With the No. 27 pick of the 2024 WNBA draft, the Indiana Fever selected Leilani Correa, guard, Florida. Correa is the first Gator to get drafted since Kiki Smith was selected by Connecticut in 2022. This past season Correa was named SEC’s sixth-woman of the year, surpassing 2,000 career points …
Read More »Florida Women’s Basketball Tips Off WBIT
The Florida Gators tip off round one of the inaugural Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament today in the O’Dome against St. John’s. WBIT invite accepted 🎉 We’ll host St. John’s (NY) Thursday, March 21st at home. Tip-off is at 6pm! pic.twitter.com/XM9u7mtDh4 — Gators Women’s Basketball (@GatorsWBK) March 18, 2024 Recent Games …
Read More »Former Gator Coach Butler Fired At Clemson
Former Florida Gators women’s basketball coach Amanda Butler has been fired as Clemson coach. Coaching in Clemson After Butler’s tenure as coach at Florida, she was hired by Clemson. Her time there started out well as she was named the ACC coach of the year in 2018 after taking Clemson …
Read More »Gators Accept Bid to Inaugural WBIT
The Florida Gators women’s basketball team has accepted a bid into the inaugural Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament (WBIT). On Thursday, the No. 3 seed Gators (16-15, 5-11 SEC) will host St. John’s (17-14, 11-8 BIG EAST) at 7 p.m. at the O’Connell Center. WBIT invite accepted 🎉 We’ll host St. …
Read More »Gators Women’s Basketball Holds Off Missouri To Advance
The Florida women’s basketball team escaped out of the first round of the SEC tournament Wednesday with a 66-60 win against Missouri at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina. The Gators (15-14) reached the second round of the conference tourney for the fifth time in the last …
Read More »Florida Women’s Basketball Hosts Auburn in Final Regular-Season Game
The Gators women’s basketball team will return home Sunday to face the Auburn Tigers (18-10) in the final game of the 2023-24 regular season. Tip-off is set for noon in the O’Connell Center. Florida suffered a tough 76-73 loss in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Thursday. UF dropped to 14-13 on the season …
Read More »Gators Women’s Basketball Lose Heartbreaker At Alabama
No other way to put it, things were tough Thursday in Tuscaloosa for the Gators. Final.#GoGators | Presented by @WellsFargo pic.twitter.com/6Zk8dbTBxi — Gators Women’s Basketball (@GatorsWBK) March 1, 2024 The Florida women’s basketball team lost their penultimate game 0f the regular season to Alabama, 76-73. The Gators drop to 14-13 …
Read More »Gators Women’s Basketball Takes On Mizzou Tigers
The Florida Gators women’s basketball team hosts Missouri at the O’Connell Center at 6 p.m. today looking for their second consecutive win over the Tigers. The Gators (13-11, 4-8 SEC) are in need of a bounce back after two consecutive losses against Ole Miss and Kentucky. Missouri (13-11, 4-8) is …
Read More »Florida Women’s Basketball Falls At Kentucky
When you think it cannot get worse. It can. Back at home on Thursday. #GoGators | @WellsFargo pic.twitter.com/4FmQRicWBa — Gators Women’s Basketball (@GatorsWBK) February 18, 2024 The Florida Gators women’s basketball team took another devastating loss this season, this time to Kentucky at the Rupp Arena, 81-77, on Sunday. Prior …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: Play Around Bad Officiating
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. …
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