GAINESVILLE, Fla.-- For the first time in 375 days, the 16th-ranked Florida Gators have lost at home. Despite erasing an 18-point deficit in the second half, its largest of the season, the Gators on Saturday fell to rival Auburn in Exactech Arena, 76-64, in a rematch of last year's Final Four.
The last time the Auburn Tigers won a men’s basketball game at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center, the Florida Gators were just over a month into celebrating the football team’s first national championship.
Not too often can a program claim to have both the best coach and team in a conference, but it is a real possibility for the Florida Gators on the hardwood.
While Jon Sumrall and the Florida Gators staff made trips across the state throughout the week to visit 2027 recruiting targets ahead of an important junior day weekend, wide receiver coach Marcus Davis accompanied the head coach to Fort Lauderdale to see four-star receiver Anthony Jennings, a clear priority for the Gators early on in the cycle.
Though the Florida Gators have been busy on the recruiting trail recently as they begin to work towards building their 2027 class, that did not stop Jon Sumrall and his new staff from offering an elite 2028 prospect on Tuesday in wide receiver John Matthews.
Florida Gators head coach Jon Sumrall continues to be active in the transfer portal by adding a really intriguing depth piece at cornerback in East Carolina's Jordy Lowery.
The 2024-2025 Florida Gators basketball team was one of the better stories in the history of the program. Head coach Todd Golden did a great job of recruiting in the transfer portal to build up a championship-level team.
In a thrilling college basketball contest between the defending national champion in No. 19 Florida (13-5, 4-1 SEC) and No. 10 Vanderbilt (16-2, 3-2 SEC), it was the Gators who got the last laugh.
Following graduation in December, two former Florida Gator softball standouts, Kendra Falby and Kara Hammock, are staying in Gainesville this spring. Head coach Tim Walton is keeping the recent alumni on his roster, although this year serving different roles as student assistant coaches.
The Tennessee Vols may be in danger of losing a 2027 commit to the Florida Gators. 2027 three-star cornerback Kamauri Whitfield, 5-foot-11/185 pounds from Orlando, FL, has been committed to Tennessee since October, but the Gators gave him plenty to think about on a recent visit to Gainesville.
The Florida Gators are getting the nation's top recruit earlier than planned. Carolina Stanton, the No. 1 recruit of the 2026 class according to Softball America, signed her athletics aid agreement on National Signing Day in November and is enrolling at Florida for the spring semester.