Donovan returns to Gainesville as UF faces Vanderbilt
By Brendan Farrell | Feb. 13, 2020All eyes will be on Billy Donovan on Saturday.
All eyes will be on Billy Donovan on Saturday.
Lavender Briggs held the ball at the top of the key and stared down Ole Miss guard Jayla Alexander with the game tied 72-72 in the final minute.
Florida coach Mike White was adamant that his team needed to make open shots after its loss to Ole Miss.
It’s beginning to become a pattern.
In college basketball, one week is a long time.
The Gators looked hungover.
The crowd in Gainesville exploded as bucket after bucket sank. Shooters couldn’t miss, and fans sporting orange and blue were in awe of the offensive showing.
It all started with some boos.
It’s not the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, but tonight’s matchup on the hardwood between Florida (13-8, 5-3 SEC) and Georgia (12-9, 2-6 SEC) still carries great importance as the SEC season reaches its median for both teams.
One half was not like the other.
The Florida men’s basketball team defeated Vanderbilt on Saturday 61-55 in Nashville, Tennessee, for its second road win of the season.
Florida’s women’s basketball team had not played on its home court for 14 days before Thursday night’s conference showdown with LSU.
The Florida men’s basketball team has reached a fork in the road.
Like most of you living in Gainesville with a Twitter account, Tuesday night was a return to every household Gator fan’s favorite pastime: the blame game.
Florida’s women’s basketball team has struggled this season against top opponents. Through six matchups against ranked teams this year, the Gators have lost them all, and that includes their last four contests. Fortunately for coach Cam Newbauer’s squad, its next game comes against unranked LSU on Thursday at the O’Connell Center. For this game, UF will continue to rely on its young players.
Even Kobe had off days.
Coach Mike White has stressed that his team has played better offensively than defensively recently, and it was on full display in his team’s second-half collapse against Mississippi State on Tuesday.
Florida’s loss to No. 1 Baylor on Saturday shouldn't have surprised most people. UF was an unranked team coming off of a loss, while the Bears came into Gainesville touting a 15-game winning streak.
Eighteen points in five minutes.