For Florida, Thursday night’s game was supposed to produce a get back-on-track type of performance at the O’Connell Center.
Nearly 50 years ago, former Jacksonville University basketball player Artis Gilmore, along with the rest of the JU basketball team walked into a restaurant for a team dinner following a hard-fought game. Restaurant management said the team could be seated. Their only condition: African American players on the team had to eat in the kitchen.
For the first time since 2016, Florida women’s basketball has won its first two games of the season.
One of the first things I did as a UF student was buy season tickets for football.
The Gators volleyball team continues to roll in SEC play.
The game seemed well in hand.
The UF men’s basketball team likely had plenty on its mind after dropping its sixth-straight game to the Florida State Seminoles on Sunday. It was unlikely that any of it was positive.
Coach Cam Newbauer reached a personal milestone Sunday afternoon, but he didn’t know it until after Florida’s women’s basketball team defeated Longwood 71-54 at the O’Connell Center.
One by one, the basketballs sailed through the air, launching off the fingers of UF shooters from all over the court.
Having Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Gardner Minshew in town put the spotlight on Mississippi State on Sunday afternoon as he watched his younger sister Callie from the bleachers.
Yes, the Gators won the game. And yes, the box score looks good.
What a difference a week makes.
It wouldn’t have been much of a consolation. But at least it would have been something.
Utter dominance.
Nothing about Florida’s volleyball team’s match against Ole Miss on Friday night made much sense.
The sweet aroma of fried chicken and hamburgers on the grill fills the air as I walk around campus Saturday morning. It’s here. Football season has arrived.
After a successful fall season, Florida’s men’s and women’s tennis teams will finish their season out west.
The Florida-Florida State rivalry will take on a different look Friday.
After its longest break of the season, the Gators volleyball team will hit the court – for real — for the first time in over a week.
To say that Florida’s women’s basketball team struggled on the road last season is an understatement.
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