For the second straight day, the Florida Gators played one of their best halves of basketball this year in the first half of a game in the 2019 Charleston Classic.
The difference against Miami on Friday? They followed it up with an even better half, one that trivialized a game against a good team in a 78-58 win.
Kerry Blackshear Jr. being around, available, and awesome was a core part of that half and that difference, to be fair. A day after playing just a handful of minutes due to foul trouble and an ejection for a flagrant foul, Blackshear largely avoided whistles and put up his fourth double-double of the year, scoring 20 points and adding 11 rebounds and five assists.