TALLAHASSEE — The atmosphere on Saturday night in the bowels of Doak Campbell Stadium was bittersweet. Florida’s fate was in another team’s hands, but coach Will Muschamp — soaked and dripping with Gatorade — still found plenty to be happy about.
Through two games in the South Point Thanksgiving Shootout, Carlie Needles and Florida feasted on the competition.
After sustaining two concussions during the preseason, Casey Prather tasted blood less than a minute into his season debut.
Jennifer George had already racked up four points, two rebounds and an assist only 4:28 into the game. However, the senior also accounted for two of Florida’s four early fouls.
The Gators wrapped up their regular season with a three-set sweep (25-21, 25-22, 25-19) on the road against Georgia (14-16, 8-12 Southeastern Conference).
After making a school-record nine threes four days earlier, redshirt freshman Carlie Needles again came through behind the arc for the Gators on Friday.
Known as one of the Gators’ most skilled defenders, Scottie Wilbekin proved on Friday that he could also be a scoring threat.
With the Gators already crowned the champions of the Southeastern Conference, Chloe Mann didn’t need a career performance Wednesday night.
Gators quarterback Jeff Driskel will start on Saturday at Florida State, coach Will Muschamp said on Wednesday during his weekly teleconference.
Florida lost its leading scorer Tuesday night.
The demise of Hostess would have counted Twinkies as one of the victims of a tough economy, but it would have been good riddance, right? Sugar is for the weak.
Coach Will Muschamp isn’t worried about style points.
Florida entered the season without a clear-cut starter at quarterback. Now the same questions return for the Gators as they head to Tallahassee for a critical road matchup on Saturday in their final regular season game of 2012.
In his first game back from a three-game suspension, Scottie Wilbekin was an integral part of a key Gators run.
Facing an opponent from the Sunshine State for the second consecutive game, redshirt freshman Carlie Needles made it rain Monday night.
A day after Florida dropped its Sweet 16 match against Notre Dame, coach Becky Burleigh still could not find a silver lining.
The Gators' 20th Southeastern Conference championship is one for the history books.
TAMPA — With the score tied at 22 late in the first half, Scottie Wilbekin drove the ball to the net, hoping to put the Gators ahead in his first game of the season. Although Wilbekin missed the shot, Will Yeguete was right behind him to grab the rebound and score the put back.
Florida fans should be terrified of the looming matchup against Florida State, but not because of anything that happened on Saturday.
Mike Gillislee finally got over the hump.
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