August 25th, 2009 05:05pm
by Kevin Brockway
More tidbits from Florida coach Billy Donovan’s speaking engagement in Ocala last week.
– Donovan said his two biggest concerns heading into the season are unrealistic expectations surrounding incoming freshman McDonald’s All American guard Kenny Boynton, and junior center Vernon Macklin, a transfer from Georgetown: “If Vernon was this dominant center, he would still be at Georgetown. Kenny has had tremendous success in high school, but he’s moving up another level.”
– Florida strength and conditioning coach Matt Herring said that sophomore …
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August 24th, 2009 04:02pm
by Kevin Brockway
According to school records, Israeli point guard Nimrod Tishman is enrolled for classes for the fall semester at UF.
Tishman is still awaiting NCAA clearance to determine if he’ll be able to play basketball at UF this season. Because Tishman played overseas, the NCAA must determine whether his ties with the Maccabi Tel-Aviv club team affected his amateur status.
It’s unclear whether that will be determined before Florida’s opener Nov. 15 against Stetson.
The 6-foot-6 Tishman averaged 18.3 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.3 …
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August 20th, 2009 01:59pm
by Kevin Brockway
The SEC released its full men’s basketball schedule this afternoon, meaning Florida’s 2009-10 slate is now set.
Florida will open SEC play on Jan. 9 at Vanderbilt and close SEC play March 7 at Kentucky. Kentucky also will serve as the SEC home opener on Jan. 12 with a 9 p.m. tip at the O’Connell Center.
The new television deal with ESPN/CBS will bring increased national visibility to the Gators and the rest of the league. Of Florida’s 16 league games, 10 …
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August 18th, 2009 01:26pm
by Kevin Brockway
The semifinals for the Legends classic were announced by the Gazelle Group on Tuesday.
In the marquee game of the weekend, Florida will play Michigan State on Friday night, Nov. 27, in Atlantic City, N.J.
The game will tip between 7:30-8 p.m., or 30 minutes after the end of the first semifinal matchup between Rutgers and UMass, which starts at 5:30 p.m.
On Saturday, the consolation game will start at 5:30 p.m., with the finals following 30 minutes after the end of the …
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August 17th, 2009 03:51pm
by Kevin Brockway
Florida’s 2009-10 schedule continued to take shape with the announcement of ESPN’s Super Tuesday lineup.
Florida will host Kentucky on Jan. 12 at 9 p.m. at the O’Connell in a Tuesday night ESPN televised game. Also, Florida will host Tennessee on ESPN on Feb. 23 at 9 p.m. and will host Vanderbilt on ESPN on March 2 at 7 p.m.
Here’s look at the schedule, now including the ESPN televised SEC games:
November
2 St. Leo University (Exh.) Gainesville
9 Webber International (Exh.) Gainesville
15 Stetson …
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August 13th, 2009 02:27pm
by Kevin Brockway
In many ways, Louisville coach Rick Pitino has been a second father to Florida coach Billy Donovan.
In a poignant moment at the Dick Vitale gala last May, Donovan wondered what his life would have been like without Pitino. It was Pitino who developed the pudgy Donovan into a star college player at Providence, then helped launch his coaching career when he hired him as a graduate assistant at Kentucky.
So that must have made the news of Pitino’s admitted infidelity this …
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August 10th, 2009 07:09pm
by Kevin Brockway
In yet another sign of the apocalypse, an athlete who has yet to begin his junior year in high school has sent out a press release.
Mind you, this is no ordinary high school sophomore. This is Northeast Philly big man Rakeem Christmas, rated by Rivals.com at the top center in the Class of 2011.
Christmas listed Florida in his final eight school choices in the release, a list that includes Baylor, Georgetown, Indiana, Ohio State, Texas, Oklahoma and Villanova.
The 6-foot-9, 210-pound …
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August 6th, 2009 04:40pm
by Kevin Brockway
ESPN has set the start time of Florida’s SEC-Big East Challenge game against Syracuse.
The game will tip-off at 9 p.m. on Dec. 10 at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa and will air on ESPN. Mississippi State and DePaul will play the previous game of the doubleheader at 6:30 p.m. on ESPN2.
Tickets for the game are expected to go on sale in early September. For more info, visit http://www.secbigeastinvitational.com
Had a chance to catch up with Syracuse Jim Boeheim last …
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