Should FSU Basketball be worried about dropping bracketology prediction?

FSU Basketball went from a team that was among the top 16 teams in last year’s tournament to one that is predicted to need their road unis for the opener.

In the last three seasons, the FSU basketball team has enjoyed an up and down ride when it comes to the NCAA tournament – from getting upset in the second round as a No. 3 seed in 2017 to making the Elite Eight as a No. 9 seed in 2018 to getting to the Sweet 16 round just last season as a No. 4 seed.

For the upcoming 2019-20 season, there is very little doubt that head coach Leonard Hamilton will have the Seminoles back in the madness of March for a fourth straight season – something that has happened just one other stretch in program history – despite losing yet another group of players that included two NBA draft picks.

However, for a second straight time one of the major voices in the world of picking the annual tournament of teams again has the FSU basketball team much lower than he did at the end of the 2019 tournament.

When ESPN insider Joe Lunardi produced his first Bracketology predictions shortly after Virginia won last year’s tournament, he had the Seminoles as the No. 5 seed in the West Region (no, seriously…back to Los Angeles for the Noles) before dropping them to the No. 8 seed a month later.

Now, he has the Seminoles still in the West Region but has dropped them one more spot:

"West Region (first two rounds in Omaha)No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 16 Northern ColoradoNo. 8 Utah State vs. No. 9 FLORIDA STATE"

Now, even the most diehard FSU basketball fan can understand why the Seminoles were dropped after the first month thanks in part to the early defection of Mfiondu Kabengele to the professional game – but why on Earth would Joey Brackets possibly have the Noles drop even one spot lower when nothing has gone on?

In the regular season, the Noles know they will play – at this point – seven teams predicted to make the tournament, including five teams from the ACC as well as rival Florida and SEC member Tennessee.

If this were to come true and the Seminoles did get the No. 9 seed, it would be just the third time in program history – with the first time being the afore mentioned Elite Eight run in 2018 and a first round loss in 2010 to Gonzaga.