Florida Gators Clinch Spot in National Championship Game

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00:00The Florida Gators back in the national championship game for the first time

00:03since 2007 when the Gators under Billy Donovan had won two in a row. How did Florida get there?

00:11With a second half rally of their own trailing Auburn by eight at the break and then winning

00:17the second half by 14. Florida victorious 79-73 in the All-SEC affair in the opening game of

00:25Final Four. Saturday winning 79-73 once again. Covering is a two and a half point favorite.

00:31A total DRS of 158.5 does stay under. You and I were live for this game on SportsGrid's Bracket

00:38Central coverage. How did the Gators pull it off in those second 20 minutes?

00:42They were just better in the second. They played better defense but understand this.

00:45I like the Florida Gators all week regardless if Jani Broome was 100 percent or not. It was

00:50apparent and Bruce Pearl said as much. He's not 100 percent but we don't think it's going to

00:54affect him. In the first half didn't look like it affected him all that much. Took a couple shots

00:58to the elbow. You saw him holding or you know wiggling it around for a little bit but in the

01:01second half he's clearly wasn't 100 percent. There's no way that that game goes off where

01:05he scores 15 total points but had the majority at the break and only shot four times in the

01:09second half. That's not the superstar player that we know Jani Broome from the regular season but

01:13you know where we had the superstar player? It was Walter Clayton Jr. 35 minutes 18 shot attempts

01:18from the floor. Five of eight from three-point range and 34 points. That was a kid that was 100

01:24percent playing the biggest in the biggest moments here and what a second half it was for Florida.

01:28That's hard to stick those. You're down eight at the break here on the national stage. Things

01:33aren't going your way and we watched it live on the set. Those first five minutes you said well

01:37what does that lead have to be? I said well Florida just can't lose like you know a 10-point

01:40shot here and get down by that much. They closed that lead with the 9-0 run right off the bat.

01:45Florida was there for business to start that second half in.