By: By Joseph Feldman
Wednesday, November 22
2:00 p.m. – Kennesaw State at Florida State
Location: Tallahassee, Fla. | Tucker Center
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Preview
Kennesaw State will play its second game in a row on the road at Florida State on Wednesday, November 22 at 2 p.m.
The Noles are 3-0 on the season after winning the inaugural Jamaica Classic by downing Fordham and Colorado State.
This will be the first meeting between the two schools.
Setting Up Their Teammates
Along with scoring 96 points in their exhibition against West Georgia, the Owls had 29 assists on 37 field goals.
That is the most assists KSU has had under Skinner. The previous high was 27 a season ago against North Florida.
Against Piedmont, the Owls had 19 assists on 32 field goals and only had nine turnovers.
KSU had 10 games last season with at least 19 assists.
Bench Help
Against Piedmont, the Owls outscored the Lions bench 37-17.
In the first four games, KSU's bench has averaged 20.75 points per game.
Tristan Jarrett has been a big part of the bench providing a scoring spark as the freshman has scored in double figures in two of the four games this season and is averaging 8.0 points per game.
New Look
Kennesaw State will have two new jerseys this season with a gray and a black jersey to go along with their white and gold jerseys.
The black jersey has sleeves on it making KSU one of two schools in the country to have one of its primary road jerseys to have sleeves. The other school is with a primary jersey with sleeves on it is Northwestern State.
Not only do the Owls have new jerseys this season, but KSU will be playing on a new court this season with the KS logo in the center of the floor.
Coaching Tree
Coach Skinner is one of the very few Coaches in Division 1 Basketball, to have 4 of his former assistants, currently serving as Head Coaches-Tim O'Shea at Bryant University, Ed Cooley at Providence College, Bill Coen at Northeastern & Pat Duquette at U Mass-Lowell.
Success on the Road
The Owls had some success on the road last season winning six games. That was the most road wins the team has had since KSU joined Division I. Coming down the stretch, Kennesaw State was playing really well on the road winning three of their last road games with both losses coming at FGCU.
Jankovic Steps Up in First Start
Kosta Jankovic got his first career start against Hofstra and led the team in points with 15 and rebounds with seven.
The junior forward has now started in three straight games and has scored in double figures in two of those.
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