Florida guard Jalen Hudson drove to the basket and watched the ball fall through.
Fans of the Florida women’s basketball team could dream for the first three quarters on Sunday.
All Florida could do was watch as Kentucky guard Tyler Herro drained an open three-pointer from the right corner.
The Gators walked into the Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tennessee, without one of the most important elements in the game of basketball: height. The team was down its starting 6-foot-1 forward, Kristina Moore, after she injured her arm Sunday against Arkansas, and her absence was evident from the first whistle to the last.
There was a moment where it was up to redshirt freshman forward Isaiah Stokes to guard the paint.
KeVaughn Allen had very little time.
Freshman forward Keyontae Johnson did his best Superman impression on superhero night at the O’Connell Center. He took flight and snagged a lob thrown from under the basket by fellow freshman Andrew Nembhard and emphatically slammed it down.
The Gators tried to get one last shot off before the buzzer sounded. They had an excellent opening quarter on Sunday against Arkansas and were up by 12.
The Florida men’s basketball team can best be compared to a seesaw this season, with its offense on one side and its defense on the other.
It was the pace.
The game could have been a blowout.
Losing a game is one thing. Losing in the exact same way, over and over again, has to be torturous for Florida men’s basketball coach Mike White.
A second-half barrage saved the Gators from a devastating home loss to Texas A&M on Tuesday night. No UF player had scored 20 points in a game this season heading into the matchup with the Aggies, but KeVaughn Allen and Noah Locke scored 31 and 27, respectively.
It took 17 games for a Florida men’s basketball player to eclipse 20 points in a contest.
If you told Florida women’s basketball coach Cam Newbauer that the Gators out-rebounded No. 7 Mississippi State and held its leading scorer, Teaira McCowan, to just two points, he probably wouldn’t have expected his team to get blown out.
It rained all night long.
Ole Miss guard Mimi Reid drilled a three on the first possession of Sunday’s game in Oxford, Mississippi.
The last five games played out about the same way for the Florida men’s basketball team.
It has been a frustrating season for the Florida women’s basketball team, but one signal that greener pastures could be on the horizon can be found at the bottom of the stat sheet after every game: bench points.
It has been the same story over and over again for the past two weeks.
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