Gators vs. Tide Men's Hoops

[Mr2Bits]

The Gators are on the road again... this time in Alabama for a 7:00 tipoff against the Crimson Tide. The Tide are coached by long-time Florida assistant Anthony Grant.

Florida Probable Starters (15-6, 4-3)
No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. PPG/RPG
25 Chandler Parsons F 6-9 218 Jr. 10.7/6.6
23 Alex Tyus F 6-8 220 Jr. 12.8/6.9
32 Vernon Macklin C 6-10 240 Jr. 9.8/5.1
1 Kenny Boynton G 6-2 183 Fr. 14.4/3.1a
11 Erving Walker G 5-8 171 So. 13.0/5.2a

Alabama probable starters (13-8, 3-4)
No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. PPG/RPG
5 Tony Mitchell F 6-6 185 Fr. 8.9/5.3
32 JaMychal Green F 6-9 220 So. 14.6/7.2
44 Chris Hines F 6-8 220 Jr. 3.2/3.0
1 Anthony Brock G 5-9 165 Sr. 5.6/2.1
2 Mikhail Torrance G 6-5 210 Sr. 15.1/5.5a

 

[O-town Gator]

Caught the second half of the game after I got home from my Gator Club get-together; the Bama fans were booing Chandler Parsons.

At 4:34 in the 2nd Florida's up 59-56.

Can't believe the Bama students didn't know diddly-squat about the history of "Big Al", the elephant mascot, when asked.

60-56 with a little over 3 minutes to go in the 2nd half.

 

[O-town Gator]

62-60 UF after a Gator turnover; Billy called TO.

Boynton missed a trey.

All that booing of Parsons reminds me of the way rival fans used to boo Matt Walsh in the mid-90's.

Damn. Erving Walker lost the ball and cost us 2; Bama was fouled. 64-63 UF at 1:09 left to go.

Now 65-64 Bama with :39 left to go. Walker missed a floater that would have kept us in the lead.

 

[O-town Gator]

3.5 seconds to go; Bama calls timeout. Gators need some good D to avoid a loss after the TO.

Florida won this one by the seat of their pants. Dan Werner saved the day by batting down the ball.

IMHO I don't see us going to the Big Dance barring a miracle; it's likely wait-'til-next-year for this team.

FINAL SCORE: Florida 66, Alabama 65

 

[CaliZona_Gator]

I'm mad that I couldn't watch this game. It was on ESPN-U, which I don't have. I thought it would be on ESPN360, but it wasn't. Anybody know where online I could have caught the game?

 

[Mr2Bits]

Anybody know where online I could have caught the game?

Ustream.tv is always a good place to go to try to find games online.

Here's a video of how it ended:

[YOUTUBE]uYcVmCV1zDo[/YOUTUBE]

 

[eskimoforgators]

Thanks for posting the winning shot. I missed it too last night.