In the minds of coach Amanda Butler and her players, the Southeastern Conference is its own season.
Florida may have been two players short in its Southeastern Conference opener against South Carolina on Wednesday, but it wasn’t short on production.
The bar is set unexpectedly high for Florida’s first Southeastern Conference game of the season. The Gators (7-6) will face South Carolina (9-3) in Columbia at 7 p.m.
I had thoughts, many of them about how this Florida basketball team would end up — it appears I thought wrong.
It isn’t a stretch to say this season hasn’t gone the way the Gators women’s basketball team had hoped.
The Gators had a full winter break as they tackled their final four non-conference games of the season. Florida (7-6) saw mixed results with two losses and two wins over the past three weeks.
Faced with the possibility of opening Southeastern Conference play with back-to-back losses, the Gators women’s basketball team made sure to avoid a letdown Sunday, as Florida dispatched Auburn 63-50 to claim its first SEC win of the season.
Florida’s first game of the new year was no different from the Gators’ performance in the previous year.
It appeared the Gators women’s basketball team viewed the beginning of Southeastern Conference play as a fresh start, and that the team would turn the corner and correct the problems that have plagued Florida in non-conference play.
TALLAHASSEE — Jacob Kurtz was just trying to make a play.
Two teams emerged victoriously from the Orange Bowl Classic in Sunrise, Florida on Dec. 20: the Florida Gators and the Florida State Seminoles. Now, the two will face off in their first games since as the Gators (7-4) will face in-state rival Florida State (7-5) on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Donald L. Tucker Center in Tallahassee.
For 30 minutes, it seemed possible that the Gators women’s basketball team could suffer another letdown at home against an incomparable foe.
The Florida Gators women’s basketball team lost another game the team was favored to win, on its home court, and in the team’s own 24th annual Gator Holiday Classic championship game.
A complete team effort vaulted the Florida women’s basketball team into the 24th Annual Gator Holiday Classic Championship, as the Gators handedly defeated Southern University 78-49 on Sunday afternoon in the O’Connell Center.
SUNRISE, Fla. — Billy Donovan was managing quite a few spinning plates at the Orange Bowl Classic in Sunrise, Florida, on Saturday.
Florida coach Billy Donovan will be paying closer attention to his team’s fall semester grades than usual, with the structure of UF’s lineup against Wake Forest Saturday depending on when the grades are posted.
In Florida’s (6-4) third consecutive win since falling to No. 11 Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas on Dec. 5, the Gators defeated Jacksonville (2-9) 79-34 on Sunday.
Coming off its third straight loss, the Florida Gators women’s basketball team found a way to get back into the win column, defeating Stetson 59-54 in the O’Connell Center on Sunday.
Despite some early foul trouble, Florida (5-4) defeated Texas Southern (1-7) 75-50 at the O’Connell Center on Friday night.
With leading scorer Cassie Peoples sitting out the first half due to a violation of team rules, the Florida women’s basketball team needed the support of its bench players to pick up the slack in the redshirt junior’s absence.
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