Florida State Seminoles
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The school's athletic teams are called the Seminoles. This Native American name is used with official sanction of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. They participate in the NCAA's Division I and in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Donald L. Tucker Center, formerly the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center, serves as home to Seminole basketball. The center is a multi-purpose facility for Tallahassee and the Big Bend. The facility was so impressive that it served as host of the first round of the 1995 Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament.
The school's colors are Garnet and Gold. The colors of Garnet and Gold represent a merging of the University's past. In 1902, 1903 and 1905 the Florida State College won football championships wearing purple and gold uniforms.[54] When FSC became Florida State College for Women in 1905, the football team was forced to attend an all male school in Gainesville, thus marking the beginning of the football program at the University of Florida. The following year, the college student body selected crimson as the official school color. The administration in 1905 took crimson and combined it with the recognizable purple of the championship football teams to achieve the color garnet. The now famous Garnet and Gold colors were first used on an FSU uniform in a 14-6 loss to Stetson in a football game on October 18, 1947.
Men's basketball
Dave Cowens played collegiate basketball at Florida State University from 1966 to 1970.
Women's basketball
Florida State University women's basketball is up and coming under Head Coach Sue Semrau (UCSD 1985). Semrau has been coaching FSU since 1997.
Retired women's basketball jerseys Number 43, Sue Galkantas
Like the Florida State men's team, the Lady Noles play their basketball from the Donald L. Tucker Center. In the 2005-06 season FSU entered the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll for the first time at No. 19. The Lady Seminoles earned a #6 seed in the 2005-06 NCAA women's Tournament.
