2016–17 Florida State Seminoles men's basketball team

2016–17 Florida State Seminoles men's basketball
NCAA tournament, Second Round
ConferenceAtlantic Coast Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 24
APNo. 16
Record26–9 (12–6 ACC)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Stan Jones (15th year)
  • Dennis Gates (6th year)
  • Charlton Young (4th year)
Home arenaDonald L. Tucker Center
(Capacity: 12,100)
2016–17 ACC men's basketball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 5 North Carolina 14 4   .778 33 7   .825
No. 16 Florida State 12 6   .667 26 9   .743
No. 14 Notre Dame 12 6   .667 26 10   .722
No. 10 Louisville 12 6   .667 25 9   .735
No. 7 Duke 11 7   .611 28 9   .757
No. 24 Virginia 11 7   .611 23 11   .676
Virginia Tech 10 8   .556 22 11   .667
Miami (FL) 10 8   .556 21 12   .636
Syracuse 10 8   .556 19 15   .559
Wake Forest 9 9   .500 19 14   .576
Georgia Tech 8 10   .444 21 16   .568
Clemson 6 12   .333 17 16   .515
NC State 0 14   .000 0 17   .000[3]
Pittsburgh 4 14   .222 16 17   .485
Boston College 2 16   .111 9 23   .281
2017 ACC tournament winner
Rankings from AP poll

The 2016–17 Florida State Seminoles men's basketball team, variously Florida State or FSU, represented Florida State University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Seminoles were led by head coach Leonard Hamilton, in his fifteenth year, and played their home games at the Donald L. Tucker Center on the university's Tallahassee, Florida campus as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The Seminoles achieved their best start in school history, winning 15 of their first 16 games and six of their first seven conference games, including a stretch that included six straight ranked opponents. Over the course of the season, Dwayne Bacon became the 46th Seminole player, and only the second sophomore, to score a thousand career points. They set their record for most regular season wins, tied their record for most ACC wins in a single season and went undefeated at home for the first time since the 1975–76 season. Jonathan Isaac and Dwayne Bacon went on to be selected in the NBA draft.

Florida State finished in a three-way tie for second in the ACC and reached the semifinals of the ACC tournament. The Seminoles received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as a three-seed in the west region, their first tournament appearance since 2012, where they reached the second round.