Florida State defeated No. 3 ranked North Carolina
The upset artists have done it again.
Florida State has looked dreadful at times this season, dropping a home game to Princeton and losing by 20 on the road to Clemson.
But when the Seminoles face one of the nation’s top five teams, FSU often delivers something special.
FSU pulled off its eighth upset of a top-five team since 2003, dismantling No. 3 North Carolina 90-57 on Saturday afternoon before a capacity crowd of 12,100 inside the Donald L. Tucker Center.
“This team has potential to play with this level of focus and execution,” Seminoles coach Leonard Hamilton said. “We’re a team that has to execute extremely well on the offensive end. . . . Sometimes we have not been sharp in those areas. Today we were exceptional.”
No one more than Deividas Dulkys, a senior shooting guard from Lithuania who enjoyed perhaps one of the best shooting performances ever by an FSU player.
Dulkys scored 32 points — 10 more than his previous career high — and sank 12 of 14 field-goal attempts and 8 of 10 3-point tries. Michael Snaer had 17 points and Okaro White added 12 points and 10 rebounds for FSU (11-6, 2-1 ACC), which snapped UNC’s nine-game winning streak.
Dulkys, who said he made 28 straight 3-pointers in the morning shootaround. started out on fire, making 6 of 7 first-half shots — including four 3-pointers — as FSU grabbed a 36-28 lead at the break. In the second half, neither he nor the Seminoles let up.
“It was awesome,” Dulkys said. “Everybody performed the way we were capable of. The team looked for me when I got hot, and it just kept rolling, rolling and rolling.”
And rolling. FSU led from the start, made a season-high 12 3-pointers and shot 30 of 62 (48.4 percent) from the floor.
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