Florida 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.
More 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.
Keyontae Johnson had the look.
Florida 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.
For Florida, Thursday night’s game was supposed to produce a get back-on-track type of performance at the O’Connell Center.
For the first time since 2016, Florida women’s basketball has won its first two games of the season.
The UF men’s basketball team likely had plenty on its mind after dropping its sixth-straight game to the Florida State Seminoles on Sunday. It was unlikely that any of it was positive.
Coach 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.
One by one, the basketballs sailed through the air, launching off the fingers of UF shooters from all over the court.
To say that Florida’s women’s basketball team struggled on the road last season is an understatement.
Florida-Florida State hasn’t been much of a rivalry on the hardwood lately, and UF coach Mike White is the first to admit that.
Florida’s women’s basketball team was engaged in a back-and-forth battle with Grambling State on Tuesday night.
Silence spread throughout the O’Connell Center.
Florida’s women’s basketball team has the opportunity on Tuesday to do what it only did once last season: win a road game.
The UF men’s basketball team readily handled Lynn University last week, but that won’t show up on the official record.
Twenty minutes of basketball, 23 three-point attempts and zero points.
Forward Kerry Blackshear Jr. found the ball in his hands with less than five seconds left in the first half.
College basketball season is now just a couple weeks away, and many teams, including the Gators, are preparing for exhibition games. These contests help squads gauge where they’re at as a team and focus on areas that need to be improved before the regular season gets underway.
Florida’s men’s basketball team is just 21 days away from its first game of the season against North Florida, and it has been busy acclimating its large roster of newcomers to the program. The Gators have high expectations coming into this season, but already they’ve faced two difficulties that they’ll need to overcome to start the season strong.
The Florida women’s basketball team held its preseason media day Thursday, and coach Cam Newbauer and the players got to share their thoughts on the offseason and the season to come. They spoke a lot on improvement from last season and had a new-found confidence. Here are three areas the team addressed for the upcoming season:
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