The Florida Gators are now on an eight-game win streak, courtesy of their 73-65 victory over the Vanderbilt Commodores. Bradley Beal, Kenny Boynton and Erving Walker led the way for the Gators, while Mike Rosario and Will Yeguete also came up big throughout the game. Boynton had a team-high 18 points, including two late free throws and a late three-pointer to seal the victory.
The victory is also the Gators' 19th consecutive win at home, which is the seventh longest streak in the country.
Coming into the game both teams ranked in the top 10 nationally in effective field goal percentage. As is seemingly common in those situations, both teams struggled shooting the ball. The Gators, who were fourth in the country, shot 37 percent from the field, while Vanderbilt, ranked eighth, shot 41 percent.
Beal filled up the score sheet with 16 points, seven rebounds and four assists, finishing as the Gators' second leading scorer on the day. Walker chipped in with 11 points, five rebounds and five assists, while Rosario -- whose defense played a big part in the victory -- had 10 points, two rebounds and two assists off the bench to finish up the four Gators who scored in double figures.
Patric Young, who got his first start since coming off the bench the last five games, was largely ineffective due to foul trouble. Young played only 14 minutes and had just two points and four rebounds while picking up the four personal fouls that kept him on the bench for large portions of the game.
The Gators as a whole shot 16 of 17 from the free throw line, which, according to CBS RapidReports, is their best performance in a victory this season. The Gators also out-rebounded the Commodores, 31 to 29; considering that Young and Erik Murphy were in foul trouble for stretches, that is quite an accomplishment.
Jeffery Taylor led the Commodores with 25 points, while star players Festus Ezeli and John Jenkins were held in check by the Gators defense, scoring 11 and 15 points, respectively.
Florida next plays at Kentucky on Tuesday night.
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You can keep Austin Rivers
I’m damn happy to have Beal playing for us
SC-Gator - February 4, 2012 via Android app
Agreed
would’ve liked both, but I feel like the Gators got the better player now.
Chekhov's Spread Gun Option - February 4, 2012
Ditto
Gatorbuc15 - February 4, 2012
Thanks for the recap, didn't get to watch today.
Couple of pet peeves with the writing in the article: twice the word “lead” is used when “led” is meant, and the comma usage was just all over the place. Still, I love the volume of articles and the promptness with which they’re posted. Definitely worth the trade-off on editing.
doker - February 4, 2012
Fixed some of the comma’s for you. But I will say that in my defense as a history person, that’s what we are trained to do when writing.
Cite your work and use comma’s more often than not. I can’t tell you how many points on papers I lost because I didn’t have enough comma’s. Because a lot of time we’d be covering a wide subject of time and or places, with a lot of stuff happening and we’d have to cover it rather quickly.
The hardest thing I had to do in college, was to take the trading between the 13th century Italian city-states of Genoa, Pisa and Florance (with a little bit of Venice mixed in there for good measure) and get it under 20-pages. Not even counting the footnotes. You should have seen the comma’s in that thing. There was almost a comma (or a footnote at the end) in every sentence.
I took that paper to the head of the English department to review it and she basically threw it in the trash because of the comma’s and my usage of the semi-colon. The head of the history department loved it and I got a 98 on the paper.
I think I read somewhere (I think your Twitter account) that you’re a teacher. If you’re an English teacher … yeah, sorry. We history people with our APA (or Chicago) style of writing laugh at them.
Because everybody knows that MLA is garbage.
FlaGators - February 4, 2012
Sorry for jumping in this conversation
Just wanted to say you make an excelent job at this job, FG.
If I couldn’t read it, I’d never have some news about the Gators. I don’t care about too (or too few) comas, typos, etc. Just like to know what’s going on with UF. So thank you for the job here.
And doker, nothing personal against you or your comment, I just think FG deserves my compliment.
Fabio Broncos - February 4, 2012
I completely agree with Fabio's comment
I certainly didn’t mean to put down your writing, FG, as you definitely do an excellent job here. I value highly all the contributions you make to AA and always enjoy your articles, and really don’t normally mind over-commaing, as I’m sure I’m guilty myself.
The lead/led thing is just something I notice a lot because someone once called me out for doing it. And you’re right, I am indeed a teacher (math, though).
But again, NOT meant as an insult. Keep doin’ what you do, FG. The site wouldn’t be my go-to Gators source without the incredible job you do.
doker - February 5, 2012
Gators Basketball!
I’m not the man who likes basketball as the best sport in the history of the world. But man, after an awful regulare season we had in football, it’s great to see (and enjoy) some Gators Ws.
I’m trying to watch our basketball games more often than usual, I’m it’s really being a pleasure to do it. Just hope the kids keep it coming!
GO GATORS!
Fabio Broncos - February 4, 2012
I'm excited for the Kentucky game. Any chance someone can do a pregame write-up?
Also: if we lose to UK on Tuesday, that’ll mean we lost to the #1, 2, and 3 teams on the road. Ridic.
doker - February 5, 2012
lol Yeah
Hopefully they’ll buck the trend.
Gatorbuc15 - February 5, 2012
We'll have more than a few things on Tuesday.
Promise.
Andy Hutchins - February 5, 2012
Pregame would be great
Really can’t hype up Tuesday’s match-up enough.
RowdyTownMayor - February 5, 2012
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