Playing without their leader Colin Castleton who is out with a broken hand the Gators will be in tough Saturday when they head to Fayetteville to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks. Losing Castleton on Wednesday against Ole Miss was a devastating blow to Florida’s NCAA Tournament chances but they’ll still try to rally and make a run–starting with Saturday’s game.
Florida (14-12, 7-6 SEC) is actually ahead of Arkansas (17-9, 6-7 SEC) in league standings, though Arkansas is considerably better in the NCAA’s NET Rankings at 21st and is also much better in KenPom at 22nd. Everything suggests that Arkansas is better than their SEC record suggests so the Gators will have a difficult challenge facing them on Saturday.