The Hunt for the Most Interesting Team in the World is the Dagger's 2009-10 countdown preview series. Check out the overriding principles here.

Last year's record: 25-10 (10-6 ACC)

2009-2010's toughest games: at Florida, at Ohio State

Primary attraction: In 2009, the Seminoles danced for the first time in 11 years. Will they make it back to the NCAAs without star Toney Douglas?

Three items of undeniable interest:

1. Length --Jay Bilas is going to love Florida State's length. Solomon Alabi is 7-foot-1, Chris Singleton (right) is 6-foot-9 and Xavier Gibson is 6-foot-11. Along with Wake Forest, Leonard Hamilton's team should have the biggest, most athletic frontcourt in the ACC.

2. Thank you, ACC expansion -- Somehow, FSU only has to play Duke and North Carolina once each this year. I'm a staunch ACC traditionalist, so I'm already inclined to loathe how adding Boston College, Miami and Virginia Tech ruined the best basketball conference in the land. However, most of my reasons are the bizarre rantings of a solitary man with a messy apartment which may or may not contain a chicken. The unbalanced basketball schedule is a legitimate gripe though. The teams FSU could be battling it out with for third, fourth or fifth place in the ACC will each have to play Duke/Carolina three times (Georgia Tech has home-and-homes with both teams). This is obviously a huge advantage for the 'Noles.

3. Leonard Hamilton -- The FSU coach (who was once Michael Jordan's hand-picked choice to coach the Washington Wizards) always looks like he just got off work and is unwinding with three fingers of Glenlivet at a place where the bartender knows everyone's drink. He's always enjoyable to watch. His teams are never great, but they're almost never bad either. 

Solomon Alabi is really tall: