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When the Florida Gators men’s basketball schedule was revealed in October, the team was scheduled to travel to the Bubbleville Tournament at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut, on Nov. 25 to begin their season.

Now, a few cancellations, adjustments, and announcements later, head coach Mike White and his team are still traveling to Mohegan Sun to begin their season. However, instead of starting on Nov. 25 against the University of Massachusetts – Lowell, the Gators will begin their season against Army on Wednesday before playing Boston College on Thursday.

The team’s schedule has been hard to track for the last week. The Gators original opening games in Connecticut, against UMass Lowell and then-No. 4 Virginia, were canceled on Nov. 22 after COVID-19 forced the team to pause all activities for a week. So those two games were out the window.

The next game on the Florida schedule was supposed to be in Oklahoma against the Sooners on Dec. 2. Then the Oklahoma basketball team tweeted Sunday that both teams had mutually agreed to cancel that game as well and push the start of their home-and-home series to begin next season. Three straight games had been called off to start the season and some especially dramatic fans began to question if the team would ever play a game.

However, when Florida announced the Oklahoma cancellation itself, they said more scheduling news would be coming the next day, a signal of hope. Jon Rothstein from CBS tweeted Sunday night that Florida would be headed back to Mohegan Sun, a week later than originally scheduled, for a pair of games to finally get 2020-21 underway later this week, and the school confirmed his announcement and the opponents the next day.

The Black Knights are currently 3-0 after wins against Merchant Marine, Central Connecticut, and Buffalo, Army’s best start to a season in five years. Boston College opened the season with a tough loss to then-No. 3 Villanova before beating Rhode Island to move to 1-1 for the young season.

Keyontae Johnson, Scottie Lewis and the rest of the team may have wanted to get their season started a little sooner than Dec. 2, but the men’s basketball team is finally ready to get their season underway after what is hopefully the last of the delays.