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:
UF coach Mike White walked into Tuesday’s media day press conference with the same cool, crisp persona that he usually sports.
Florida's men’s basketball team spoke to the media Tuesday, and alligatorSports came away with some interesting tidbits before the Gators’ first fall practice of the year Friday.
The college basketball season doesn’t tip off until early November, but that won’t stop the national media from making those wildly bold predictions merely based off what a team looks like on paper.
It’s bigger than basketball.
The Gators men’s basketball team already had a top-10 class to look forward to this fall. On Friday, it made yet another huge addition.
The Florida men’s basketball team’s final scholarship spot has now been filled.
The New Orleans Pelicans just pulled off a robbery.
There are 146 days until UF men's basketball takes the court against North Florida to open the 2019 season. When it does, it’ll have six new faces.
Kevin Durant made the right decision to play in Game 5
The University of Florida basketball program has developed multiple NBA players whose seasons are now over as the NBA Finals approach. Here’s a recap of what some former Gators did this year:
Fresh off his visit to Gainesville this past weekend, Louisiana Tech forward Anthony Duruji is joining the Florida Gators men’s basketball team.
With the NBA playoffs less than two weeks away, let’s take a look at some former Florida Gators who made headlines during the 2018-19 season.
Chris Cantrell’s love for playing began with innocent card games with his sister, Catelyn.
Two UF men’s basketball players’ names are in the NCAA transfer portal.
What would you do when two of your top-three scorers and your starting center graduate, and there are no clear replacements for them?
Solutions by The State News
