It’s been eight years. More than 2,500 days. Seven games. And all sorts of heartache.
But with Florida State in town on Sunday (1 p.m., ESPN or WatchESPN), the most important non-conference game of the Florida Gators men’s basketball schedule is back again — and thus the season’s only scheduled chance for the Gators to get what was once a monkey and is now practically a gorilla troop off of the program’s figurative back has arrived.
FSU’s streak of seven wins is its longest and now tied for the longest in a rivalry that dates to 1951, even if it’s an aberrant one for the rivalry’s history — which, given the Gators’ current 43-29 advantage would still be in Florida’s favor if the Seminoles won this matchup and every other one through 2033.