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Arkansas guard Jaylen Barford is averaging 17.9 points per game, good for fourth in the SEC.

SPORTS | MEN'S BASKETBALL

SEC Tournament Scouting Report: Arkansas Razorbacks

By Andrew Huang | Mar. 9, 2018

The rematch is on. Sixth-seeded Arkansas (22-10, 10-8 SEC) takes on third-seeded Florida (20-11, 11-7) in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals Friday at 9. The Razorbacks earned a shot against the Gators — who defeated the Hogs 88-73 on Jan. 17 — by taking down South Carolina 69-64 Thursday night in the second round of the bracket.

Guard Chris Chiozza was named First Team All-SEC and SEC All-Defensive Team on Tuesday.

SPORTS | MEN'S BASKETBALL

Gators hoping strong defense carries them past Arkanas on Friday in SEC quarterfinals

By Jake Dreilinger | Mar. 9, 2018

Florida men’s basketball coach Mike White hears the criticism.

NEWS

"Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari

Mar. 9, 2018

With "Homo Deus," Yuval Noah Harari follows up his bestselling "Sapiens" — which looked back at the last 70,000 years of human evolution and history — with a look forward. In short, Where do we go from here?

Gordon Neale finished over par for the second day in a row at the Tavistock Collegiate Invitational with a 5-over round on Monday. UF dropped from fifth to 10th and no Gator broke even in the second round.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS GOLF

Gators recover on final day, win Southern Highlands Collegiate

By Sam Campisano | Mar. 7, 2018

Led by a spectacular performance from freshman Chris Nido, the Florida men’s golf team won the Southern Highlands Collegiate event after trailing entering the final day.

Freshman defender Sabrina Cristodero nabbed a season-high nine draw controls against Syracuse on Wednesday.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS LACROSSE

Florida lacrosse falls short against Syracuse despite late comeback

By Tyler Nettuno | Mar. 7, 2018

After a blowout victory over then-No. 3 North Carolina on Saturday, the Florida lacrosse team had momentum on its side heading into its matchup at No. 8 Syracuse on Wednesday.

Freshman Jordan Butler pitched five innings while giving up three hits and two runs Wednesday night against UCF.

SPORTS | BASEBALL

Gators’ bats go cold in loss to UCF

By Morgan McMullen | Mar. 7, 2018

On a persistently breezy 53-degree night, the Gators faithful began to file out of the ballpark in bunches. After a quick 1-2-3 seventh inning from Knights reliever Eric Hepple, roughly a third of the 3,253 in attendance had had enough of the cold weather and UF’s cold bats.

Sophomore diver Brook Madden came two spots shy of qualifying for the NCAA Championships in the 1-meter dive.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS SWIM AND DIVE

Brooke Madden shines for Gators diving at NCAA Zones

By Jacob McManamon | Mar. 6, 2018

The Gators men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams are in Knoxville, Tennessee, this week to compete in the NCAA diving zones.

Coach Kevin O'Sullivan was unsure why his pitching staff struggled Tuesday against UCF. “For whatever reason, we just weren’t able to finish innings," he said.

SPORTS | BASEBALL

Jack Leftwich’s poor outing results in No. 1 Gators’ second loss of 2018

By Justin Ahlum | Mar. 6, 2018

Riding the high horse of a seven-game winning streak, UCF trampled over the kings of college baseball’s landscape on Tuesday.

Junior Gordon Neale led the Gators on Day 2 of the Southern Highlands Collegiate with a 2 under, his second time carding a 70 in as many days.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS GOLF

Gators slip, Axelsen struggles on Day 2 of Southern Highlands Collegiate

By Sam Campisano | Mar. 6, 2018

Florida’s men’s golf team was flying high Monday after jumping out to a three-stroke lead on the first day of the Southern Highlands Collegiate event. Today, its momentum evaporated in the Nevada sun.

Sophomore John Axelsen (-7) is in a three-way stalemate for first place at the Trinity Forest Invitational. The Gators sit in eighth overall.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS GOLF

Gators in first place through Round 1 of Southern Highlands

By Sam Campisano | Mar. 6, 2018

Two weeks after a disappointing first event of the spring, the Florida men’s golf team rebounded in a big way on Monday at the Southern Highlands Collegiate in Las Vegas.

