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The surprising Seminoles travel to face the disappointing Canes in a Wednesday night matchup.

1. Leonard Hamilton’s assistant coaching tenure at Kentucky is mostly remembered for two things: A) renting a hotel room for an entire year to recruit Sam Bowie, and 2) quitting Dow Chemical after a week on the job – a job he took once he was told he couldn’t be a head coach because he was black – to go to Kentucky where he was the first black assistant in the SEC. Lost in there was the year he won a national title, and he did it in the same season a completely unknown coach at a D2 school made waves by beating Jim Calhoun’s team.