After winning its home opener versus UNF last friday, the Florida men’s basketball team will travel to Madison, Wisconsin to face the 20th ranked Badgers Tuesday night at 9 pm. UF leads the all-time series against UW 2-1 including a 74-56 victory in Gainesville last year. Despite getting a win against UNF, Gators …
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Gator Basketball Adds Another Donovan To Team
Today is Media Day for both the Gator men’s and women’s basketball team and the Gator men’s team will have another Donovan on its roster. Billy Donovan will join the team coached by his father, Billy Donovan, as a walk-on. The younger Donovan had been playing at Catholic University, a …
Read More »Donovan Leads Under 18 Team To Gold Medal; Sports News And Notes
University of Florida men’s basketball coach Billy Donovan has led the United States 18 and under team to a gold medal after beating host Brazil 81-56 yesterday. The U.S. team won all five of its games to win the FIBA Americas 18 And Under world championship. In other sports news… …
Read More »Billy D Adds Team USA To His List Of Duties
The University of Florida and USA Basketball announced today that men’s basketball head coach Billy Donovan will lead Team USA at the 2012 FIBA Americas Under-18 Championships. Team USA is the reigning champion from the 2010 tournament, beating Brazil 81-78 in the championship game on a last second three pointer by Baylor swingman Quincy Miller. In …
Read More »Thornqvist Ends 23-year Gator Tenure
”After 23 years it’s just time I think,” Florida women’s tennis coach Roland Thornqvist told WRUF’s Steve Russell after announcing earlier Monday his retirement with four national championships and 11 SEC regular season titles at the helm. ”Like (former UF basketball coach) Billy Donovan said, ‘you know when it’s time’ and …
Read More »SMU Head Men’s Basketball Coach Rob Lanier Fired
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 …
Read More »Shaka Smart, Former Gators Assistant, Has Marquette in Sweet 16
Shaka Smart, head coach of the Marquette Golden Eagles, lead his team to the Sweet 16 after defeating the Colorado Buffaloes Sunday 81-77. Marquette advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2013, and Smart returns to the Sweet 16 for the first time as a head coach …
Read More »Former Florida Assistant Coach Leads Stetson To Its First March Madness
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 …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s High Five: How These Gator Basketball Coaches Fared In Season 2
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 …
Read More »Florida Men’s Basketball Team Beats Arkansas For First SEC Win
Coming off of a disappointing loss to Ole Miss on Wednesday, the Florida Gators must have turned on some Big Sean because of the way they were able to Bounce Back. https://twitter.com/GatorsMBK/status/1746307886610092503 In front of a sold-out O’Connell Center crowd of 10,445 on Saturday, the Florida men’s basketball team defeated …
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