The Florida Gators men's basketball team represents the University of Florida in the sport of basketball. The Gators compete in NCAA Division I's Southeastern Conference (SEC). Home games are played at the Exactech Arena in the Stephen C. O'Connell Center on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus.
Success was rare for several decades, although the University of Florida basketball team took the court in 1915. The program didn't have an adequate gymnasium before the Florida Gymnasium in 1950, did not seek the services of a full-time basketball trainer until Norm Sloan at 1960, and did not play in a contemporary arena until the O'Connell Center started in 1980. Florida made its first postseason tournament appearance in the 1969 National Invitation Tournament and appeared at the NCAA tournament in 1987, but constant success was elusive, and the Gators often found themselves at the bottom half of their conference standings.
The basketball program of florida eventually found consistent victory . Recently as Florida's trainer, Donovan led the schedule to seven of its eight Southeastern Conference (SEC) regular season championships, all four SEC tournament championships, two of twenty-two NCAA Tournament appearances, four from five Final Four appearances, along with back-to-back national championships in 2006 and 2007. Florida's head coach since 2015 has been Mike White, who has led the Gators to three NCAA Tournament bids in his first four seasons at the school.
Read more: sports-opinionated.com
