To see that last season was a good time for FSU basketball would be sort of an understatement based on years past. For the first time in nearly two decades, the Seminoles finished second in the ACC regular season standings and made it back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in five seasons before losing in the second round to Xavier.
It was that early exit that had many in garnet and gold worried considering the amount of talent that the Noles were going to lose – and whether that was their best chance to make a deep run for a few years to come.