Notebook: Gators still downplaying hype of No. 2 BCS ranking
By JOE MORGAN | Oct. 22, 2012When Florida was ranked second in the initial BCS standings, coach Will Muschamp had one message for his team: ignore the polls.
When Florida was ranked second in the initial BCS standings, coach Will Muschamp had one message for his team: ignore the polls.
Kayla Lewis has had trouble staying on the court during her first two seasons with the Gators.
While the Gators were practicing on the court before the NCAA Tournament, Will Yeguete was busy in the weight room.
The Gators fired the lone under-par score in the second round of the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational on Monday to move within four strokes of first-place California.
After competing in 36 NCAA singles matches, Florida junior Florent Diep won his first tournament championship on Monday.
Florida’s final tournament of the fall has proven to be the toughest.
Sharrif Floyd had one message for his teammates before Saturday’s game: FNB.
The Gators capped off the SMU Classic in Dallas with a third-place showing. Florida tallied 289 points, which trailed first place USC’s 366 and North Carolina’s 292.5.
The time to be critical is over. Let’s put to bed all of the questions about whether Florida’s success is sustainable. It just doesn’t matter.
He’s always taken a back seat to Jeff Driskel on campus.
After struggling to get on the board early in games this season, Florida’s offense took a 7-0 lead less than a minute into Saturday’s contest, and it had a defensive back to thank for it.
The Gators needed 140 minutes to score this weekend. But when senior midfielder Erika Tymrak sent a shot from the left side into the far post netting, the floodgates opened.
For the second time in five matches, Florida fell behind 2-0. And, for the second time in five matches, Chloe Mann was at the center of the Gators’ come-from-behind win.
Despite positing a 66-19 career singles record, Florida junior Alexander Cercone has hasn’t duplicated that kind of success in her junior season.
The Gators came into Friday night’s match against Alabama on a nine-game winning streak and having never lost to Alabama before.
The Taylor Unroe of the past was nowhere to be found Friday night when the No. 11 Gators took on Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Florida men’s tennis coach Bryan Shelton will be attending the USTA/ITA Southeast Regional Championships for the 14th straight season this weekend, but the 2012 tournament will be a little different from his 13 previous seasons.
The crowd at the O’Connell Center jeered and yelled, but Madison Monserez, mouth agape, couldn’t eke out a word.
Jo Dragotta’s past nine games have been what statistics majors would call an outlier.
After a weekend of debauchery in Nashville, Tenn., the alligatorSports crew comes home to Gainesville. We’re worn out from country music and Coyote Ugly saloons, but we’re just as excited to see College GameDay on campus as everyone else is for one reason: Erin Andrews.