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Mississippi State routs Florida in SEC opener
By Graham Marsh | Jan. 2, 2020Florida guard Lavender Briggs had the look.
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Florida squeaks past Davidson for ninth win of the season
By Bryan Matamoros | Dec. 29, 2019The charity stripe has not been kind to the Florida women’s basketball team throughout the first half of the regular season.
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Gators fall to Wake Forest in West Palm Beach Invitational
By Graham Marsh | Dec. 21, 2019When Florida’s women’s basketball team faced Wake Forest in the second round of the West Palm Beach Invitational, its top-four scorers: guards Lavender Briggs, Kiara Smith and Kristina Moore as well as forward Zada Williams got plenty of buckets. And they scored at an efficient pace -- all four combined to shoot 57 percent from the field.
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Florida holds on to beat Xavier in West Palm Beach Invitational
By Bryan Matamoros | Dec. 20, 2019Florida’s women’s basketball team secured just eight wins in the 2018-19 campaign, with its final one coming in the 30th game of the season.
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Florida gets back to its winning ways, defeat Mercer at home
By Bryan Matamoros | Dec. 17, 2019Florida’s women’s basketball team had a much-needed rest after splitting a two-game road trip.
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Gators stymie Panthers in fourth quarter for sixth win of the season
By Bryan Matamoros | Dec. 5, 2019Things were looking grim for Florida’s women’s basketball team heading into the fourth quarter on Thursday night.
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UF routs Florida A&M, improves to 5-2 on year
By Graham Marsh | Dec. 1, 2019Florida guard Ariel Johnson was in transition. Florida A&M’s defense wasn’t all the way back down the court yet. But Florida forward Zada Williams was.
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Florida falls short, loses to Florida State
By Graham Marsh | Nov. 26, 2019Down 12-4, Florida point guard Kiara Smith flew past traffic down the right side of the court. Just to the right of the paint, she pulled up over a Florida State defender with her left hand.
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Florida gets ready for second ranked opponent in FSU
By Bryan Matamoros | Nov. 25, 2019Florida’s women’s basketball team was undefeated heading into Friday’s battle against No. 18 Indiana. Up to that point, the Gators had defeated four unranked opponents by an average margin of victory of 18.5 points per game.
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Gators suffer first loss of the season to 18th-ranked Indiana
By Bryan Matamoros | Nov. 22, 2019Florida’s women’s basketball team has relied heavily on its backcourt tandem of point guard Kiara Smith and shooting guard Lavender Briggs.
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Gators get first ranked opponent in Indiana
By Graham Marsh | Nov. 21, 2019Seven games, zero losses.
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Balanced offense and feisty defense have Gators undefeated
By Bryan Matamoros | Nov. 19, 2019Florida guard Kiara Smith had a forgettable start to Monday’s game against Presbyterian despite playing every second of the opening half.
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Gators down Presbyterian, win fourth straight
By Graham Marsh | Nov. 18, 2019Florida forward Zada Williams caught the ball in the paint. She took one dribble to her right and then went up for a layup as she got pushed in mid-air to draw a foul.
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Gators off to 3-0 start for first time in 3 years
By Graham Marsh | Nov. 17, 2019More than 1,000 elementary school kids come to the O’Connell Center once a year to watch Florida Women’s basketball on field trip day. And this year, they’ll watch an undefeated Gators team for the first time since the 2016-17 season, when Florida began 4-0.
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Gators rout Samford, improve to 3-0
By Graham Marsh | Nov. 16, 2019Florida guard Ariel Johnson baited Samford’s Charity Brown. The Bulldogs point guard thought she had an easy chest pass to fellow guard Sarah Myers. But she was wrong.
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UF boasts unbeaten start
By Graham Marsh | Nov. 13, 2019For the first time since 2016, Florida women’s basketball has won its first two games of the season.
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Florida takes care of Longwood in home opener
By Bryan Matamoros | Nov. 10, 2019Coach 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.
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Freshmen were bright spot in win over Grambling State
By Bryan Matamoros | Nov. 8, 2019To say that Florida’s women’s basketball team struggled on the road last season is an understatement.
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Florida takes down Grambling State in season opener
By Bryan Matamoros | Nov. 6, 2019Florida’s women’s basketball team was engaged in a back-and-forth battle with Grambling State on Tuesday night.
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UF faces off against Grambling State
By Graham Marsh | Nov. 3, 2019Florida’s women’s basketball team has the opportunity on Tuesday to do what it only did once last season: win a road game.
