A complete team effort vaulted the Florida women’s basketball team into the 24th Annual Gator Holiday Classic Championship, as the Gators handedly defeated Southern University 78-49 on Sunday afternoon in the O’Connell Center.
SUNRISE, Fla. — Billy Donovan was managing quite a few spinning plates at the Orange Bowl Classic in Sunrise, Florida, on Saturday.
Florida quarterback Treon Harris has been charged with a second-degree misdemeanor for operating a motor vehicle without a valid license, first reported by the Gainesville Sun. The University of Florida Police Department issued Harris the uniform traffic citation, and court documents as well as a UPD incident report show that he has never had a license. Harris is scheduled for an arraignment on Jan. 15 at 1:30 p.m.
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.
The season of head coaching searches has given way to the transitional season around the Florida football program.
Jim McElwain, the new Florida Gator head football coach said in his opening press conference that you have to “recruit daily or die now”. Less than two weeks after he was named head coach, he and his staff has landed their first verbal commitment to the 2015 recruiting class.
New coach Jim McElwain has made his first hire. Mississippi State defensive coordinator Geoff Collins has been picked for the same position at Florida, the school announced Wednesday and he will replace current defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin following Florida’s final game of the season in the Birmingham Bowl Jan. 3.
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.
Coming off its third straight loss, the Florida Gators women’s basketball team found a way to get back into the win column, defeating Stetson 59-54 in the O’Connell Center on Sunday.
While Florida’s season ended on Saturday night in Ames, Iowa against No. 1 seed Stanford, it wasn’t all a loss.
Three down, three to go.
Will Muschamp’s next stop in his coaching career will be right where it started.
Despite some early foul trouble, Florida (5-4) defeated Texas Southern (1-7) 75-50 at the O’Connell Center on Friday night.
A group of more than 75 people of all races comprised mostly of students stood shoulder to shoulder in non-violent protest outside of multiple entrances of the Stephen C. O’Connell Center shortly before Friday night’s Florida basketball game.
With leading scorer Cassie Peoples sitting out the first half due to a violation of team rules, the Florida women’s basketball team needed the support of its bench players to pick up the slack in the redshirt junior’s absence.
Saying goodbye is always hard.
I stand in the company of greatness. And it smells.
With seven dunks from four players, Florida played true to its identity against Yale.
There aren’t many girls taller than 6-foot.
President Bernie Machen is leaving behind an 11-year legacy that has expanded the university and set UF on the path to preeminence.
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