FSU 2020 NCAA Hoops champions
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It is too late ... UCF already claimed the title for themselves.
In addition, they have dibs on the titles in baseball, softball, track and field and any other spring sport ... they are also claiming any and all club level national titles
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FSU accepted a trophy for a tournament in which they didnt play one game, so this isnt surprising
With respect to the conference tournament trophy, I think most conferences have in their protocol to award the tournament championship to the highest-remaining seed for the purpose of designating an automatic qualifier for the NCAA tournament.
Only reason I know this is because I started researching it when the Big Ten baseball tournament in Bloomington, Indiana, (2017) kept having rain delays push games to the following day and/or out of order (There was a team eliminated in that double-elimination tournament (Michigan) before the first round was officially complete (Maryland and Iowa hadn't played yet)).
The reason for this protocol is to have a champion determined by the selection committee deadline. At the time cancelling the ACC tournament was determined by the conference, the NCAA tournament hadn't been cancelled, so I understand declaring FSU the champion for that purpose.
But the state government voting to declare them the national champion is ridiculous.
So desperate for recognition, but when will administrators/legislators realize that crowning yourself champ and/or undefeated (when you're, in fact, neither) is a path to universal ridicule and nothing more?
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These kind of non-binding resolutions by state legislative bodies are not unusual. Back in 1995, the Pennsylvania legislature declared the college football polls null and void in the state and declared Penn State the 1994 national champions. There have been others too, anytime somebody feels their team got unfairly cheated out of a title. They are non-binding resolutions and have no legal force.