Florida basketball continued its Southeastern Conference schedule on Saturday afternoon inside the O’Connell Center with a comfortable 77-64 victory over the visiting Vanderbilt Commodores, improving the team to 19-8 overall with a 9-5 mark in SEC play.
Following the win, the Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings dropped the Orange and Blue a spot from our previous update to No. 28 overall, putting them between the No. 27 Dayton Flyers and No. 29 Colorado State Rams.
The Pomeroy rankings use adjusted efficiency margin — the difference between adjusted offensive efficiency and adjusted defensive efficiency — to rank all teams.
Golden’s gang now has a margin of plus-18.23 (down 0.27 points) which means the team is expected to score 18.23 more points than the average opponent. They fell three spots to 14th in adjusted offensive efficiency (119.6) but gained seven spots in adjusted defensive efficiency, ranking at 83rd (101.4).
KenPom also has Florida’s overall strength of schedule rated at plus-8.62, which is 37th in the nation; its non-conference schedule rating received a score of plus-1.40 which puts the Gators at No. 129.
The Gators remain in the O’Connell Center for their next game against the visiting Missouri Tigers, who come to town on Wednesday, Feb. 28. Tipoff is slated for 6:30 p.m. ET and will be broadcast on the SEC Network.
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