M. Basketball Faces Nebraska On Sunday At 7:30 P.M.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla — Florida State plays in third and final game in the ESPN Events Invitational as it faces Nebraska in the State Farm Field House in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.  The Seminoles’ game against the Cornhuskers is the third game in a series with began during the 2005-06 season and is tied at one game each.  The game marks the second meeting on a neutral court and the third in the state of Florida.  The Seminoles gained their first win in the series with a 74-60 win over Nebraska at the Orange Bowl Classic in Sunrise, Fla. on December 31, 2005.  The second game of the series was in Tallahassee in the 2014 ACC / Big Ten Challenge.  Following Sunday’s game against Nebraska, the Seminoles play host to Purdue in the ACC Big Ten Challenge presented by Continental Tire at home in the Donald L. Tucker Center on November 30, 2022 at 7:15 p.m.

FLORIDA STATE VS. NEBRASKA – CONNECTIONS
Florida State faces Nebraska in the ESPN Events Invitational at Disney on November 27, 2022 at the State Farm Field House.  The Seminoles and the Cornhuskers have played twice, with both teams winning once.  Nebraska is led by Fred Hoiberg, who is in his fourth season as the Cornhuskers’ Head coach.  He has never coached against Florida State.  As a player at Iowa State (1992-95), Hoiberg faced the Seminoles once – he scored 15 points with two steals in a 109-96 Seminole win over the Cyclones at the Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center on November 20, 1992.

SEMINOLES ON THE DEFENSIVE IN ESPN EVENTS INVITATIONAL
Florida State has earned 21 steals in its first two games of the ESPN Events Invitational – 11 against Siena and 10 against Stanford.  Junior Cam’Ron Fletcher leads the Florida State with seven steals (five against Siena and two against Stanford) and Caleb Mills (four against Stanford and two against Siena) has six steals in the two games on the State Farm Field House court.  A total of seven different Seminoles have at least one steal in the first two games of the ESPN Events Invitational.

FLETCHER FROM THE BONUSPHERE
Junior Cam’Ron Fletcher is shooting .455 from the 3-point line (five of 11) in the first two games of the ESPN Events Invitational.  He made three from long range against Stanford and two from distance in the Seminoles’ game against Siena in the first round of the tournament.  Fletcher is on the best streak of his career in the last three games against Mercer…