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It ended Sunday night, not with a net being cut down, but with a locker room that was way too somber, a season that was over way too soon, and a group of Florida Gators who walked off the floor in tears.
A dominant frontcourt helped Florida earn another No. 1 seed and positioned the defending national champion Gators for a chance at a repeat.
Florida baseball’s ugly weekend finally came to an end. The Gators blew an early 4-run lead after its offense stranded 10 runners on base and its pitching staff walked nine to allow Alabama to cap off the weekend with a 14-7 win.
Rueben Chinyelu dominated down low in Florida's win over Prairie View A&M in the NCAA Tournament.
Before traveling to Tampa, the Florida men's basketball team went through two high-octane practices. The payoff was a 114-55 first-round win.
Florida had their season come to a stunning end on Sunday night as they were upset by Iowa in the Round Of 32 by a score of 73-72. Playing against an Iowa team mostly made up of mid-major transfers coached by D2 legend Ben McCollum the Gators struggled to get stops against the pick and roll conducting of Bennett Stirtz and in the final minutes when they desperately needed a score they simply couldn’t generate enough.
The top-seeded Gators are stunned 73-72 by ninth-seeded Iowa as Florida’s hope to repeat as national champions ended Sunday night in Tampa.
The Gators’ frontcourt length, intense rebounding drills and analytics-driven coaching created a second-chance scoring machine that changed Florida’s season.
Florida basketball's Thomas Haugh spoke to media following the Gators' win over Prairie View A&M in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Listen to what he had to say after the win.