Florida vs. Baylor, Game Thread: Gators go big-game hunting against Bears

Kim Klement-USA TODAY SportsThe Florida Gators’ up-and-down 2019-20 season could find its ultimate up on this Saturday night in the O’Connell Center.

That’s what happens when a No. 1 team like the Baylor Bears comes to town for a showdown (8 p.m., ESPN or WatchESPN).

But this is, for Florida, a chance to do something transcending the SEC-Big 12 Challenge that this game serves as a sort of finale for — it’s a chance to mark itself, once and for all, as a genuinely good team.

That verdict has been difficult to make, despite the Gators’ fairly good record of performances this season. Their one bad loss — at Missouri, in a storm of threes that seems like an outlier as time passes — and their…