FSU basketball offseason thread: Tracking departures, pickups and returning players
TALLAHASSEE, FL - FEBRUARY 17: Head Coach Luke Loucks of the Florida State Seminoles talk with the media during the post game press conference after the game against the Boston College Eagles at the Donald L. Tucker Center on February 17, 2026 in Tallahassee, Florida. The Seminoles defeated the Eagales 80 to 72.
(Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images) | Getty Images Twelve months ago, Luke Loucks took his first-ever head coaching job and transitioned from the NBA into college basketball. He had only a few weeks to hire a staff, learn the roster, and get prepared for the portal before it opened. With a first-year head coach and a roster made up of mostly mid-major players, most outlets picked Florida State to finish at the bottom of the ACC.
Instead, Loucks proved the general public wrong and delivered a proof of concept for what his tenure at Florida State can hold. FSU finished the 2025-26 season on a tear, winning 10 of its final 13 games and finished three inches shy of defeating Duke in the ACC tournament. Instead of being a program in question, Seminoles basketball is on the rise, with people from all over the country calling.
What a difference a year makes. “We get a lot of calls from a lot of different people,” Loucks told the local Tallahassee media at his end-of-season press conference about the excitement around his program. “Especially when you (start gaining) steam and winning games and building a real program that people want to be a part of…Currently, you have agents reaching out to us, and not vice versa.
” However, the head coach will need to bring in multiple players from the portal to replace the six seniors leaving, including do-it-all point guard Robert McCray V, and other players departing the program, to maintain its trajectory. “I could see anywhere from three to five (portal pickups). Some of that will be dependent on how much money I can raise.
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