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Florida Gators Advance-Donovan’s Gators Knock-Out UCLA.

The number two seeded Florida Gators led by coach Billy Donovan met the number seven seeded Bruins of UCLA in the southeast region of the NCAA tournament to see who would advance to the sweet sixteen. At the previous two meetings the Gators defeated UCLA and ended up national champions. Florida’s SEC team beat the Pac-10 team by a final score of 73-65.

The Florida Gators are now 4-0 against Pac-10 teams in the NCAA tournament.

At the two previous meetings between the two teams in the tournament, the Florida Gators defeated UCLA in 2006 in the national championship game and in 2007 in the semifinals. I guess you could say Billy Donovan has the Bruins’ number. For the Gators, outside shooting sensation Kenny Boynton had 12 points and 5 assists. Late in the 4th quarter, Boynton went out of the game for a brief period after rolling his ankle when coming down from a jump shot landing on the foot of Smith of UCLA, their 325 pound freshman.

For the Florida Gators, UCLA’s Smith posed some match up problems.

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Finishing with 16 points and 6 rebounds, the big freshman was tough to stop once he got deep down inside. Smith was still able to post these very respectable numbers despite getting into foul trouble. The UCLA big men were so dominant that the Gators didn’t get one offensive rebound the first half. Their first offensive rebound came at the 17:19 mark of the second half. While the Florida Gators were able to neutralize Smith’s presence down low with a good outside shooting game, fans were probably more concerned about Boynton going down after rolling his ankle late in the game. The roll was so bad that time had to be called and trainers came out to assist the Florida Gator player off the court. He would not return to the game. While the game was tight and back and forth, the men from Florida were able to knock down back to back 3 pointers late in the game to help secure the victory. Next up, the Florida Gators will play Thursday to take on the winner of the BYU-Gonzaga game.

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