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The best SEC basketball team not named Kentucky was decided Saturday. It’s Florida, pending further developments.

Specifically, the development of Bradley Beal.

He potentially is the Gators’ best player, and he showed that against Mississippi State on Saturday afternoon at the O'Connell Center. The freshman guard had 19 points as Florida won what passed for a regular-season showdown.

“Florida is good, man,” Bulldogs’ coach Rick Stansbury said. “Very good.”

How good, nobody can say. There’s still way too much schedule left, but the 14th-ranked Gators are 17-4, and two of those losses came on the road to Ohio State and Syracuse.

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