In sports there are times when the crowd knows there is a comeback on its way. There are times when an underdog David topples a green-and-gold Goliath.
For the second time in a week, a top-four team graced a sold-out O'Connell Center with its presence.
The Gators men’s basketball team welcomes No. 1 Baylor to the O’Dome on Saturday in the Big 12/SEC Challenge, making this the third season in a row that Florida has faced the top team in the country. UF has also never won a regular-season matchup against a No. 1 team, losing its last 13 attempts.
A tenth of a second proved to be the difference between the Gators and LSU on Tuesday.
Forward Keyontae Johnson caught an inbounds pass with 0.5 seconds to go in the game.
Florida men's basketball's current three-game stretch -- which started with Auburn on Saturday -- is easily its toughest portion of the schedule this season.
One would never mistake point guard Andrew Nembhard for Michael Jordan.
The Florida men’s basketball team suffered one of its most mortifying losses of the season after what seemed like a Missouri shootaround on Saturday night.
Florida forward Keyontae Johnson was lying on the ground after colliding with Ole Miss forward Blake Hinson with 4:14 to go in the first half on Tuesday.
Florida returned to Gainesville wanting to show that giving up 91 points during a 16-point drubbing in its last contest wasn’t going to be the new norm.
The Gators were coming off one of their most convincing wins to date. With their best player in forward Kerry Blackshear Jr. on the bench most of the night due to early foul trouble, they pulled out a convincing 81-68 win at Columbia, South Carolina against the Gamecocks on Tuesday.
The distance from the O’Connell Center to Mizzou Arena is 1,008 miles.
Last season, Florida’s men’s basketball team sleepwalked through the beginning of SEC play, starting 1-3.
Florida’s leading scorer and rebounder, forward Kerry Blackshear Jr., found himself on the bench for the majority of the night after some early foul trouble.
Florida’s men’s basketball team somehow emerged from its game against Alabama on Saturday with a 104-98 win despite trailing by as much as 21. The Gators overcame a 14-point deficit at the start of the second half to force overtime and eventually win in double overtime to complete the largest second-half comeback in program history.
Florida trailed 83-81 with just under 30 seconds to play.
There were a few expectations for the Gators ahead of their final non-conference game before SEC play starts next weekend.
UF forward Kerry Blackshear Jr. stepped up to the free-throw line looking to give his team the lead.
Guard Tre Mann took the basketball and drove into the lane, taking on a defender. He jumped, bent his body in a way that seemingly defied all laws of physics and laid the ball up over the defender’s outstretched arms and into the basket.
A Florida Gators legend will be back in Gainesville in February to accept a special tribute.
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