The Florida men’s basketball team edges Texas A&M 66-62 in its final regular season home game of the year on Tuesday night. It’s a win, but it wasn’t always pretty. With 1:58 to play, the Gators held a comfortable 58-45 lead. Then the Aggies started playing “Hack-A-Gator,” continually fouling Florida on the in-bounds …
Read More »Gator Men’s Hoops Hosts Texas A&M Tonight
The Florida men’s basketball team plays its final regular season home game tonight when it hosts Texas A&M. Florida (14-15, 7-9 SEC) desperately needs to win this game to have any realistic shot at making a postseason tournament. The Gators close the regular season at unbeaten Kentucky. Texas A&M (20-8, …
Read More »Gators Top Tennessee as Donovan Reaches 500 Win Milestone
Minutes after the Gators cruised to a 66-49 win over Tennessee, the majority of the O’Connell Center crowd remained standing at their seats. With a packed student section in front of him and his basketball team behind him, all eyes were on Florida head coach Billy Donovan as he recapped the …
Read More »UF Men’s Hoops Fade Down The Stretch; Fall To Missouri 64-52
Unfortunately for Gator fans, Florida men’s basketball coach Billy Donovan will have to wait at least three more days to claim his 500th win. Florida lost its second straight game on Tuesday night, falling to the Missouri Tigers by a final score of 64-52. It was a tale of two halves for …
Read More »UF Men’s Hoops Seek Second Win In February Tuesday Night At Missouri
The Florida Gator men’s basketball team will be looking to right the ship on Tuesday night when they travel to Columbia to meet the Missouri Tigers. With just four games left in the regular season the Gators will be looking to put together any sort of momentum as the SEC …
Read More »Jarrell Martin’s Career-High 28 Points Powers LSU Past Florida In Men’s Hoops
With a chance to reach the 500th win plateau in his coaching career, Billy Donovan will have to wait a little longer. Florida had no answer for LSU forward Jarrell Martin, who scored a career-high 28 points and added 13 rebounds as the Gators fell in Baton Rouge 70-63 on …
Read More »Florida Women’s Hoops Face Vanderbilt Thursday Night at Home
Florida head coach Amanda Butler and her women’s basketball team (12-13, 4-8 SEC) are headed into their second to last home game of the season Thursday night against Vanderbilt (13-12, 4-8 SEC). The Gators defeated the Commodores in Nashville on February 1st, 67-58. “Vanderbilt is real effective at running – they do …
Read More »Gators Men’s Hoops Flip Script, Take Down Commodores Late
Snake-bitten. Almost there. Close but no cigar. Team bad luck. Those phrases have defined the 2014-15 Florida Gator men’s basketball team, who have gone 2-6 in games decided by two points or less and lost their last two games by a single point each. But Wednesday night was a different story, as the …
Read More »Gators Men’s Hoops Look to Snap Losing Skid Against Vandy
The Florida Gators will take on the Vanderbilt Commodores in a match up of teams trending in opposite directions at the O’Connell Center tonight. The Gators (12-13) head into tonight’s contest having lost four straight games, and are winless in February. Florida’s losing streak started with a loss against the …
Read More »UF Men’s Hoops Drop Fourth Straight; Fall To TAMU 63-62
The Florida men’s basketball team has seen this movie before. Florida (12-13, 5-7 SEC) extends its SEC losing streak to four games after losing another heart breaker, a 63-62 loss Saturday at Texas A&M. It is Florida’s fourth one point loss on the season. Once again the Gators got off …
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