Florida’s men’s basketball team faces one of the great challenges of its season this Tuesday night — and no, it’s not Vanderbilt’s squad that presents it, but rather the still-annoying package of playing the Commodores on the elevated Memorial Gym court.
The Gators haven’t been unimpeachable when subjected to that setup, which also includes the venue’s baseline-set benches, in recent years: Florida won in Nashville in its first game after Keyontae Johnson’s collapse last season, survived a late Vandy push in the 2019-20 season, and handled the winless-in-SEC-play ‘Dores in 2018-19, but dropped their first three trips to Nashville under Mike White, part of a longer stretch of struggles against the Commodores.