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Florida is current Facing Alabama in an SEC clash. Part of the game is Charles Bediako playing for Alabama. Bediako was recently ruled eligible to play for Alabama, despite playing in the G League the past two years. As he played in the game, Florida fans made sure Bediako heard it in their game. Florida […]

The Florida Gators are the defending national champion, and while sitting tied for second in the tough SEC, seem to be in position to make another run in 2026. The team has had some hiccups this year, including recently losing to Auburn, but Florida rebounded with a historical performance against South Carolina. Still, one analyst […]

Florida basketball delivered a historic response Wednesday night, producing one of the most dominant road performances the Southeastern Conference has seen in decades. The Gators overwhelmed the South Carolina Gamecocks by a dominant score of 95–48 at Colonial Life Arena, posting a 47-point margin that had not been matched by any SEC road team in […]

As the No. 16 Florida basketball team was coming off a win over LSU, the program’s five-game winning streak would be snapped as they lost to the unranked Auburn Tigers on Saturday, 76-67. With the Florida basketball team on the wrong end of the upset against Auburn, head coach Todd Golden spoke about the pedestrian […]

As the unranked Auburn basketball team has upset certain programs this season already, add another one to the list after their 76-67 win over the No. 16 Florida Gators. With the Auburn basketball team led by head coach Steven Pearl, son of Bruce Pearl, he would speak about how the road win over Florida is […]

Florida basketball is on a solid run right now. They have won five straight games, including big wins over Tennessee, Georgia, and Vanderbilt. Florida is coming off another win, taking down LSU 79-61. In the game, Rueben Chinyelu was dominant, hauling in 21 rebounds and making some Florida history in the process. With Chinyelu having […]

After winning a national championship last season, Florida basketball was in a bit of a rut to start this season after losing a lot of production from last year’s team. A lot of the front court players were back for Todd Golden and company, but the Gators had to retool the backcourt after Walter Clayton […]

Tennessee just took its fifth loss of the season. It was a 91-67 beatdown at the hands of unranked Florida. Florida did not look like an unranked team on Saturday, and Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes spoke about AP poll voters about that fact after the game. “It has baffled me all year where I […]

After the Florida basketball team’s demolition of the Tennessee Volunteers, it was led by many contributions, especially from junior big man Rueben Chinyelu. It was another huge second half for the Florida basketball team, which propelled to the big victory on Saturday night, but Chinyelu’s performance was crucial, even garnering the attention of Tennessee’s head […]

With long-time Tennessee basketball head coach Rick Barnes leading the program, there’s no doubt major disappointment from Saturday night as the No. 21 unit lost to the unranked Florida Gators, 91-67. As Barnes knows what he’s looking for from the Tennessee basketball team on a game-by-game basis, he would speak on what led to the […]

Florida won its 14th straight game at Stephen C. O’Connell Center on Tuesday after rallying past Georgia, 92-77. The Gators upped the ante in the second half, outscoring the Bulldogs, 51-37, to improve to 10-5. They had a slow start in the contest, prompting coach Todd Golden to issue a challenge to his players at […]

The 2025 Florida basketball season had high expectations after the Gators won the national title the previous season. They brought back the majority of their frontcourt from last season, but they had to reload elsewhere. It has been a mixed bag, and they need to get things fixed. Head coach Todd Golden also identified the […]

Florida Gators added a memorable chapter to its season on Wednesday night, and it came from the final minutes of a game that was already well decided. In a 102-61 rout of Saint Francis Red Flash at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center, redshirt freshman center Olivier Rioux etched his name into college basketball history with […]

SAN FRANCISCO–  It has been a whirlwind last eight months for rookie Will Richard. He led the Florida Gators to their third-ever National Championship in April. Two months later, the Golden State Warriors selected the 22-year-old shooting guard with the 56th pick in the NBA Draft.  By November, on an unsuspecting rainy night on the […]

Todd Golden called out the No. 10 Florida Gators for breaking down in the final minutes of their 84-80 loss to the TCU Horned Frogs in the semifinals of the Rady Children’s Invitational on Thursday night. Going into the matchup, Florida had a 4-1 record on the season. Golden is coming off a remarkable 2024-25 […]

With the Florida basketball team looking to repeat as national champions, the team is currently on a 2-1 start to the season, with recently coming off a thrilling win over rival Florida State on Tuesday night, 78-76. As fans speculate the chances of the Florida basketball team winning the championship, the focus now is on […]

After a season-opening loss to Arizona, Florida bounced back in a big way by annihilating North Florida by 40 points, 104-64, on Wednesday at Stephen O’Connell Center. The third-ranked Gators came out firing and erected a commanding lead, 52-28, at halftime. It was mere formality from there, as the Ospreys were severely outmatched. With the […]

UConn pulled off something special in 2024, winning back-to-back national championships for the first time since 2007. Only eight programs in Division I history have managed that feat. Florida captured the 2025 title and now get their shot at joining that exclusive list. Todd Golden made history as the youngest coach to win a national […]

The 2025-26 men’s college basketball season officially tips off on Monday, Nov. 3. Anticipation is high after a thrilling March Madness tournament last season. Plus, NIL and the transfer portal bring a whole new twist to the college basketball landscape. Elite players are playing on new teams, both after transferring and because the freshman class […]

