If the Florida Gators men’s basketball program is going to make the 2023 NCAA Tournament, it will be through accruing a bunch of wins in a row down the stretch of an SEC schedule that lightens up in mid- and late February.
Of course, the Gators couldn’t get one such win last Saturday against middling but rising Vanderbilt. But the good news is that this Wednesday brings Ole Miss to Gainesville — and Ole Miss might be just the second legitimately bad team the Gators have seen in conference play.
The Rebels are just 2-10 in the SEC, a half-game better than the South Carolina team they beat for one of their two conference wins — Georgia without Terry Roberts provided the other — and are the rare Division 1 team more challenged by the basic action of shooting a basketball than Florida.