In its fifth Southeastern Conference matchup of the season, No. 5 Florida took on Vanderbilt in what was a seemingly manageable matchup. But rather than handling business on the road, the Gators left Nashville with their first SEC loss.
Vanderbilt (13-2, 4-2 SEC) cranked the dial and applied enough pressure to expose the cracks in Florida’s defense.
Behind the service line, both the Gators and Commodores were irrefutably lackluster. Florida posted 12 service errors and Vanderbilt had 15. Junior setter Taylor Parks had the most service errors of the game (four), but she did not let that impact the other aspects of her game…