Las Vegas, Nevada, is host to a match-up of two Top-15 teams to open the college basketball season. Florida comes in ranked No. 3 in the nation and is the defending National Champion. Meanwhile, Arizona comes in ranked 13th in the AP Poll. They made a Sweet 16 run in 2024-25 and look to go […]

The defending national champion Florida Gators men’s basketball team is ranked third in the 2025-26 preseason AP Poll, which dropped on Monday morning. The last two runners-up, Purdue and Houston, grab the top two spots, respectively. UConn, which won the national championship in each of the two years before Florida, comes in just behind the […]

Florida basketball coach Todd Golden hopes to win back-to-back national championships, by taking the crown again this season. Golden got some good news as star transfer Boogie Fland got a positive injury report on Tuesday. “Boogie Fland (sports hernia) hopes to be fully cleared for all basketball related activities when the school year officially begins […]

Florida basketball head coach Todd Golden won the national championship without needing his 7-foot-9 center on the floor. Golden ended a more than decade long title drought in Gainesville without turning to his big man. But was Billy Napier secretly recruiting Olivier Rioux for Gators football? Rioux earned a chance to line up for the […]

The University of Florida made a big change this summer when it poached former University of Michigan president Santa Ono to come be the president in Gainesville. The move was announced back in early May, and all indications were that Ono was coming to represent the blue and orange as the new head of the […]

The Florida basketball team just won the national championship last month, and now the Gators are thinking about how they can do it again next season. There were a lot of question marks regarding what kind of talent Florida would get back for next season, and after the NBA Draft withdraw deadline, the team appears […]

Florida basketball head coach Todd Golden had a nice pay day a couple of weeks ago as he signed a six-year contract extension with the Gators. Golden has been the head coach at Florida for three seasons now, and in year three, he led the Gators to a national championship. Because of that, he got […]

The Florida basketball team got some good news on Tuesday as star big man Alex Condon will return to the program for another season. Condon has been testing the NBA Draft waters, but he decided that it is in his best interest to come back to Florida for one more season. Condon was a major […]

Florida basketball is throwing down a slam dunk in recruiting. The Gators got the pledge of star transfer guard Boogie Fland, per ESPN. Fland played last season for John Calipari at Arkansas. Fland is one of the most coveted players in the transfer portal. A potential NBA Draft pick, Fland decided to withdraw from the […]

The college basketball transfer portal is a big part of the offseason, and while a lot of teams are done shopping, the national champions aren’t. The Florida basketball team could be landing a huge commitment from the portal soon as Arkansas transfer Boogie Fland has locked in a visit with the Gators. “BREAKING: Top-10 overall […]

Florida basketball continues to reload amid another NCAA title run. Rueben Chinyelu will be returning to the program, according to CBB insider Jon Rothstein. Questions about the Gators depth continue to fly out the window. Not to mention, Florida basketball landed players like Boogie Fland in the transfer portal. They wasted no time making up […]

Florida basketball could reload this offseason. After they won the national championship, the transfer portal was calling their name. Despite Boogie Fland bailing from the NBA Draft, he remains in the transfer portal. As a result, the Gators have kept a close eye on him. ESPN’s Jeff Borzello detailed why Fland withdrew and went back […]

Florida Gators basketball coach Todd Golden has agreed to a six-year contract extension after winning the national title this past season, according to Jeff Goodman of Field of 68. The deal will take Golden through 2031 and make him one of the highest-paid coaches in college basketball. The Gators finished the 2024-25 season 36-4 and […]

Denzel Aberdeen left Florida basketball for Kentucky following the 2024-25 season. Gators head coach Todd Golden recently shared his thoughts on Aberdeen’s departure, via The Field of 68. “We had a really special group this year,” Golden said. “There’s three senior guards on the perimeter, gave us great leadership. And then our frontcourt guys… We […]

The Florida basketball team is riding high just weeks removed from an NCAA Tournament national title game victory over Houston. Unfortunately, there are some big changes with this Florida team, most notably Walter Clayton Jr. and Alex Condon going to the NBA Draft. Sam Alexis also entered the portal, so there are a lot of […]

Two weeks after claiming the 2025 national championship, Florida suffered its first loss to the college basketball transfer portal. While a handful of the team will depart for the NBA, third-year forward Sam Alexis became the team’s first addition to the portal. Alexis decided to enter the portal on Friday, per Sam Kayser of League […]

As Florida basketball will be represented in the NBA Draft with such players as Walter Clayton Jr., another one could possibly be heading on his way to the next level in Rueben Chinyelu. While the Florida basketball program looks to repeat as champions, Chinyelu could still be a part of it despite declarng for the […]

Even though its national championship is just over a week old, Todd Golden and Florida basketball are hard at work building a roster that can repeat and cut down the nets again next season. Of course, that will be easier said than done. The Gators are losing all three of their standouts in the backcourt […]

In its program, Florida basketball has a history of running things back, as evidenced by the 2006 and 2007 Gators teams. Now, Alex Condon might be thinking about that, even with the 2025 NBA Draft around the corner. Condon has until May 28 to decide whether to withdraw his name from the draft. Should he […]

Florida basketball made a rapid rise to the top off the sport in 2024-25, taking over the SEC, winning the conference tournament and then making a run all the way to the national championship. Despite dominating the best conference in college basketball in the conference tournament, Florida had far from an easy time navigating the […]