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Any time in the last 15 years that an SEC Basketball Tournament is played, there is inevitably a mention of the 2008 Tournament. That was the one when the tornado ripped through downtown Atlanta and the tourney was eventually moved to Georgia Tech. There was a documentary about it, but …

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 …

The Back Nine comes at you after a wild weekend where Gators were scattered all over the place. 10. Saturday was one of those days for the Gator Nation. Florida lost another basketball game, because it could not figure out how to play against a zone defense. The baseball team …

The Back Nine comes at you after one of those weekends that makes the Gator Nation warm and fuzzy all over.  10. But we have to start with the big national story which was the court-storming by Wake Forest students that caused an injury to Duke’s Kyle Filipowski. The answer …

The other day on the radio, we were talking about losses that stay with you for a few days and some that stay with you forever. It was in reference to Florida’s tough overtime loss to Alabama on Wednesday night. But because I felt like the Gators were playing with …

The Back Nine comes at you after a wet weekend that included another win by Florida’s suddenly en fuego basketball team.  10. You can look at these Gators as a team that is making you run out of Tums or a team that keeps winning close games. No matter how …

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 …

The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend that saw the end of one season and the beginning of another. At least that was the way I saw it. 10. The last football game of the season delivered in many ways, especially the final quarter and OT. But up …

We know Florida won’t finish unbeaten at home this year thanks to Kentucky (the Gators did get the Wildcats back). How you play at home has a lot to do with how you finish and where you play in the postseason. Certainly, with the home schedule Florida has remaining starting …

The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend with a lot of disappointing results, including weather issues at Pebble Beach. That’s the way sports goes.  10. Certainly, nobody can say they expected Florida basketball to win both road games last week. But when you win one, you get greedy. …