Florida Gators Dominate: A Strong Run in the Tournament Continues

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00:00Florida Gators, one of the best teams in the country.

00:01You could argue maybe the hottest team in the country

00:03coming into the tournament.

00:05Easily dispatching of opponents here,

00:06playing great basketball.

00:08And yesterday, same exact story, Joe.

00:1087-71, Maryland Terrapins.

00:12The Crab Five season ends on a 16-point loss,

00:173,000 miles away from home.

00:19But I gotta tell you here,

00:20like I'm looking forward to the Dogs covering.

00:23Two yesterday covered, two lost yesterday.

00:25This game, 40-38 the break.

00:27You thought it'd be close,

00:28but the Florida Gators hit that gas pedal

00:30in the second half to a 47-33 tune,

00:33enough for that easy victory over the Maryland Terrapins.

00:36We'll get to the coaching

00:37in just a little bit of what we think,

00:38but your initial thoughts for the Florida Gators

00:40moving on once again.

00:43Very, very Florida Gator-like.

00:46There's two teams that remain in this tournament

00:49that have the kind of depth that's scary,

00:53where your All-American players can have off games

00:57and you don't have to worry that people won't step up

01:01and come in off the bench and get the job done.

01:04Michigan State, who we'll see tonight,

01:06is one of those teams that can go 10 deep.

01:09And Florida's the other, who can go nine, 10 deep.

01:12And I mean, listen, their All-American guard,

01:15the leader of this team,

01:17was nowhere to be found last night in that game.

01:20And that might be the scariest part

01:22of anybody having to face them,

01:23given that they brought guys off the bench.

01:26The Bigs had a huge night there

01:28and they basically won the game in that second half.

01:32Very workmanlike.

01:33They play defense when they need.

01:35They've been tested already with UConn, right?

01:39So if they didn't turn the ball over 20 times

01:43in the first half, Donnie,

01:44they'd have won this game by 30 points.

01:46It wouldn't have even been close,

01:48but they kept turning the ball over for no good reason.

01:52Not because Maryland was playing great defense.

01:54It kept throwing the ball over the heads of their own guys.

01:58So all in all, they figured it out in the second half.

02:02It just, it's too much when you have nine, 10 guys

02:05on a bench and any one of them, Donnie,

02:08can beat you on any given night.

02:10That is tough to overcome in these kinds of situations.

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