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Former Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan was named a finalist for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025. Professional Career After his time with the Gators, Donovan moved to the NBA to coach the Oklahoma City Thunder from 2015-2020. He signed a five-year contract, worth nearly $30 million …

They have a chance. To make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament? Sure. To win it all? Why not? But this Gator basketball team – most importantly – has a chance to slip into my personal top five Florida hoops teams of all time. The High Five looks at …

Billy Donovan, former two-time national champion head coach for the Gators and current head coach of the Chicago Bulls, was asked Tuesday about his name being thrown around for the Kentucky head coaching job. While Donovan didn’t completely shut it down, he implied heavily against it. https://twitter.com/MichaelEppsTV/status/1777846387851325924 Coaching History & …

A week ago today I received a text from a good buddy who was a classmate of mine. “This one stings,” was how the text ended. Yeah, that 102-100 loss to Colorado in the NCAA Tournament did sting a lot and was not easy to get over. It felt like …

After two seasons coaching ACC-bound Southern Methodist University’s men’s basketball team, Rob Lanier was fired Thursday. Lanier was an assistant coach for the Gators back in 2011. Lanier Leading the Mustangs This season, the SMU Mustangs lost the first round of the National Invitation Tournament on Wednesday to Indiana State …

Former Florida Gators men’s basketball assistant coach Donnie Jones made history with Stetson’s program last week by leading the Hatters to their first NCAA Tournament. https://twitter.com/marchmadnessmbb/status/1766924201741434950?s=42   Jones was an assistant coach from 1996-2006 and the Associate Head Coach during the 2006-07 season for the Gators under Billy Donovan. Jones …

The other day on the radio, we were talking about losses that stay with you for a few days and some that stay with you forever. It was in reference to Florida’s tough overtime loss to Alabama on Wednesday night. But because I felt like the Gators were playing with …

Todd Golden may be causing you some heartburn, but even the most cynical of Gator fans (what, Gator fans cynical?) will begrudgingly give him credit for where the Gators are this season. At 17-7 and 7-4 in the SEC, Golden’s second Florida team has fallen somewhere in the upper half …

Recently, Gator legend Billy Donovan addressed coaches from all around the USA at the 2023 Larry Shyatt Clinic. Donovan made some particularly interesting comments about the state of the NBA that really show how the game of basketball has changed over the years. The Question Today, in the modern state …

As I walked into Madison Square Garden as a 15-year-old, my mind was racing with the fact that I would get to see the Florida Gators for the first time and a March Madness game for the first time. I’d grown up a Gators fan, despite living in New York, …