Florida’s journey to get back to college basketball relevance after a crushing week of losses to Oklahoma and Texas Southern and has a major stop on Sunday as the Gators will go to Brooklyn to take on the Maryland Terrapins in the Basketball Hall Of Fame Invitational. The Gators have played a number of non-conference games in New York over the last few years so it was no surprise when they added this game to the schedule, and they also anticipated a quality win opportunity against a team perennially in the upper half of the Big 10.
What they didn’t expect was for longtime Maryland head coach Mark Turgeon to decide 8 games into the season that he was calling it quits, something he did a week ago much to the surprise of the college basketball universe.