Billy Donovan and the Florida men’s basketball team returned to Gainesville from Columbia, South Carolina, with what he considers their best win of the season so far.
Florida may have been two players short in its Southeastern Conference opener against South Carolina on Wednesday, but it wasn’t short on production.
The bar is set unexpectedly high for Florida’s first Southeastern Conference game of the season. The Gators (7-6) will face South Carolina (9-3) in Columbia at 7 p.m.
I had thoughts, many of them about how this Florida basketball team would end up — it appears I thought wrong.
The Gators had a full winter break as they tackled their final four non-conference games of the season. Florida (7-6) saw mixed results with two losses and two wins over the past three weeks.
Florida’s first game of the new year was no different from the Gators’ performance in the previous year.
TALLAHASSEE — Jacob Kurtz was just trying to make a play.
Two teams emerged victoriously from the Orange Bowl Classic in Sunrise, Florida on Dec. 20: the Florida Gators and the Florida State Seminoles. Now, the two will face off in their first games since as the Gators (7-4) will face in-state rival Florida State (7-5) on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Donald L. Tucker Center in Tallahassee.
SUNRISE, Fla. — Billy Donovan was managing quite a few spinning plates at the Orange Bowl Classic in Sunrise, Florida, on Saturday.
Florida coach Billy Donovan will be paying closer attention to his team’s fall semester grades than usual, with the structure of UF’s lineup against Wake Forest Saturday depending on when the grades are posted.
In Florida’s (6-4) third consecutive win since falling to No. 11 Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas on Dec. 5, the Gators defeated Jacksonville (2-9) 79-34 on Sunday.
Despite some early foul trouble, Florida (5-4) defeated Texas Southern (1-7) 75-50 at the O’Connell Center on Friday night.
With seven dunks from four players, Florida played true to its identity against Yale.
With forward Dorian Finney-Smith returning to the starting lineup, Jacob Kurtz started the game from the bench.
In Florida’s highest scoring game of the season, the Gators (4-4) defeated the Yale Bulldogs (8-3) 85-47 in the O’Connell Center on Monday night.
Florida freshman Devin Robinson said the Gators lost to the Kansas Jayhawks because they were afraid of losing.
After owning a 15-point lead at Allen Fieldhouse coming out of halftime, the Gators (3-4) ultimately fell, following a season long trend.
UF coach Billy Donovan said he has no good memories at Allen Fieldhouse — the infamous home court of No. 11 Kansas.
Patric Young’s basketball career is far from over.
After Florida’s (3-3) loss against Miami by just two points on Nov. 17, coach Billy Donovan knew he had to find a way to help starting point guard Kasey Hill.
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