Florida State has struggled this season, at first probably because Leonard Hamilton has a young team and second because injuries have decimated his roster. He’s missing Naheem McCleod, Malik Osborne, Anthony Polite and Caleb Mills. RayQuan Evans is back from his, but he hasn’t been particularly effective. And going into the Virginia game, they’d lost eight of nine.
And while this year’s Virginia team is clearly not as good as it usually is under Tony Bennett, they know how to manage late-game situations, as we saw at Duke.
So normally, when you have a situation where Florida State has to hit a last-second shot from way past the three point line, with just one second left on the clock, well.