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Florida State again blocking No. 1 Xavier basketball's path to NCAA Tournament Sweet 16

Xavier Musketeers head coach Chris Mack discusses the team's second-round game against No. 9 seed Florida State. The Enquirer/Kareem Elgazzar

NASHVILLE – Don't call Xavier basketball's and Florida State's Sunday meeting in the NCAA Tournament a rematch, at least not if you're looking at the game from the Musketeers' perspective.

Twelve months on from Xavier's dominant tournament upset of third-seeded Florida State Seminoles, the teams' meeting in the second round of the 2017 NCAA Tournament in Orlando holds little meaning for Sunday's game at the same stage of the competition.

The programs and head coaches, and even some of the players are the same, but it's hardly a like-for-like replay of last year's game.