On Saturday afternoon, 24 of Florida’s swimmers and divers will jump into the O’Dome Natatorium water in their final dual meet as Gators when the Auburn Tigers come to town.
The Gators men’s tennis team is poised to return to the ITA National Team Indoor Championship in Madison, Wisconsin, for the fourth-straight year.
This has been a meet over a year in the making.
Having an identity as a team in the game of basketball is everything.
With nearly two weeks until the start of its season, Florida’s lacrosse team was named the favorite to win the American Athletic Conference, earning five of the six first-place votes in the 2020 Preseason Coaches’ Poll.
NBA Twitter is capable of swaying the lasting perception of players’ legacies decades from now.
He started the first three games of the 2019 season for Florida, leading the team to a 2-0 record before he dislocated his ankle with a fracture in the third quarter against Kentucky. He missed the remainder of the season, and backup quarterback Kyle Trask took over the starting job and led the team to an 11-win season.
Florida found success in South Carolina for the second week in a row. Competing in the Gamecock Opener, it closed the meet with Cameron Miller and the women’s 4x400-relay team posting NCAA-leading times.
Different day, same story for Florida’s women’s basketball team against No. 12 Texas A&M.
The weather outside was cold and icy.
Florida is back in South Carolina this weekend for the second week in a row.
The Southeastern Conference announced the 2020 Preseason Coaches’ Poll, which surveys all 13 head coaches in the league, on Wednesday. Of those 13 teams, the defending SEC Tournament-champion Gators were ranked fifth.
Wednesday’s match was a huge opportunity for the Gators men’s tennis team.
Over the course of the next two weeks, the Florida gymnastics team will face two Tigers.
After the LSU Tigers defeated Clemson in the College Football Playoff National Championship game, video circulated of what appeared to be a tipsy Odell Beckham Jr. distributing fistfulls of cash to wide receivers Jontre Kirklin and Justin Jefferson, the latter having declared for the NFL draft earlier this week.
Ranked opponents have been kryptonite for Florida’s women’s basketball team this season, with the Gators losing each of its four games against top-25 foes by an average margin of 25.3 points.
Four games. Four ranked opponents.
A battle of No. 1 vs. No. 2. A Final Four rematch. A non-conference reigning national champion coming to Gainesville in January.
Watching the national championship game made me realize a few things.
The Florida women’s tennis team’s trip to the Bahamas was not pleasant.
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