College Basketball

With a chance to reach the 500th win plateau in his coaching career, Billy Donovan will have to wait a little longer. Florida had no answer for LSU forward Jarrell Martin, who scored a career-high 28 points and added 13 rebounds as the Gators fell in Baton Rouge 70-63 on …

Florida head coach Amanda Butler and her women’s basketball team (12-13, 4-8 SEC) are headed into their second to last home game of the season Thursday night against Vanderbilt (13-12, 4-8 SEC). The Gators defeated the Commodores in Nashville on February 1st, 67-58. “Vanderbilt is real effective at running – they do …

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 …

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 …

The Florida men’s basketball team has seen this movie before. Florida (12-13, 5-7 SEC) extends its SEC losing streak to four games after losing another heart breaker, a 63-62 loss Saturday at Texas A&M.  It is Florida’s fourth one point loss on the season. Once again the Gators got off …

The Florida Gator men’s basketball team will look to end their three game losing streak on Saturday night as they travel to College Station to meet the Texas A&M Aggies. This will be the first match up between the two teams this season and just the fifth overall, with the …

Ole Miss guard Stefan Moody joined Miami’s Angel Rodriguez and Georgetown’s D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera on a special list Thursday night. All three players have drained game-winning jumpers to beat the Florida Gators this season. Moody drained a long-distance three-pointer over Chris Chiozza with 2.7 seconds remaining to beat Florida 62-61. The shot dropped …

Despite a loss to Kentucky last Saturday, Florida men’s basketball coach Billy Donovan saw his team dig deep and fight. He said “it was the first time I’ve felt in 23 games we played to win.” Florida (12-11, 5-5) played inspired basketball against the number one ranked team in the country but …

Despite quite possibly their best performance of the season, the Florida Gator men’s basketball team fell to the top ranked Kentucky Wildcats by a final score of 68-61 Saturday night in Gainesville. In front of a sellout crowd inside the Stephen C. O’Connell Center the Gators came out on fire …

The Florida Gator men’s basketball team will look to bounce back on Saturday when they welcome the top ranked Kentucky Wildcats.  This will be the 11th time the Gators have faced the Wildcats when they were the number one team in the country and they are 0-10 in those previous …