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On Saturday night, No. 3 Florida couldn’t escape the number three in the SEC Championship in Birmingham, Alabama. Placing third, the Gators collected three perfect scores, performing the best in the third rotation: the uneven bars. Three gymnasts, senior Leanne Wong, senior Riley McCusker and junior Selena Harris-Miranda, also collected SEC awards.
Walter Clayton Jr. has made 101 threes this season, good 23rd in the nation. Florida’s deep-shot ability, driven by his rate, has been key to its recent dominance. In the opening round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday, that was on display again.
Florida baseball entered its Friday night game against Georgia with a 13-1 record when scoring first. UF managed to hold the lead twice — once in the first inning, and again in the eighth. Both times, the Gators let it slip away.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The story of David and Goliath dates back to the Old Testament. It tells the journey of a young boy who bravely faced and defeated a giant warrior against all odds. On Friday, the No. 16 seed in the West Region of the NCAA Tournament looked to steal a page out of David’s playbook — but to no avail.
All eyes were on court three with a three-match winning streak on the line. Despite trailing 3-0 at one point, Florida had crawled back to tie its dual match with Missouri.
After going on an unexpected run in the SEC Tournament, the Florida Gators earned an invitation to the second annual Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament. Last year, the Gators lost in round one of the tournament to St. John’s University. On Thursday night, they earned their first WBIT win in program history.
While the No. 4 Florida Gators were ahead of the North Florida Ospreys 2-0 in the top of the fourth, the offense needed a spark.
Just over two minutes into the second quarter of Thursday’s match, Florida lacrosse redshirt freshman attacker Frannie Hahn held the ball in her stick with the Gators on the man-advantage. Behind the goal, she looked towards the front of the Florida net, eyeing an opportunity.
During Todd Golden’s first spring as the Florida men’s basketball head coach, he hit the recruiting trail quickly. Having only been on the job for nearly two weeks in April 2022, he made six trips to scout six possible transfers. Five misses. The sixth? A reserved-yet-vocal 6-foot-5 Belmont freshman guard.
Following a commanding 16-4 win on Tuesday, the Gators entered their game against FAMU determined to maintain momentum and bounce back from last weekend's devastating sweep. Just like it did the day before, Florida didn’t need all nine innings to get the job done.
The No. 4 Florida Gators found themselves in unfamiliar territory for a midweek matchup — a one-run contest in the top of the sixth inning.
There’s about 53 hours until Florida basketball will tip off in the NCAA Tournament. That includes three and a half hours of flights, a little over 40 minutes of bus travel and maybe a 12-hour hotel stay near the Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. When the Gators wake on Friday, they’ll have their biggest game of the season so far: No. 16 seeded Norfolk State.
Losing your first conference series of the season always stings, but three consecutive losses to No. 2 Tennessee last weekend knocked Florida five places in the NCAA rankings, down to No. 13.
Over 30,000 feet in the air, Todd Golden received a call. While donning a blue shirt that coated his chest in bold white lettering, he smiled. He expected this — maybe even spoke it into existence in his first press conference as Florida’s men’s basketball coach: “We have everything we need here to compete at the championship level.”
Jonah Marais has navigated the complexities of fame and identity since his time in the boy band Why Don’t We. The group, which played venues like Madison Square Garden and continues to hold over 6 million listeners on Spotify, announced their hiatus in 2022. Since then, Marais embarked on a solo career, using music as a means of rediscovery.
After getting swept in a doubleheader at home on Saturday by Texas, which clinched a series loss, Florida faced a gut check moment on Monday. Texas, a newcomer to the conference, looked to clinch the sweep in its first SEC series, which Florida did not allow to happen.
Last season, Florida senior guard Walter Clayton Jr. shot a go-ahead half-court heave in the final seconds of the NCAA Tournament’s first round in hopes of keeping UF’s postseason run alive. When it missed, Clayton Jr. buried his head into his jersey in agonizing defeat. However, the anguish of that loss was a key component in Florida returning its core of players.
The weather was bright and sunny in Knoxville, Tennessee, making it perfect for a day at the ballpark as Florida baseball took its third crack at one of the top teams in the country. After finding itself on the receiving end of its first run rule loss of the season on Saturday, Florida entered Sunday determined to take at least one game against the undefeated Vols in its opening SEC series.
When walking through the doors of Florida basketball’s practice facility, it’s easy to feel drawn to the shiny championship hardware safely tucked away inside a trophy case. It had previously been 11 years since the Gators added an SEC Tournament championship trophy to it. If UF could take care of business in Sunday’s SEC Title game, however, it would have a new piece of hardware to add to its collection.
As an off-the-ball guard, Walter Clayton Jr. averaged more points last season. However, as Florida entered the 2024-25 season primed for its strongest campaign in decades, it was left with a whole to fill: point guard.
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