Sophomore Johannes Ingildsen won his 50th career singles match in Florida's victory over Tennessee Sunday afternoon.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS TENNIS

Gators control match, emotions in convincing win over Tennessee

By Dylan Rudolph | Mar. 4, 2018

The weather in Gainesville coming into Sunday’s Tennessee-Florida men’s tennis matchup was a brisk 70 degrees with a calm wind and blue skies. But the weather wasn’t the coolest part of the match.

Though he didn't record a hit or an RBI on Sunday, right fielder Wil Dalton was still responsible for the game-winning runs against Stony Brook.

SPORTS | BASEBALL

Gators complete sweep of Stony Brook behind Dyson’s pitching, Dalton’s heads-up baserunning

By Morgan McMullen | Mar. 4, 2018

It can be conveyed on a scorecard (FC5U, E5), but it can’t be explained or appreciated there. In the annals of Gators baseball individual plays, perhaps the strangest of them all — FC5U, E5 — now belongs to Wil Dalton.

Senior Anna Danilina won her first singles match since Feb. 9 on Saturday against Mississippi State.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS TENNIS

Women’s tennis defeats Mississippi State to cap off undefeated road stretch

By River Wells | Mar. 3, 2018

Senior Anna Danilina, the No. 9 collegiate tennis player in the world, had lost her last three singles matches. In Saturday’s meet against Mississippi State at the A.J Pitts Tennis Centre in Starkville, she was determined to bring her losing streak to a close.

Senior attacker Shayna Pirreca recorded a career-high six goals against North Carolina on Saturday.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS LACROSSE

Florida dominates No. 3 North Carolina in upset win

By Tyler Nettuno | Mar. 3, 2018

When the Gators lacrosse team hit the road to take on a Tar Heels squad that was coming off a win against the nation’s previous top-ranked team, the Maryland Terrapins, it expected a hard-fought 60 minutes.

Center fielder Nick Horvath threw out a runner at the plate Saturday against Stony Brook. He finished 1-for-2 from the plate with an RBI on a sacrifice fly.

SPORTS | BASEBALL

Defense lifts Florida baseball past Stony Brook in second shutout of season

By Morgan McMullen | Mar. 3, 2018

Nick Horvath’s arm has more range than Madonna’s singing voice.

Guard KeVaughn Allen led UF in scoring Friday night in its home opener against Charleston Southern. He had 14 points on 6-for-11 shooting.

SPORTS | MEN'S BASKETBALL

Notebook: Hudson and Allen lead Gators to win over Kentucky, Chiozza and Koulechov celebrate Senior Day

By Jake Dreilinger | Mar. 3, 2018

Kentucky guard Quade Green put up a shot while double-covered that bounced off the front of the rim and was tipped towards the baseline. UF guard Egor Koulechov ran after it, hovering out-of-bounds to save the ball, and tossed it back in play.

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and supporters march in Tallahassee for gun control after 17 were shot and killed at the school Feb. 14.

METRO | CITY COUNTY COMMISSION

Gainesville City Commission passes a resolution making a stance on gun reform

By Jessica Curbelo | Mar. 3, 2018

Laura Uribe won’t forget her high school sister’s text about the rumor of a school shooter in May.

Fourth grader Brianna Smith holds out a Dr. Seuss book to show the picture to other kids in her after-school program.

METRO

Gainesville after-school program hosts Read Across America Day event for the first time

By Jessica Curbelo | Mar. 3, 2018

Da’Kinyah Smith wore her Dr. Seuss inspired paper top hat as she intently listened to classmate Brianna Smith read the book “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.”

METRO | CRIMINAL JUSTICE

GPD investigating sexual battery of UF student after she was dropped off on U.S. 441

By Robert Lewis | Mar. 3, 2018

A UF student was sexually battered early Thursday getting into a vehicle she thought was an Uber in Midtown, according to a UF public safety alert.

UF alumnus Alfonso Tejada, right, pitches his product Palmini on Shark Tank.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Here's how much a UF alumnus got in his 'Shark Tank' deal

By Sabrina Conza | Mar. 3, 2018

A UF alumnus accepted a $300,000 deal on “Shark Tank” from investors Mark Cuban and Lori Greiner.

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