NCAA Basketball: Top 25 team frontcourts heading into 2021-22 season

The Seminoles lost plenty of size and production from this past season in leading scorer Raiquan Gray, point/forward, and eventual top-5 NBA Draft pick Scottie Barnes, and starting center and double-digit scorer Balsa Koprivica. And even with all that, Florida State comes into the 2021-22 campaign as one of the biggest teams in the country yet again.

The theme for Coach Leonard Hamilton’s teams has been having a ton of depth and size inside to wear out opponents over a 40-minute span. And considering the success in ACC play recently, it’s been an effective strategy. They’ll be using a committee approach this season, likely starting 7’1 center Tanor Ngom, before using 7’3 Junior College transfer (Chipola College) Naheem McLeod and 6’11 big Quincy Ballard.

There’s also plenty of depth available at the power forward spot. 6’9 forward Malik Osborne was an effective player off the bench last season and will be elevated to start as a season. And after struggling to get on the court at Kentucky, transfer forward and former top-30 prospect Cam’Ron Fletcher should carve out a solid role for Florida State. And that doesn’t even include top-60 freshman John Butler Jr., who can play both forward and center and is talented enough to get minutes as a freshman, even with the bevy of bigs already on the roster.

While there isn’t a proven “star” on the current roster, the Seminoles deserve the benefit of the doubt that either someone will emerge next season or it’ll be a truly collective effort to find a way to get as much production as possible in the frontcourt.