The Gators will take on the Houston Cougars in San Antonio at 8:50 p.m. Monday. Follow along for live updates on how Gainesville is celebrating.
Surrounded by a stadium packed 51,000 strong, the Gators gathered in Atlanta for the 2007 NCAA Championship game, prepared for a face off against Ohio State. Back in Gainesville, fans crowded into the popular bars of the day, anxious to see if the Gators could pull off their second — and consecutive — NCAA championship win, a feat no team had managed to achieve since the early ‘90s.
Florida and Houston are facing off in the men’s basketball National Championship at 8:50 p.m. in San Antonio, Texas. Both teams pulled upsets in their Final Four games Saturday night. Houston erased Duke’s nine-point lead in the last two minutes to win 70-67, while Florida outlasted Auburn 79-73.
When UF’s Final Four matchup against the Auburn Tigers ended in triumph, Gainesville roared. Students stormed the streets. Bar floors shook. Fireworks exploded. The Gators had just advanced to their first National Championship since 2007.
In a rematch of SEC titans, Walter Clayton Jr. toppled top-seeded Auburn with a career-defining 34-point performance in San Antonio. With the win, Florida advances to its first national championship since 2007.
In a rematch of SEC titans, Walter Clayton Jr. toppled top-seeded Auburn with a 34-point, career-defining performance in San Antonio. With the win, Florida advances to its first national championship since 2007.
The Gators returned to the Final Four for the first time since 2014 after a nail-biting Elite Eight performance against Texas Tech. If Florida advances Saturday evening, it will be the first National Championship the team has made since 2007.
Final Four Saturday night when Florida will take on Auburn in the Final Four tonight at 6:09 p.m. EST. So will thousands of other Gators. Between mass carpools and emotional ties, here’s how they got there and what it means.
Florida basketball is numbers driven, and in the final moments of last Saturday’s 10-point comeback in the Elite Eight, it never had been more so.
Florida basketball is back in the Final Four against a familiar opponent in Auburn. Here’s a preview of what’s to come between the Gators and Tigers with a national championship berth on the line.
After 11 years, Florida basketball is back in the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament. Here’s a look at how this year’s dominance stacks up against other all-time great teams in program history.
Thomas Haugh watched Tim Tebow as a child and a dream formed. Now, having pushed Florida to the Final Four, he’s living out a lifelong goal.
At the beginning of March, the season looked all but over for the Florida women’s basketball team. It had a 14-15 record and sat at 5-10 in SEC play. But after the Gators’ senior night loss on Feb. 27 to Oklahoma, head coach Kelly Rae Finley remained optimistic, saying, “It’s not the end of our season by any stretch of the imagination.”
As Florida women’s basketball’s only sophomore, Laila Reynolds plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of the program, inspiring and leading the next batch of players.
In Florida’s most notable game of the last decade, Walter Clayton Jr. put together the strongest performance of his career, including a dagger three in the final seconds, to send the Gators to the Final Four.
Walter Clayton Jr. got three college basketball offers out of high school and commanded a sub-65 transfer ranking two years later. As of Tuesday, he is a finalist for the highest single-player award in college basketball.
As the Sweet 16 matchup between No. 10 seed Arkansas and No. 3 seed Texas Tech came down to its deciding moments, college basketball fans settled into their sofas and bar stools for what was seemingly about to become a regional final between two SEC behemoths.
Florida’s season has been filled with firsts. The Gators earned their first one seed in over a decade. They ran out their first AP All-American in program history. They won the SEC for the first time since 2014. Now, Florida advances to the Elite Eight for the first time since 2017.
The Florida Gators women’s basketball team narrowly escaped with a win in the WBIT quarterfinals to punch its ticket to Indianapolis for the tournament’s penultimate round.
Having traveled across the country to San Francisco, Todd Golden is in familiar territory. His team isn’t, though. Here are three storylines entering Florida’s first Sweet Sixteen game in nearly a decade.
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