Urban Klavzar steps back before launching a 3-pointer (Photo courtesy of UAA) On Florida’s first possession of the game, the Ole Miss Rebels surrounded Rueben Chinyelu with four players. The result, a turnover.    The Rebels were determined to neutralize Chinyelu, the nation’s leading rebounder and the Southeastern Conference leader in double-doubles. The strategy was effective, just one teensy problem. In paying so much attention to Chinyelu, Ole Miss left open the perimeter

Coach Jenny Rowland was ecstatic on how her team held it together, winning at Georgia: “What a fun intense environment it’s always a battle when you’re at Georgia or competing against Georgia and it’s always a great day to be a Gator when you beat Georgia. Gators really did a phenomenal job sticking together, fighting all the way through. We had a little hiccup here and there and yet nobody panicked. Everybody followed through did their job trusted their training trusted

Boogie Fland gets a defensive stop against Georgia (Photo by Chris Spears) The mathematics favor 12 th -ranked Florida, so much that everybody on the planet expects a blowout today (12 noon, ESPN) when the Gators (20-6-11-2 SEC) take on Ole Miss (11-15, 3-10 SEC) in Oxford. The Gators have won six straight games including their last five on the road and they have a 2-game cushion in the Southeastern Conference standings. Ole Miss, on the other hand, has lost eight straight ga

The Gators need to come out aggressively in each of these games and play their brand of softball regardless of the opponent

It was shock and awe in high definition — The Massive Mountain Man, The Nigerian Nightmare, The Sultan Of Swat. Pick your favorite and hope the trademark lawyers are asleep

Rueben Chinyelu in the locker room after the Gators won the 2025 national championship (Photo by Chris Spears) At the NBA 3-point contest in 1988, Larry Bird arrived in the locker room, surveyed his opponents and asked, “Which one of you guys is playing for second?” Out on the floor, Bird never even took his Boston Celtics warmup jacket off and won, beating Dale Ellis in the final round. He hoisted his index finger to signal No. 1 before his final shot even dropped through th

Alex Condon scores his 100th point as a Gator (Photo by Chris Spears) When he grades the film of 12 th -ranked Florida’s 78-66 win over South Carolina, Todd Golden will have no problem whatsoever filling up a legal pad with items that must be corrected. Pretty, it wasn’t but grind it out wins count just the same as the aesthetically pleasing wins that send the fan base into frothing at the mouth frenzies.   The outcome was never in doubt Tuesday night. Almost from the opening

Todd Golden has the Gators in the SEC driver's seat (Photo by Chris Spears) With six games remaining in the regular season, Florida is in the driver’s seat for its first Southeastern Conference championship since 2014. The SEC awards its conference championship to the team that wins the regular season. For NCAA Tournament purposes, the winner of the SEC Tournament gets the automatic berth. The Gators have a 1-game lead over Arkansas and a 2-game lead over Vanderbilt, Alabama,

Xaivian Lee was SEC Co-Player of the Week (Photo by Chris Spears) The very last thing Todd Golden wants is for the now 12 th -ranked Gators (19-6, 10-2 SEC) to bask in the glow of a win over the Kentucky Wildcats. Any win over Kentucky is a good win and should be celebrated but not at the expense of whatever and whoever is next. In this case, it’s South Carolina (11-14, 2-10 SEC), a team the Gators whomped by 47 points back on January 28.   Things are certainly different now.

The Gators end the week at 12-0 and look to continue building that resume with a mid-week game and another round-robin tournament this weekend.

There was no room in the Florida setlist for “My Old Kentucky Home.” Todd Golden’s group, now ranked No. 14 and climbing, treated the visiting Wildcats like a cover band playing the wrong song in the wrong key

Tommy Haugh powers up for two of his 17 points (Photo courtesy of UAA Communications) There were stretches Saturday afternoon at the O-Dome in which we were treated by a team that has elbowed its way into serious Final Four contention. When the Gators are focused, motivated and playing hungry the way they did during the 10-2 run that began the game with Kentucky or the 11-2 second half explosion that caused the 11,230 sardined into the arena to nearly blow the roof off the jo