UF beat Tennessee for the third time ever, entertained the second-largest crowd in school history and showed a national television audience why it deserves to be mentioned with the best teams in the country.
The Gators' reward for doing all that? A trip to preseason Southeastern Conference favorite and current No. 24 Vanderbilt.
The No. 9 Gators (22-2, 8-1 SEC) will try to get an important road win tonight at 8 at Memorial Gymnasium against the Commodores (18-6, 7-2 SEC) to keep pace with Auburn at the top of the conference standings.
"It's a shortened celebration, that's for sure," UF coach Amanda Butler said. "We knew that. We wanted the team to enjoy - as we always do on our Sunday wins - enjoy this tonight. You got a day off. Rest your bodies. Reflect back on the things that were good, and then on Tuesday get ready to refocus."
Butler said it's hard to let off the gas after beating the Volunteers because playing the Commodores will be just as much a challenge in a hostile environment.
Before and after UF's win against Tennessee, Butler told her team it doesn't get a bonus point for beating the Volunteers.
It was just one more SEC game, and so is the game against Vanderbilt.
"Our team is mature enough to handle that," Butler said. "We can talk about that and make it a possibility, but I don't know why they would treat this Sunday to Thursday any different than we have the other ones."
The Gators have an opportunity to do something they haven't done yet in conference play: beat a high-quality opponent on the road.
Their three SEC road wins came against the bottom three teams in the conference standings.
What better place to start than trying to tackle the SEC's preseason No. 1 team on its home floor?
"It's almost like you've got to double-focus because it's a road game," senior forward Marshae Dotson said.
UF has won a school-record seven straight SEC games and is off to the program's best start after 24 games.
The Gators are in the heart of their toughest stretch of the season, with a trip to LSU, a team that has been to five straight Final Fours, looming Sunday.
But Vanderbilt is not just a sandwich game. The Commodores have the Gators' full attention.
"Coach Butler ain't going to let us lose focus," guard Sha Brooks said Tuesday. "I'm pretty sure today's going to be even 10 times more intense (in practice) just to show us that we can't get relaxed and we can't get comfortable with being ranked No. 9. We still want to strive and hopefully be up there at No. 1 and No. 2."
If practice was anything near as intense as Butler's prepractice interviews, then Brooks was right about her team's focus.
Butler sat and rode her workout bike Tuesday while at the same time watching film of Vanderbilt, remote in her left hand and giving out-of-breath answers to reporters' long-winded questions.
It appears the Gators' intense coach has herself and her team as focused as ever.
