The college basketball regular season has officially come to a close and what a campaign it was for the Florida Gators. After a sluggish start, Todd Golden’s gang went perfect in December before hitting another roadblock at the start of the Southeastern Conference schedule.
Then midway through January, the Orange and Blue found another gear, winning 10 of its last 14 to wrap up the regular season; the one blemish was the final loss last weekend.
Following Saturday’s defeat at the Vanderbilt Commodores, USA TODAY Sports’s bracketology update dropped Florida down a spot to a No. 7 seed, moving from the East Region to the West. There, the Gators are matched up with the No. 10 Nebraska Cornhuskers to start things off, while the No. 2 North Carolina Tar Heels and No. 15 Sam Houston State Bearkats also join them in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Southeastern Conference is represented by the West Region’s top-seeded Tennessee Volunteers, along with the Kentucky Wildcats (No. 3, Midwest), Alabama Crimson Tide (No. 4, Midwest), Auburn Tigers (No. 4, Eat), South Carolina Gamecocks (No. 5, South) and Mississippi State Bulldogs (No. 11 West).
Mississippi State is also one of the last four in while the Texas A&M Aggies are among the next four out.
Florida is a No. 6 seed in the SEC Tournament, giving it a first-round bye and matching the Gators up with the winner of Game 2 on Thursday, March 14, inside Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Tipoff is slated for a late 9:30 p.m. ET start on the SEC Network.
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