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.
The Florida men’s basketball team’s game against Mississippi State was a microcosm of its season.
The game wasn’t pretty, not by a long shot.
Now might be a good time to pose the question.
Florida basketball coach Mike White had a rough week.
A hesitation move and a dash to her right allowed her to blow by the defender. She reached the rim and leaped as three Missouri Tigers jumped along with her to try and swat the ball away. She double-clutched and banked the shot off the glass and in with 2.2 seconds left to give Florida its first lead since 8:14 in the first quarter.
Mike White will be the first person to tell you if he believes his team isn’t playing good defense.
The Florida men’s basketball team has looked like two vastly different teams for most of the season.
Noah Locke dribbled up to the three-point line.
The South Carolina Gamecocks led from tip-off to the final whistle at the Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina, on Thursday night. They handed the Florida women’s basketball team its third-straight SEC loss and seventh-consecutive road defeat, winning 71-40.
Mike White was fresh off a win against Arkansas on Wednesday when he joined SEC Network broadcasters Barry Booker and Taylor Zarzour at their table.
The Gators had been here before.
It was an exciting week for former Gators in the NBA with many holding multiple headlines throughout.
Sunday’s 64-56 loss at the hands of Auburn raises an interesting question about the Florida Gators women’s basketball team: Who can the team turn to when its two leading scorers, Funda Nakkasoglu and Delicia Washington, aren’t at the top of their games?
No one was more disappointed in Florida’s recent loss to South Carolina than coach Mike White.
The Gators men’s basketball team finished its non-conference schedule in a respectable manner. UF squandered an opportunity to upset No. 8 Michigan State, but it took care of business against Mercer and Florida Gulf Coast before manhandling Butler on Dec. 29.
The Florida women’s basketball team needed big performances from its two leading-scorers in Funda Nakkasoglu and Delicia Washington to win on Sunday. They didn’t deliver.
The game looked as if it was going to overtime.
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