The Florida Gators turned college basketball on its head just a few days ago with their dominant 30-point victory over top ranked Tennessee, marking the most lopsided victory over an AP No.1 team since UCLA beat Houston 101-69 in the 1968 final four, according to Josh Dubow of the AP.
While the win was an outstanding effort and helps Florida in more ways than one, the Gators are focused on making sure they don’t get complacent as there’s much more to play for in 2025.
“It was a good, hard practice yesterday. Our guys understand that we’re not satisfied at all,” Florida head coach Todd Golden said on Friday. “We kind of talked about it after our Carolina win, ‘This can’t be like the highlight of our season. It was a great win. It was an awesome environment. It was a great game, but if we were talking about something in December as being a great highlight, we wouldn’t have had the season we wanted to have.’ We had that same conversation after Tuesday night. It was an incredible win. Obviously a great program-building win, speaks volumes about where we are at and how good our guys are playing. But if we’re in April and we’re talking about our win against Tennessee in January, like we haven’t done what we want to do. The guys, I think, understand very well that it was a great win, but if we don’t win tomorrow, nobody will remember it.”…