Florida State University (FSU) has set Jameis Winston's sexual assault disciplinary hearing for Monday, Nov. 17.

John Clune, an attorney representing Winston's accuser, confirmed the hearing date to the Associated Press Tuesday. The hearing is being held to determine if Winston violated FSU's student conduct code and what any potential punishment should be.

FSU spokeswoman Browning Brooks told the AP the school will need to inform Winston of their ruling within 10 class days after the hearing, unless "additional consideration of evidence and deliberation is required."

Either Winston or the complainant can request a postponement of the hearing date, but their reasoning will be reviewed.

The hearing is scheduled two days after the second-ranked Seminoles play a road game against Miami. The following Saturday, the team will host Boston College and after that, the Seminoles play their final regular season game against Florida, also a home game. The team is currently undefeated and is hosting Virginia this Saturday.

"We aren't concerned with how the hearing correlates with football," Clune told ESPN."It is almost two years late and we are just glad to see that it is going to finally happen."

The female former FSU student claims Winston raped her on the night of Dec. 7, 2012, though she could not identify who he was until she saw him next month when classes resumed. Both FSU and the Tallahassee Police Department essentially left the case untouched until a reporter was tipped off about it in Nov. 2013. At that point, Willie Meggs, the state attorney in Tallahassee, reviewed the case and decided not to file charges against Winston, citing insufficient evidence.

"It's gratifying to our client for sure," Baine Kerr, another lawyer representing the complainant, told the AP. "Essentially nothing's happened for almost two years, now something may be happening."

David Cornwell, Winston's attorney, wrote on Twitter that his client's accuser received "20 months to file a complaint" whereas Winston only received two weeks' notice of the hearing. Clune responded by pointing out that his client never "filed" a complaint and that it is FSU's duty to investigate and adjudicate reports of sexual assault.

"Both parties got the same materials at the exact same time," Clune said. "Also, no complaint was ever 'filed' and there is no such process. A school's Title IX obligations to investigate are triggered by learning of a report of sexual assault, which happened almost two years ago in this case. If Mr. Winston has concerns about why the process took so long, a delay that kept Mr. Winston playing football, he can take that complaint up with Florida State."

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