There is good and possible bad news for Florida basketball fans this week. The Gators gained a commitment from 2025 four-star guard Alex Lloyd and signed Washington State transfer Rueben Chinyelu. And Will Richard declared for the NBA draft. A Future In NBA The Gators may lose a veteran presence …
Read More »Gators Basketball Adds Chattanooga Transfer, Lose Szymczyk
The Florida men’s basketball team was active in the transfer portal over the weekend. The Gators added former Chattanooga forward Sam Alexis, but lost rising junior forward Aleks Szymcyzk. NEWS: Chattanooga transfer forward Sam Alexis is returning to his home state and has committed to Florida, he tells @On3sports. The …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: Sure, ‘I had Yale beating Auburn’ In My Bracket
The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend that pretty much had every emotion possible. 10. Let’s start with what happened Friday evening and the depression that fell over Gainesville with the end of another basketball season. There was anger, there was pain, there was the stinging realization that …
Read More »NCAA Tournament: Gators Battle With Buffs, Eliminated 102-100
A single shot wiped away a comeback effort and career performance for Walter Clayton Jr. and the Florida Gators in March Madness. A KJ Simpson jumper with less than two seconds remaining Friday kept the 10 seed Colorado Buffaloes dancing and sent seven seed Florida home in the NCAA Tournament …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: Handlogten’s injury got Tournament committee’s attention
The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend that included a little bit of everything, kind of like a Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixins, but the bean casserole made you ill. 10. As soon as I saw Micah Handlogten on the floor of the Bridgestone Arena and it …
Read More »Florida Men’s Basketball Falls In SEC Championship Game, Loses Handlogten To Injury
This one hurts. No need to sugar coat it. Final. Auburn Wins, 86-67. pic.twitter.com/r92eynO2y3 — ESPN 98.1 / 850 WRUF (@ESPNGainesville) March 17, 2024 The Florida Gators men’s basketball team lost in the SEC Tournament championship game to No. 12 Auburn, 86-67, Sunday at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. The …
Read More »Florida Men’s Basketball Advances To SEC Tournament Semifinals
After passing Georgia in Round 2 of the SEC Tournament, the Gators stood on business once again against the Crimson Tide on Friday. IT'S GREAT TO BE A FLORIDA GATOR. #GoGators | presented by @WellsFargo pic.twitter.com/If8g54HOMM — Florida Gators Men’s Basketball (@GatorsMBK) March 16, 2024 The Florida men’s basketball team …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: Loss At Vanderbilt May Have Silver Lining
The Back Nine comes at you after another weekend filled with the good, the bad and the awful. 10. The Gator men’s basketball loss Saturday might be the best thing that could have happened to Florida. This team got better as the season went along and there was a lot …
Read More »Florida Closes Regular-Season Home Schedule Vs. No. 16 Alabama
The Florida Gators men’s basketball team hosts the No. 16 Alabama Crimson Tide at the sold-out O’Connell Center at 7 p.m. today for its final home game of the season. The Gators (20-9, 10-6 SEC) are 13-1 at home this season and have won seven straight home games since the …
Read More »Assistant Coach John Andrzejek’s Impact on the Men’s Basketball Team
Florida’s assistant men’s basketball coach John Andrzejek has made an impact in his first year with the team. After a four-year stint as an assistant coach with Washington State, he joined the program in August. Previous Experience This is not the first time Andrzejek and head coach Todd Golden have …
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