Florida women’s basketball coach Amanda Butler has been instructing her players to “love the ball.”
Protecting the basketball has been an issue for her program all season, with its 282 turnovers leading the Southeastern Conference by a landslide.
And when the Gators took the court against Auburn on Sunday in their first SEC battle of the new year, a suffocating full-court press from the Tigers forced 26 UF turnovers.
Butler knows her team’s inconsistency at seeing possessions all the way through dampens its chances of being successful in conference play, and it’s become a focal point in her practices recently.