Rosario enjoying different viewpoint this time around
OMAHA, Neb. — For 10 exhilarating days last year, Mike Rosario watched from afar as his teammates made a deep run in the NCAA Tournament.
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OMAHA, Neb. — For 10 exhilarating days last year, Mike Rosario watched from afar as his teammates made a deep run in the NCAA Tournament.
OMAHA, Neb. – When Billy Donovan met with the rest of his staff Thursday night to discuss stopping one of the best big men in the country, he already knew which Florida player could get the job done.
After the Gators’ lone win in the Southeastern Conference Tournament, Patric Young sat next to his locker in the home dressing room of New Orleans Arena and fielded the same question four times — answering each inquiry with a positive response.
After suffering through five losses this season against some of the nation’s most highly regarded defenses, the Gators thought they were prepared for anything an NCAA Tournament team could possibly throw at them.
Five months ago, by his own admission, Brad Beal was comfortable with deferring to the rest of the Gators’ veteran guards after four years of carrying the scoring load in high school.
Like most other NCAA Tournament teams at the moment, the Gators are going into their preparation for this week’s opening-round game largely blind.
Before the Gators knew their seeding or what far reaches of the country the NCAA Tournament selection committee would send them this week, they sat in the visitors locker room at New Orleans Arena on Saturday confident of their completed resume.
A day after Billy Donovan called the 3-point line “the greatest equalizer” in college basketball, Erik Murphy spent his Saturday afternoon seemingly hammering in his coach’s point.
NEW ORLEANS— Brad Beal and Erik Murphy shared a similar wish in the final seconds of the Gators’ opening Southeastern Conference Tournament game.
Nearing the end of his sophomore season, Patric Young is used to hearing he can’t consistently produce in the post.
The Gators are on the verge of their first three-game losing streak in nearly two years.
NASHVILLE -- By the time John Jenkins hit his game-high sixth 3-pointer, Brad Beal was willing to place the Vanderbilt guard in the same breath as his favorite NBA player.
NASHVILLE — The Gators came into Nashville, Tenn., knowing the senior-laden Commodores were starving for an emotional lift in their final home game of the season.
In Florida’s last meeting with Vanderbilt, Billy Donovan decided to wait before throwing his full-court press at the Commodores, allowing both teams to enjoy nearly three opening minutes of clean, turnover-free basketball.
On a weekend when the Southeastern Conference crowned Kentucky as its regular season champion, Billy Donovan wondered aloud in a back hallway of Georgia’s Stegeman Coliseum if his team noticed it still had something to play for.
ATHENS, Ga. — After Florida lost Will Yeguete to a season-ending injury, Billy Donovan said he had a new vision of how his team would play in its last three regular season games heading into March.
In the coming weeks, there might be a game when you forget he is gone.
Before he knew Will Yeguete’s left foot was indeed broken, Billy Donovan rattled through the list of backup point guards and little-used substitutes he could call on to replace Florida’s injured power forward.
Brad Beal could not repeat what he heard at halftime in Florida’s locker room.
The bombardment has lasted 60 minutes, so far.