The Florida Gators men’s basketball team’s 2020-21 season has been many things, but most of all trying.
From the moment that the college sports industry lurched back into motion amidst a pandemic, it was a certainty that nearly every team would be swimming upstream against a dangerous pathogen and strict protocols. From the second that Keyontae Johnson collapsed to the floor in Tallahassee, Florida’s balance has been irrevocably altered, with its focus and fulcrum no longer able to take part in a season he was set to make revolve around what he could do on the court rather than the conditions that swept him off of it.