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Florida ran through a gauntlet to win the SEC championship, proving it is the best team in the best basketball conference.
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The Gators have five wins against top-20 KenPom teams by 14 or more points in March and refuse to quit against extreme adversity.
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Our greatest call of all time harkens back to when Gonzaga became, well...Gonzaga. Sure, now over a quarter-century later Mark Few's Bulldogs are a March Madness mainstay, but in 1999 the legend was beginning, and Few was in his final year as an assistant.
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The four teams participating in the Final Four this weekend in San Antonio are a perfect microcosm of the new era in college basketball. While a team such as Duke has built its roster with former blue-chip recruits such as Cooper Flagg,
Coach after coach, from Miami’s Jim Larrañaga to Virginia’s Tony Bennett to Villanova’s Jay Wright, have walked away from college basketball, saying it no longer holds the appeal it once did.
(1) Florida has advanced to the Final Four for the first time since 2014 after edging (3) Texas Tech 84-79 in the Elite Eight. The Gators trailed by nine points with less than three minutes remaining but finished the game on a 18-4 run to break the hearts of Red Raiders fans.
Andersen seemed distracted talking to ESPN Gainesville’s Talia Baia in the locker room. Baia is a student reporter at ESPN 98.1. She is studying journalism and communications at Florida.