Florida Loses To Missouri

#78
#78
BowlBrother85 said:
Granted, it wasn't as easy as the yellow brick road you had to the elite 8 in 2013 with Florida Gulf Coast in the sweet 16 but...drawing Wisc-Milwaukee (without Pearl) in the 2nd round and easily the worst 1 seed that year (Nova) in the elite 8? ...on top of the worst team to make the final four in the last 30 years in the semi's (Mason). Yes, you could not have scripted a better draw.
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As a fan of a school that has never appeared in a Final Four, I would think you would appreciate the difficulty in getting there.

When Cinderellas advance, it's not the fault of the teams hanging around.

In addition, "survive and advance" is cliche, but it's the truth.

Last year, a lot of Gator fans were happy UConn upset Michigan State. Turns out, UConn was happy about it too.

In 2000, Florida made it to the championship game before losing to Michigan State. They beat Duke and North Carolina along the way and did so with about as little nail biting as could be expected for a tournament game. But, it was the first round against Butler where they should have lost and lucked their way into a win.

Making the final four isn't easy.
 
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Aesius said:
UF will play their best game of the season against UT.
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We almost never struggle with UF in basketball...Even when they are good we usually beat them...During their back to back title run We beat them 3 out of 4 times...Only reason they beat us that one time was Chris Lofton was hurt and didn't play.
 
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99gator said:
As a fan of a school that has never appeared in a Final Four, I would think you would appreciate the difficulty in getting there.

When Cinderellas advance, it's not the fault of the teams hanging around.

In addition, "survive and advance" is cliche, but it's the truth.

Last year, a lot of Gator fans were happy UConn upset Michigan State. Turns out, UConn was happy about it too.

In 2000, Florida made it to the championship game before losing to Michigan State. They beat Duke and North Carolina along the way and did so with about as little nail biting as could be expected for a tournament game. But, it was the first round against Butler where they should have lost and lucked their way into a win.

Making the final four isn't easy.
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yep and that's whats so great about March Madness..unless its like a 1-16 or 2-15 matchup anybody can get beat by a lower seed
 
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#81
VOLnMiami said:
We almost never struggle with UF in basketball...Even when they are good we usually beat them...During their back to back title run We beat them 3 out of 4 times...Only reason they beat us that one time was Chris Lofton was hurt and didn't play.
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I think that's the point. Ya'll won in the reg season and have that to celebrate while they are celebrating NC's.
 
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wildnkrazykat said:
I think that's the point. Ya'll won in the reg season and have that to celebrate while they are celebrating NC's.
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No, that's not the point at all. We are talking specifically about our record vs. Billy. It's 18-19.

Their record against other teams has zero relevance at all to the topic - which is our upcoming game against Florida.

The fact they won a championship 8 years ago is of even less relevance in a season where they will be lucky to even have a winning record.
 
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99gator said:
As a fan of a school that has never appeared in a Final Four, I would think you would appreciate the difficulty in getting there.

When Cinderellas advance, it's not the fault of the teams hanging around.

In addition, "survive and advance" is cliche, but it's the truth.

Last year, a lot of Gator fans were happy UConn upset Michigan State. Turns out, UConn was happy about it too.

In 2000, Florida made it to the championship game before losing to Michigan State. They beat Duke and North Carolina along the way and did so with about as little nail biting as could be expected for a tournament game. But, it was the first round against Butler where they should have lost and lucked their way into a win.

Making the final four isn't easy.
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I agree with this... and those Florida teams were great. The front line of Horford, Noah and Brewer is one of college basketball's best in the last 20 years and you had a good bench. It's funny, I remember people thinking you would miss Matt Walsh and Anthony Roberson but you were much better without them. The two Tenn vs Florida games from '06 are still two of the best regular season games I've ever seen. They were both classics - and evidence of what a great coach Pearl was when he was here. We routinely beat more talented teams and in many cases such as Florida in '06 and Memphis in '08, on the road.
 
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golfballs said:
No, that's not the point at all. We are talking specifically about our record vs. Billy. It's 18-19.

Their record against other teams has zero relevance at all to the topic - which is our upcoming game against Florida.

The fact they won a championship 8 years ago is of even less relevance in a season where they will be lucky to even have a winning record.
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Tennessee will even its all-time record against Donovan this weekend.

Donovan's record against UT is of zero relevance to UF fans, as the true measure of our program's success (or failure) is what happens in the post season.

The fact that we made the Final Four last year takes some of the stank off this season...and we won't have a winning record this season.
 
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I feel like the rest of the SEC (Arky not included, even after that waxing) has engaged one another in a "one up" battle of Suckage.

"Oh yeah? You thought we were getting better playing UK close for 80% of a game? Watch us lay a complete turd and lose to Florida in a 17 point dumpster fire."

That JUST happened. BOOM!
 
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Hardwood_fanatic said:
I feel like the rest of the SEC (Arky not included, even after that waxing) has engaged one another in a "one up" battle of Suckage.

"Oh yeah? You thought we were getting better playing UK close for 80% of a game? Watch us lay a complete turd and lose to Florida in a 17 point dumpster fire."

That JUST happened. BOOM!
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After we lost to Vandy and Mizzou, I couldn't fathom another SEC team playing worse than UF right now.

I was wrong.
 
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