by Neil Shulman | Mar 30, 2014 | Basketball Game Recaps, Gator Basketball, General College Basketball, Road to North Texas
It’s over. Three years of Elite Eight failures, and the heartache, misery, tears and anguish that came with them, are nothing but history now. And while they’re at it, maybe this team has a little more- and better piece of- history they’d like to...
by NW Blackmon | Mar 29, 2014 | Gator Basketball, Road to North Texas
As Neil Shulman recapped yesterday, Florida defeated UCLA Thursday night for the fourth time in NCAA Tournament play and in so doing advanced to its fourth Elite 8 in as many years. No other college basketball program has achieved that feat– in fact, with...
by Neil Shulman | Mar 28, 2014 | Basketball Game Recaps, Gator Basketball, Road to North Texas
The number four sure has relevance in Gator basketball these days. Four times, UCLA has squared off against the Florida Gators- and lost. Four straight years, the Gators have faced tough Sweet 16 competition, and pulled away from their opponents (BYU, Marquette,...
by NW Blackmon | Mar 26, 2014 | Gator Basketball, Road to North Texas
What a difference a week makes. Analyzing March Madness is literally down to a science– see, Silver, Nate and Lunardi, Joe– and heading into the tournament’s first week(end) we’re inundated with data and a healthy dose of logic. We hear the...
by NW Blackmon | Mar 19, 2014 | Gator Basketball, Road to North Texas
In the wake of Florida’s SEC Tournament Championship Sunday afternoon, Neil Shulman wrote here that Florida had a relatively “easy” path to the Final Four. Latching onto Billy Donovan’s father’s comments that “the committee...
