NC State, Florida State Are Facing, Opposing Each Other Once During 2025-2026 Regular Season As They're Facing, Opposing Each Other Saturday At Noon In Tallahassee
Atlantic Coast Conference opponents, teams either face, oppose each other once or twice during 2025-2026 regular season!
NC State, Florida State are facing, opposing each other once during 2025-2026 regular season as they’re facing, opposing each other Saturday at noon in Tallahassee.
Where?
On the hardwood!
NC State comes into the only match up with Florida State with record of 11-5 overall 2-1 in the Atlantic Coast Conference is sixth in the standings because they won their previous Atlantic Coast Conference game on Tuesday January 6, 2025 at Boston College by score of 79-71 as NC State won the only meeting of the 2025-2026 regular season with Boston College Tuesday in Chestnut Hill Massachusetts 79-71 as Matt Able who is a freshman who is a guard was 4-7 on field goals , 3-4 on 3 pointers , 0-1 on free throws to go along 6 rebounds , 2 assists , 11 points. Terrance Arceneaux who like Matt Able is a guard though unlike Matt Able is a junior was 4-6 on field goals , 3-3 on 3 pointers , 1-2 on free throws to go along with 12 points. Darrion Williams who is a forward a senior was 8-18 on field goals , 4-7 on 3 pointers , 2-4 on free throws to go along with 4 rebounds , 2 assists, 22 points.
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Following NC State winning the only match up with Boston College 79-71 Tuesday night in Chestnut Hill Massachusetts Terrance Arceneaux who like Matt Able is a guard though unlike Matt Able is a junior was 4-6 on field goals , 3-3 on 3 pointers , 1-2 on free throws to go along with 12 points shared his thoughts by saying “[I’ve been] staying ready, waiting for my opportunity,”. “I had a shaky start with the [achilles] injury and stuff like that — things weren’t going my way — but staying confident in myself, in my game.”
Following NC State winning the only match up with Boston College 79-71 Tuesday night in Chestnut Hill Massachusetts Darrion Williams who who is a forward a senior was 8-18 on field goals , 4-7 on 3 pointers , 2-4 on free throws to go along with 4 rebounds , 2 assists, 22 points shared his thoughts missing shots by saying It’s frustrating, obviously,”“I hate missing I’m a perfectionist when it comes to basketball, but my teammates never gave up me, and Coach kept telling me to shoot. That’s all I really needed. Tonight, they were falling, and I’ll try to build from that.”
Following NC State winning the only match up with Boston College 79-71 Tuesday night in Chestnut Hill Massachusetts NC State Head Coach Will Wade shared his thoughts on how his team defensively played in second half by saying In the second half, the defense is away from our bench, so the as a staff, we can’t communicate as much,”
The first half wasn’t perfect, but it was a little bit better than that, so we’ve got to be able to lift our communication with the defense. I thought our guys did communicate pretty well for the game. I thought we had pretty good energy, thought we had good juice to us, especially in a different environment than usual in the ACC. That presents some different challenges, but really we just gotta lift our communication. We have to improve that.”
According to Jadyn Watson Fisher News & Observer article https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/nc-state/article314058254.html
Florida State comes into the only match up of 2025-2026 regular season with record of 7-8 overall is 0-2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference is seventeenth in the standings because they’ve lost two straight Atlantic Coast Conference games including one to Duke on Saturday January 3, 2026 in Tallahassee who in week 9 AP Top 25 poll is ranked 6th. In Florida State’s loss to 6th ranked Duke four players scored in double figures Chauncy Wiggins who is a forward a senior was 8-11 on field goals , 4-5 on 3 pointers , 2-2 on free throws to go along with 3 rebounds, 3 assists , 22 points . Martin Somerville who is a guard a sophomore was 3-6 on field goals , 2-5 on 3 pointers , 2-2 on free throws to go along with 1 rebound , 3 assists , 10 points . Robert McCray V who is a guard a senior was 7-10 on field goals , 3-4 on 3 pointers to go along with 2 rebounds, 5 assists , 22 points. Kobe Magee who is a guard a senior was 6-11 on field goals , 4-7 on 3 pointers to go along with 2 rebounds, 2 assists , 17 points.
As a team Florida State shot 31-58 on field goals for 53 % were 14-30 on 3 pointers.
Following Florida State’s 91-87 loss to Duke on Saturday January 3, 2026 Florida State Head Coach shared his thoughts by saying I'm going to keep saying I'm not a big moral victory guy, but you can see and you can feel the improvement of this team,"We've got to get over the hump. We've got to put it all together.I am happy with our effort, but I am not happy with the result," he added.
According to Chris Nee 247 Sports article https://247sports.com/college/florida-state/article/fsu-mens-basketball-gives-no-6-duke-all-they-can-handle-but-falls-short-in-the-end-26920
Tip off is set for 12:00pm from Tucker Center!
The game is going to be televised on ACC Network with Doug Sherman, Scott Williams commentating!
Doug Sherman has been announcing college baseball, men’s and women’s college basketball and college football games for ESPN since 2003.
He was the sports director at WRGB-CBS 6 for more than 20 years. Prior to that, Sherman worked as a sports reporter for WSTM-NBC-3 in Syracuse N.Y., and was also the play-by-play announcer for the Syracuse Chiefs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals.
After graduating from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1988 with a bachelor of science degree in broadcast journalism, the New York native stayed in his home state and nearby his alma mater to become the sports director at WPTR radio from October 1988 – March 1993.
According to https://espnpressroom.com/us/bios/doug-sherman/
Scott Williams was a forward for North Carolina as a freshman in 1986-1987 as a sophomore in 1987-1988 as a junior in 1988 -1989 as a senior in 1989 1990 where he played in 138 games averaged 10.9 points 6.2 rebounds, 0.9 assists before going on to play professionally in the NBA where he was a center, power forward where he was a 3x NBA Champion played in 746 games averaged 5.1 points per game , 4.7 rebounds per game , 0.6 assists per game. From 1990 -1994 Scott Williams played for Chicago. From 1994- 1999 Scott Williams played for Philadelphia before playing for Milwaukee from 199-2001 before playing for Denver in 2001-2002 before playing part of 2003-2004 season for Phoenix, Dallas before finishing up his NBA playing career in 2004-2005 with Cleveland.
According to https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/scott-williams-1.html
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/willisc01.html