After losing leading playmaker Jaterra Bonds last season to graduation, seemingly nobody is counting on the Florida Gators women’s basketball team to contend this year.
Tonight could be history in the making for the Florida basketball program. Game 1 of UF’s 2014-15 basketball season tips off at 6 p.m. in the O’Connell Center. The game will also serve as UF’s first ever matchup against William & Mary of the Colonial Athletic Association.
Looking back at his team’s exhibition game, Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan pinpointed more than a few weaknesses.
There isn’t much you could say to criticize women’s basketball that hasn’t already been said. The players have heard it all.
Billy Donovan’s son, also named Billy Donovan, could soon follow in his father’s footsteps.
They may be the reigning Southeastern Conference Champions, but the 2014-15 Florida basketball team isn’t its predecessor.
The Gators have a tough test ahead of them.
While Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan maintains his team is not having issues with chemistry, he said on Tuesday that the loss of four starting seniors has created a void and a bit of confusion with the young and new players.
With eight underclassmen listed on Florida basketball’s current 17-man roster, the Gators will rely greatly on young talent in the wake of losing four starting seniors to the class of 2014.
For the first time in her collegiate career, Carla Batchelor feels like a little fish in a big pond.
Lexx Edwards is on the heels of his first year of actually playing with the Gators.
Chris Chiozza is just one of many new faces to the Gators’ 17-man 2014-2015 men’s basketball roster.
No. 7 Florida has exactly 24 days until its first official game against William & Mary on Nov. 14.
Although she comes from a school just 5.4 miles from University of Florida’s campus, Viktorija Dimaite actually hails from Panevezys, Lithuania, a good 5,223 miles from Gainesville.
Michael Frazier II is Florida’s lone returning starter from last season’s Final Four run. The junior shooting guard connected on 46.1 percent of his three-point attempts during the 2013-14 season and set a school record for three-point baskets in a season (118) and in a game (11 vs. South Carolina). Frazier finished the season on the All-Southeastern Conference Tournament and NCAA All-South Region Tournament teams.
Billy Donovan knows he has to rebuild.
Florida women’s basketball coach Amanda Butler found herself using the word "elevate" to describe specific elements of the team during the team’s Media Day on Thursday.
Entering her eighth year as UF’s head women’s basketball coach, Amanda Butler is quickly able to grasp where the team is on both sides of the court and where they need to make the most improvements.
Florida men’s basketball achieved greatness last season.
UF still has a bone to pick with UConn.
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