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Florida closed the game on an 18-4 run, creating a signature moment in a March Madness run that has gained serious traction.
From USA TODAY College Sports Wire
Florida star Walter Clayton Jr. knocked down the game-tying 3-pointer with just over two minutes to go and hit the go-ahead long ball just a few possessions later to give Florida a one-point lead.
From Mercury News
Florida will face the South Region champion — either Auburn or Michigan State — next Saturday in San Antonio.
From U.S. News & World Report
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They had to do a lot wrong for Tommy not to show up and be a Gator the next day,” Ryan Haugh, Thomas’ father, said Saturday on the Chase Center floor. “That was his lifelong dream. He bled orange and blue while the rest of Pennsylvania was bleeding blue and white.
The Florida Gators are headed to the NCAA Tournament's Final Four with a lot believing that they could come out as national champions in March Madness. But, things were not always this way for the SEC squad.
Jeremy Foley, the legendary former athletic director at UF, made two of the greatest hires in modern college sports history when he plucked an unproven 29-year-old coach from Marshall named Billy Donovan to lead his basketball program and then outmaneuvered Notre Dame to hire football coach Urban Meyer.
Florida basketball coach Todd Golden's combination of intellect, personality and roster-building has guided UF to a 34-win season and Final Four trip:
But the Gators looked much more like the hottest team ... the fact that just before Maryland’s first NCAA Tournament game, athletic director Damon Evans left to take the same job at SMU.
Walter Clayton Jr. carried the Gators in the final minutes of their Elite Eight game against Texas Tech, clinching game with a huge three-pointer.
The Florida Gators are the hottest team in the country, and The Athletic took notice heading into the weekend.
Florida basketball coach Todd Golden was investigated over sexual harassment complaints. Assistant coach Taurean Green also was accused of sexual assault.