Amanda Butler has been dealt a bad hand all season.
The coach in her 10th year at the helm of the Florida women’s basketball team has had to handle her leading scorer quitting the program, a slew of injuries depleting her roster down to eight active players and a demoralizing five-game losing streak — putting her team at the bottom of the SEC standings to open league play.
So when the Gators (10-9, 1-5 SEC) finally won their first conference contest of 2017 on Sunday against Georgia, no one was more hyped in the locker room than Butler herself.