The Florida Gators finished out the 2009-2010 men’s basketball regular season on Sunday afternoon with a 66-74 loss to the No. 3 Kentucky Wildcats. No one was giving the Gators a chance to win that game in Lexington, but it still sucks to see our team close off the season with three straight losses. That is definitely not going to sit well in the minds of the NCAA Tourney voters. The Gators will now travel to Nashville on March 11 for the SEC Tournament. They’ll have to win a game or two here to ensure a trip to the NCAA Tournament.

Anybody else freezing their toes off in North Florida? Yeah, It really shouldn’t be this cold in March. But anywho, just thought I’d weigh in on how the NFL scouting combine turned out for the former Gators, and the chances of Billy Donavon’s team getting into the big dance…Last week, the Tebow show moved it’s cameras to Indy and the NFL scouting combine. Tebow did fairly well at the combine, despite not throwing because of his throwing motion and mechanics being under reconstruction…

Typing away at the laptop while taking a lunch break…..
Hard to believe the Winter Olympics are already over; aside from the pre-opening ceremonies tragedy involving the luger from Georgia (Nodar Kumaritashvili) being killed on a training run, Vancouver deserves to be highly commended on a job well done. Based on the fact that the United States and Canada brought in the lion’s share of the total medals as well as staged impressive championship hockey games, albeit with Team USA settling for silver medals in both the men’s and women’s finals, …

Just when you think the Gators are on the right track, we go and do something stupid like losing to a Georgia team with only 12 wins. The Bulldogs defeated the Gators by a final score of 76-78 at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens. The Gators are now 20-9 overall and 9-5 in the SEC. Their next game is against Vanderbilt in Gainesville – a tough game, and possibly most win for the Gators.

We did it! The Florida Gators took charge and won a must-win game at home against the No. 17 ranked Tennessee Volunteers by a final score of 75-62. I believe the Gators were No. 51 in the RPI before this game, but should rocket into the 40s after last night’s performance. Florida is now 20-8 overall (9-4 SEC), making it their twelfth straight 20-win season. If they can just win one more game they should be Tournament bound.

The Florida Gators men’s basketball team has a HUGE game against the Tennessee Vols on Tuesday night in Gainesville. The Vols come into the game ranked No. 19 in the country, with the same SEC record (8-4) as the Gators. Florida ia definitely on the bubble right now and must beat Tennessee to have a chance at the NCAA Tournament. Tip off is scheduled for 9pm on ESPN.

The Florida Gators (17-8) host the Auburn Tigers (12-13) tonight at the O’Connell Center. Tip off is at 7:00 PM and the game will be aired on ESPN. The Gators have lost two in a row and desperately need to get back on the winning track. Auburn should be just the team to get them there.

Thinking about a few topics concerning all things Florida Gators…
Dan Werner. I think we are all in agreement that Dan Werner is a liability on the court at any given time. Now I’m not one that concentrates too much on basketball. I try to catch every Gator basketball game I can, but I certainly have less knowledge of the game than some. But every time I have seen Werner check in this season, I get nervous. He is shooting a career-low .336 from the field, and .279 from bonus …

The Xavier Musketeers stole a game against the Florida Gators men’s basketball team tonight in the O’Dome. I never would have thought the Gators would lose this game, especially playing it at home. But once again, the Gators couldn’t hit a free throw to save their lives and it cost them another game. The Gators are now 17-8 and with only 6 games remaining, their chances of making the tourney are looking very slim.

In one form or another, we’re all going through that dreaded syndrome called “football withdrawal” now that both National Signing Day and the Super Bowl have come and gone. Those of us who follow Gator basketball find that helps take the edge off a little, but for the next two weeks I’ll be following another sporting event that I enjoy, even though we lack snow in this great state of Florida: the Winter Olympics.

The Florida Gators were leading almost the entire game, but were clearly outplayed in the second half by South Carolina and ultimately lost to the Gamecocks last night by a final score of 71-77. We kept hearing about how great Devan Downey is all week and he didn’t disappoint last night. He torched the Gators for 24 points and nabbed 4 steals. The Gators now fall to 17-7 overall and 6-4 in the SEC.