The Florida Gators men’s basketball team’s quixotic — or itinerant, or just weird — 2021-22 season continues on Wednesday, with a 3 p.m. game at Missouri (SEC Network or streaming) rescheduled from a primetime tip to accommodate the Gators getting out of the Show-Me State before it becomes Hoth.
The good news about this unusual affair is that it should be one of Florida’s less challenging games in recent memory.
The bad news? That’s should, not will.
Missouri is, yes, a losing team that will not be making postseason play barring the sort of revival usually reserved for figures from religious texts, one that has dropped games to Missouri-Kansas City — the school that Brandon McKissic transferred to Florida from — and Liberty and has been wiped off the court by Kansas (by 37), Illinois (by 25), Kentucky (by 27), and Arkansas (by 44) since mid-December alone.