The Florida Gators men’s basketball season was supposed to start last Wednesday, against Maine or UMass Lowell; at the dawn of this week, after a pause for reasons related to COVID-19, it looked like the Gators would open their year at Oklahoma.
Instead, Florida’s 2020-21 campaign finally gets underway from the Mohegan Sun Casino this afternoon — at 2:30 p.m. on ESPN2, where all auspicious beginnings happen — against Army, in a remade version of the Legends Classic.
How we got here is a story unto itself, of course. But where the Gators will go this season is obviously far more interesting to most.