Remember late September of last year, when a group of Florida Gators traveled to Starkville to take on the Mississippi State Bulldogs in a game that was of outsized importance to both teams, but also featured teams that had taken puzzling losses early on in their respective seasons?
Tuesday night’s rematch of those schools on the basketball court (7 p.m., SEC Network or WatchESPN) is like that, but also a story of two teams trying to turn seasons around.
For the Gators, that season appears increasingly likely to not end with a postseason berth with every painful loss.