{"id":617355,"date":"2026-04-19T15:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617355\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:40:15","slug":"colorado-transfer-sebastian-rancik-commits-to-florida-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617355\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado transfer Sebastian Rancik commits to Florida State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado transfer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/sebastian-rancik-175599\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Rancik<\/a> visited Kentucky earlier this week, but he\u2019s going with Florida State instead. The 6-foot-11 forward broke the news to On3\u2019s Joe Tipton on Sunday morning that he\u2019s committed to play for the Seminoles in 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>A rising junior who played two years with the Buffs, Rancik averaged 12.3 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 2.0 assists with shooting splits of 40\/33\/86 in 2025-26. He scored in double figures on 20 separate occasions last season with three double-digit rebounding efforts \u2014 including one double-double. Rancik drew fouls and knocked down free throws at a solid rate (No. 4 in the Big 12 in FT%, 4.4 FTA) while also having seven multi-steal games and four multi-block efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Rancik ranks as the No. 109 overall player and No. 30 at his position in the On3 Portal Industry Rankings. He was a four-star prospect ranked No. 71 nationally and No. 10 among power forwards out of high school in 2024. Kentucky will now turn its full attention to Syracuse forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/donnie-freeman-150963\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donnie Freeman<\/a>, who remains high on the Wildcats\u2019 portal Big Board.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Transfer Portal SZN on KSR+<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever been curious about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/sites\/kentucky-wildcats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KSR+<\/a>, our premium sister site, now is the time to try it out. We\u2019re doubling down our efforts to bring you bonus coverage of the Cats and the intel and analysis you can\u2019t get anywhere else. Subscribe now for an inside look at a pivotal offseason for Mark Pope and Kentucky Basketball and Will Stein\u2019s first year at the helm of Kentucky Football, along with access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/boards\/forums\/ksboard.172\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KSBoard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/boards\/forums\/the-house-of-blue.516\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">House of Blue<\/a>, the most vibrant message board communities in BBN.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/sites\/kentucky-wildcats\/join\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Join the club right now for 50% off an annual subscription.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado transfer Sebastian Rancik visited Kentucky earlier this week, but he\u2019s going with Florida State instead. The 6-foot-11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,299460,299461,85],"class_list":["post-617355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-kentucky-basketball","tag-sebastian-rancik-24-j-serra-catholic","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}