOFF: 9:30 p.m. at the Value City Arena, Columbus, Ohio TV: ESPN2; RADIO: WHOO-1080 A.M. BUZZ: It doesn't get any easier for the Seminoles , who survived three close games over the weekend to win the Old Spice Classic at Disney's Wide World of Sports .

Few losses create confidence for players, and few coaches find reason to smile after a defeat.

Through two games at this weekend's Old Spice Tournament at the Wide World of Sports, the Florida State basketball team has shown flashes of brilliance on both the offensive and defensive ends of the floor.

FSU men vs. Marquette When/where: 7:30; Milk House, Lake Buena Vista TV: ESPN2 Records: Marquette 6-0; FSU 5-1 Notable: This is the title game of the Old Spice Classic.

For the first time in 29 weeks of play during the regular season, the USC Aiken men's basketball team took the floor Saturday afternoon as an unranked squad.

Six minutes into their game against Alabama on Friday, the Florida State Seminoles had four points, six turnovers and a head coach thinking, "Gosh, here it goes again." Thirty-four minutes later however, Leonard Hamilton's team had earned a berth in the championship game of the Old Spice Classic.

Derwin Kitchen scored 16 points, Chris Singleton added 13 and Florida State beat Iona 54-49 on Thursday night at the Old Spice Classic.

Well, that was short-lived. Wea TMre talking, that is, about the optimism surrounding the Florida State basketball program.

After each of his team's three blowout wins to start the season, Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton had cautioned that his team was still very young and not nearly as efficient as he would like it to be.

With its rival Florida State coming to town and posing the most physical threat its faced all season, the Florida basketball team was hoping to prove that at least in some small way, they aren't the same, soft team they once were.

When you annually sneak up on big-time teams and upset them, the surprise factor starts to wear away.

Leonard Hamilton wanted to give Chris Singleton a double-double on his 20th birthday, but the sophomore forward just wanted to win.

Anyone who has seen Gastonia's Leonard Hamilton coach basketball knows he has an understated style and grace about his sideline demeanor that belies the competitive fires that burn within.