As the ninth-seeded Gators prepare to battle eighth-seeded Texas A&M in the second round of the SEC Tournament in Tampa on Thursday, they find themselves in the direst set of circumstances of the Mike White era.
UF is 19-12 overall and 9-9 in conference play, and they’re just 2-8 in what the NCAA refers to as Quadrant 1 games. They sit at just No. 54 in the NCAA Evaluation Tool rankings. That’s a light postseason resume, and that’s reflected in the projected NCAA Tournament brackets of several prominent bracketologists.
CBS’ Jerry Palm has the Gators among the first four teams outside of the field, while ESPN’s Joe Lunardi has them even lower than that as one of the next four teams out.