What to make of Florida State? This program was humming along near the top of the ACC before Covid hit. It has been highly competitive for a while as Leonard Hamilton fine-tuned the machine, plugging in gifted athletes to his high-volume rotation and just kept things rolling.
Between 2016-17 and 2020-21, the Covid season excepted, the Fightin’ Hammies made the NCAA four straight seasons, getting to the round of 32, the Sweet 16 twice and the Elite Eight in 2018. You may remember this game - it was when Hamilton inexplicably declared to reporter Dana Jacobson that “the game was over” when Michigan was up four with :11 seconds to go.