BREAKING: The Florida Gators Men’s Basketball team has been ranked #21 in the Preseason AP Poll.
BREAKING: The Florida Gators Men’s Basketball team has been ranked #21 in the Preseason AP Poll.
This is the highest ranking of the Todd Golden era and the program’s highest ranking since November 2021. #GoGators
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Zone defense is simply not something Todd Golden is comfortable playing, so it’s hard to imagine the Gators mixing it in this year. Golden has said he’s giving up more defensive decision making to his assistants so perhaps we do see one of them pushing for more zone, but given how reluctant Golden is to playing it I’m not going to bet on the Gators using it all that often. One of Florida’s (many) defensive issues last year was that they didn’t really have a backup plan past their regular defensive scheme so a zone would have been a great change. While this year’s team should be better defensively, they might need to have something else in the toolbox, so we’ll see.
