Mike White tossed his blue suit jacket to the floor and walked to the center of his team’s huddle before his players had fully assembled. Outsized by all but two of them, the second-year Florida basketball coach wasn’t intimidated.
To the contrary, he wanted to calm his players down after they’d given Vanderbilt a 5-0 lead to open Saturday’s game. He thought he’d done so. But then they dribbled the ball down the floor following the timeout and eventually passed it to center John Egbunu.
Turnover.
Those struggles were the beginning of a trying day for White, which ended in his postgame press conference following the 68-66 loss to the Commodores.