For the second time in as many weeks, the Florida Gators couldn’t solve Vanderbilt — lowly Vanderbilt, sitting under .500 for the year and worse than that in SEC play.
The Gators trailed 12-0 and 16-2, and trailed at halftime — by nine — despite tying the game in the second quarter. Entering the fourth quarter, they had an 11-point deficit to erase if they wanted to play another game in the 2022 SEC Tournament.
And that was all before they lost Kiki Smith.
But what Florida also did was never stop fighting.