Category: Winter Sports

  • MBB: Florida lands fourth transfer of tumultuous offseason

    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…

  • MBB: Gators land third transfer in Penn State’s Myreon Jones

    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,…

  • WGYM Liveblog: Athens Regional Final: No. 1 Florida v. No. 8 Minnesota, No. 9 Denver, No. 26 NC State

    We are back and ready to go! Thanks to all of you who tuned in with us yesterday for an exciting regional semifinal where the Gators knocked it out of the park for a massive 197.95 and NC State upset both Illinois and Central Michigan to advance to the final after being unfairly forced to…

  • MBB: Boston College transfer CJ Felder commits to the Gators

    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,…

  • MBB: Gators land UMKC transfer Brandon McKissic

    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…

  • WGYM Liveblog: Athens Regional ft. No. 1 Florida

    EDIT: Catch up here on all the action from semifinals, then head here to get in on the action for finals! After a surprising set of morning sessions, we are ready to go for session two with the Gators at regionals! To round up the events from this morning, California and Ohio State qualified to…

  • WGYM: Two Steps Back… Can the Gators Take Another Step Forward at Regionals?

    At the SEC Championships two weeks ago in Huntsville, it was almost like deja vu for some Gator fans. It’s never the same event, but at the last two SEC tournaments, Florida has had problems, tripping just before reaching the finish line that would earn it the first conference trophy since 2016. 2018 and 2019…

  • MBB: Colin Castleton to enter NBA Draft

    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…

  • MBB: Lon Kruger bids farewell to college basketball

    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…

  • MBB: Tre Mann declares for NBA Draft

    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…