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Perhaps it’s just me, but if feels like the college basketball watching public at large is barely talking about Billy Donovan’s best Florida team since his back-to-back national championship squads from 2006 and ’07.
Yes, that includes Lost Lettermen. Of all the teams currently in the Top 10, perhaps No. 10 Oregon is the only one that we’ve spoken about less than Florida. Heck, even in the SEC we’ve had more to talk about with Kentucky (unexpected struggles after a championship season) and Ole Miss (the can’t-take-your-eyes-off-him insanity of Marshall Henderson).
Yet like their Gators’ namesake, fourth-ranked Florida is lying in wait. Let the other teams in the Top 25 and the SEC grab all the headlines now. Come March, however, you better believe that...
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