With the NCAA tournament cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Florida State men's basketball team was declared national champions.

Lawmakers in the Florida Senate voted 37-2 to pass a resolution Friday that proclaimed the Seminoles (26-5) as "champions by default." Florida Sen. Joe Gruters, a Republican representing Sarasota County and part of Charlotte County, introduced the resolution Thursday. He graduated from FSU in 1999 and served on the school's board of trustees from 2011 to 2016.

Coach Leonard Hamilton's team won the ACC regular season title for the first time in program history, beating out Duke, Louisville and Virginia by one game. The 'Noles also were No. 4 in the Coaches Poll and a projected No. 2 seed in USA TODAY Sports' final bracketology at the time of the NCAA tourney cancellation.

The resolution rationalized that the Seminoles "were favored to challenge the top seeds in the national tournament and take home the national title." The resolution is aimed to be presented to Hamilton and FSU president John Thrasher "as a tangible token of the entiments of Florida State."

Hamilton has guided FSU to successful NCAA tournament runs, including an Elite Eight finish in 2018 and Sweet 16 in 2019.