If there’s one thing UF has going for it, it’s that it doesn’t lose to bad teams.
Florida men’s basketball coach Mike White will continue saying it until he is blue in the face: Vanderbilt is a lot better than its 0-10 SEC record shows.
Florida’s men’s basketball team went face-to-face against the top-ranked team in the country on Saturday and came up short. It trailed for nearly the whole game against the superior Volunteers, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t encouraging signs for the Gators in the 73-61 loss.
It didn’t matter when guard Andrew Nembhard stole the ball in the final minute of the game off a full-court press. It didn’t matter if he dished the ball out to guard Noah Locke in the right corner for a late three.
The Gators men’s basketball team has been in a rut all season.
The Florida men’s basketball team hasn’t lost three-straight games this season. But it’ll have to pull off a major upset if it wants to keep it that way.
The angry mob of Florida fans is all over Twitter as of late, fully equipped with torches and pitchforks. Especially after the men’s basketball team lost to Auburn on Tuesday night.
Gators coach Mike White thought his team was on the turnaround.
Florida guard Jalen Hudson drove to the basket and watched the ball fall through.
All Florida could do was watch as Kentucky guard Tyler Herro drained an open three-pointer from the right corner.
There was a moment where it was up to redshirt freshman forward Isaiah Stokes to guard the paint.
KeVaughn Allen had very little time.
Freshman forward Keyontae Johnson did his best Superman impression on superhero night at the O’Connell Center. He took flight and snagged a lob thrown from under the basket by fellow freshman Andrew Nembhard and emphatically slammed it down.
The Florida men’s basketball team can best be compared to a seesaw this season, with its offense on one side and its defense on the other.
The game could have been a blowout.
Losing a game is one thing. Losing in the exact same way, over and over again, has to be torturous for Florida men’s basketball coach Mike White.
A second-half barrage saved the Gators from a devastating home loss to Texas A&M on Tuesday night. No UF player had scored 20 points in a game this season heading into the matchup with the Aggies, but KeVaughn Allen and Noah Locke scored 31 and 27, respectively.
It took 17 games for a Florida men’s basketball player to eclipse 20 points in a contest.
It rained all night long.
The last five games played out about the same way for the Florida men’s basketball team.
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