Florida State’s men’s basketball team nearly got to the Final Four last season, losing to Michigan in the Elite Eight.
The Seminoles returned a bunch of the pieces that went on the tournament run last year, so they were ranked accordingly in several preseason rankings.
And by early January, FSU’s strong start led to ESPN’s Joe Lunardi slotting the Noles as a three seed in his bracketology breakdown.
But the Seminoles had two things happen since Lunardi’s bracketology projection on Jan. 4: an emotional last-second loss to Duke and an injury bug.