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The Back Nine comes at you after a big weekend for Gators sports and a happy Valentine’s Day … for me anyway. 10. It was pretty spectacular this weekend with so much going on. Sometimes I don’t know how the UAA handles a weekend with baseball, softball, lacrosse, basketball, women’s …

The third-ranked Florida Gators welcome South Carolina to the O’Connell Center for a conference showdown tonight. This is the second meeting between the teams this season after the Gators won a dramatic 70-69 victory in Columbia last month thanks to a game-winning layup by Will Richard with just 4.8 seconds …

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 …

Following the loaded slate of games Saturday that saw multiple ranked teams fall at home, the SEC standings are now as close as ever. Six different teams have at least seven wins in conference play and only two schools have been eliminated from at least a share of the regular-season …

After a hard-fought victory against the No. 1 Auburn Tigers, 90-81, in “The Jungle” on Saturday, the No. 3 Florida Gators look to add another SEC road win tonight against the No. 22 Mississippi State Bulldogs at Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville. https://twitter.com/GatorsMBK/status/1889059926867353665 The Gators (20-3, 7-3 SEC) have won their …

The Back Nine comes to you after another perfect Gainesville weekend that included something I didn’t think we would see.   10. On Saturday morning at the gym I was thinking about how the first item in this column should be about the Super Bowl instead of Florida basketball. That’s …

The No. 6 Florida Gators outplayed No. 1 Auburn on Saturday for a 90-81 win at Neville Arena. The Gators (20-3, 7-3 SEC) turned the game around after trailing early 15-5 by outscoring the Tigers 43-23 the rest of the half en route to snapping Auburn’s 14-game winning streak. Florida …

The Back Nine comes at you after a be-a-you-ti-ful weekend. That’s the way they would sing it on WGGG when I was a kid and it stuck with me. 10. What was not beautiful, of course, was the way Florida played in Knoxville. Todd Golden called it “atrocious”, but I …

In the SEC, more than 60% of the men’s basketball teams are nationally ranked, making the conference one the most competitive in the NCAA. Of the 16 SEC teams competing this weekend, 10 are in the top-25. Fans can tune in Saturday to eight highly anticipated matchups, including Florida’s rematch …

As a basketball program, the Florida Gators have been known to produce NBA talent. Players like Udonis Haslem, Joakim Noah and even Jason Williams didn’t just make their mark in Gainesville, but they repped their Orange and Blue at the next level. Let’s check in on the five Gators in …