On Sunday, the Gators women’s basketball team (7-1) hits the road to take on the Dayton Flyers (0-7). Tip off is set for 1 p.m. The Gators and Flyers have faced each other three times in program history, and Florida has won all three matchups. The teams faced off last …
Read More »Former Gator Hoops Assistant Anthony Grant Now Leads Dayton Basketball
Former Gator basketball assistant Anthony Grant joined the Sportscene with Steve Russell Show to discuss his remarkable season as head coach of the Dayton men’s basketball team. Grant’s background Grant was an assistant coach at Florida under Billy Donovan from 1996-2006. Grant went on to become head coach at Virginia …
Read More »Florida Volleyball Comes Back to Defeat Dayton
The No. 10 Florida Gators volleyball team overcame a two-set deficit to defeat Dayton in their final game of the Cardinal Classic. After dropping the first set 21-25 and the second set 17-25, the Gators rallied in the final three sets to win the match 3-2. A competitive, offensive battle …
Read More »Gators Ground Flyers 62-52, Advance to the Final Four
“Smash the Slipper” has been a phrase the University of Florida has come to use and master over the course of their basketball program’s success. In 2006, the Gators defeated 11 seed George Mason in the Final Four on their way to winning a National Championship. In 2013, the Gators …
Read More »Florida One Win Away From Final Four; Faces Dayton on Saturday
The Florida men’s basketball team, SEC Champions, No. 1 overall seed and winners of 29 straight games have reached the point where its past three seasons have come to an end, the Elite Eight. The Gators are now one win away from claiming the South region as theirs and advancing to …
Read More »Florida Women’s Hoops Set to Kick Off NCAA Action Against Dayton
The Florida women’s basketball team (19-12, 8-8 SEC) is preparing to take on the Dayton Flyers (23-7, 14-2 A-10) in the opening round of the 2014 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship. The 11-seed Gators will face off against the sixth-ranked Flyers, who lost to Fordham in the Atlantic-10 conference tournament …
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