The Florida men’s basketball team (15-16) will take on the Alabama Crimson Tide (18-13) today in the first game of the second day at the SEC Tournament. Florida is the tournament’s number eight seed, with Alabama the nine seed. The match up will be each team’s first in the 2015 conference tourney. The Gators …
Read More »Gators Men’s Hoops Flip Script, Take Down Commodores Late
Snake-bitten. Almost there. Close but no cigar. Team bad luck. Those phrases have defined the 2014-15 Florida Gator men’s basketball team, who have gone 2-6 in games decided by two points or less and lost their last two games by a single point each. But Wednesday night was a different story, as the …
Read More »Gators Men’s Hoops Look to Snap Losing Skid Against Vandy
The Florida Gators will take on the Vanderbilt Commodores in a match up of teams trending in opposite directions at the O’Connell Center tonight. The Gators (12-13) head into tonight’s contest having lost four straight games, and are winless in February. Florida’s losing streak started with a loss against the …
Read More »Gator Men’s Hoops Lose Another Close One at Ole Miss
It was a different opponent but the same story for the Florida Gator men’s basketball team as they lost a heart breaker to the Ole Miss Rebels Saturday night. Rebels guard Jarvis Summers made two free throws with 3.5 seconds left to lift Ole Miss (12-7) to a 72-71 victory, and give Florida its third …
Read More »Gators Men’s Basketball Dropped by LSU
LSU Postgame Recap The Florida Gators men’s basketball team lost their first SEC home game since 2012 Tuesday night when they were defeated by the LSU Tigers 79-61. The loss was Florida’s second in a row in conference play, as their record fell to 10-8 on the season and 3-2 in the …
Read More »Gators Men’s Basketball Loses Heartbreaker at FSU
The Florida Gator men’s basketball team lost at the buzzer in Tallahassee when junior forward Jacob Kurtz tipped an errant last shot by the Seminoles’ Devon Bookert into the basket with .4 seconds remaining, giving Florida State a 65-63 victory on Tuesday night. The Gator offense was inconsistent throughout the …
Read More »Gators Men’s Basketball Throttles Jacksonville
The Florida Gator men’s basketball team moved to 6-4 on the season by dominating the Jacksonville Dolphins (2-9) 79-34 Sunday afternoon at the O’Connell Center. The Gators led by just 10 points at halftime, but outscored JU 45-10 in the second period to pull away in dominating fashion. Forward Dorian Finney-Smith …
Read More »Gator Men’s Hoops Collapses in Second Half, Lose at Kansas
The Florida men’s basketball team (3-4) was outscored by 21 points in the second half on its way to being defeated by the Kansas Jayhawks (6-1) 71-65 at Allen Fieldhouse on Friday night. Florida led by 15 points after a sharp shooting first half, and by as many as 18 points in the …
Read More »Gator Men’s Hoops Struggles Offensively, Dropped by Tar Heels 75-64
The 18th ranked Florida men’s basketball team lost for the third time in five games, this time to number five North Carolina 75-64 Friday night in a tournament in the Bahamas. The loss drops Florida to 3-3 on the season, and it leaves the Battle 4 Atlantis Tournament finishing sixth out of eight teams.. The Gator …
Read More »Gators Get By Warhawks in OT
For the second time this week, the Florida Gator men’s basketball team let a late lead slip away at home. But this time they were able to fight back and pull out a 61-56 overtime victory over the Louisiana Monroe Warhawks to move to 2-1 on the season. Florida led by eight points …
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