The Florida Gators men’s basketball team returns to the parquet on Saturday in a road match with the Kentucky Wildcats as the month of March rapidly approaches. Both schools are fighting for their NCAA Tournament lives, though UK’s situation is much more dire than UF.
Kentucky has missed the tournament just twice since exiting out of NCAA penalties in the 1992 season, most recently in 2013, and is in danger of sitting out this season as they sit perilously perched on the bubble coming in. Florida sits between a No. 6 and No. 8 seed in most bracket projections with not much room to spare for unnecessary losses.
The historical momentum is on the Wildcats’ side, having won the last five meetings as well as 11 of the last 14. Florida’s last victory in the series came during the 2017-18 season, in which they took both games from their SEC rivals. The overall record between the two schools stands at 104-40 in favor of Kentucky, who has clearly owned this matchup since they first met in 1927.
UF’s longest losing streak to UK ran a total of 16 games from 1942 to 1964, while Florida’s longest winning streak of seven games unsurprisingly came from 2005 to 2008 — during the high-water mark of the university’s basketball program.
Along with those historical facts, there are a few other interesting numbers of note heading into Saturday afternoon’s game. Here is a look at three important digits courtesy of the press notes.
Everything you need to know to follow Florida basketball at Kentucky
Betting odds for Florida men’s basketball at Kentucky, per BetMGM