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Chomping at the bit for Florida Athletics
Category: Basketball
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Mike White and the Florida men’s basketball team refuse to slow down in the transfer market. Charleston Southern guard Phlandrous Fleming announced on Twitter he would join the Gators for the 2021-22 season. Fleming, a 6 foot 4 inch Georgia native, scored prolifically at Charleston Southern. He averaged 20.1 points per game his junior year…
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Mike White continued his run in the transfer portal when Myreon Jones, a Penn State junior guard, announced his commitment to play for the Gators next season. Jones, who stands 6 feet, 3 inches tall, averaged 15.3 points per game on 39.4% from the field and 39.5% from three-point range. Jones also totaled 2.7 rebounds,…
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Head coach Mike White and the Gators secured their second win on the transfer portal Friday when news broke that Boston College forward CJ Felder chose Florida as his next destination. Felder, a 6-foot-7, 230 pound forward from South Carolina, played for the Eagles for two seasons. He appeared in 50 games, including 35 starts,…
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The Florida men’s basketball time earned its first transfer Friday, when Missouri-Kansas City guard Brandon McKissic announced he would spend 2021-22 in Gainesville via Twitter. McKissic, one of the most sought-after transfers, chose Florida over the likes of Kansas, Missouri, Saint Louis, Oregon State and Kansas State. McKissic spent four years at UMKC, and scored…
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Florida forward Colin Castleton joined Tre Mann and declared for the 2021 NBA Draft Sunday, he announced on Twitter The junior, who played at Florida for the first time in 2021 after he spent the previous two years at Michigan, scored 12.4 points per game, the second-most of any Gator, and paced the team with…
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Former head coach of the Florida Gators men’s basketball team Lon Kruger announced his retirement from college basketball Thursday. Kruger, who served as the head of the Oklahoma Sooners since 2011, met with his players to tell them he was stepping away from the sport, Jon Rothstein said on Twitter. Kruger first worked as a…
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Sophomore guard Tre Mann, the Gators leading scorer for the 2020-21 season, declared for the NBA Draft Wednesday. The announcement came three days after the season-ending loss to Oral Roberts in the NCAA Tournament, in a statement released on Twitter. Mann led the Gators with 16.0 points and 3.5 assists per game, as well as…
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Florida lost a heartbreaking upset to Oral Roberts on Sunday night, falling victim to the 15-seed Cinderella to bring its 2020-21 season to an anti-climatic end. While the Gators were left to ponder the end of their season and Tre Mann weighed his professional draft stock. As the scene in Indianapolis grew somber, Gators fans…
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Tre Mann forced up a deep three, an Oral Roberts jersey seemingly on top of him, a desperate plea for more Florida basketball in the 2020-21 season. His prayer found rim, then rim again and the Gators were forced to watch the 15-seed Cinderella story turn them into a pumpkin. Florida’s season came to an…
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Florida survived and advanced in the NCAA Tournament with a 75-70 win over Virginia Tech in the opening round. Meanwhile, the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles pulled off the upset of the tournament knocking off No. 2 seed Ohio State. The following are our staff predictions for the Florida – Oral Roberts matchup. … Brian Fox:…
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