This is a crucial week for the Gators basketball team. After starting conference play 0-3, they picked up their first win at South Carolina on Saturday. They’ll host a pair of middling teams this week in Mississippi State and Vanderbilt.
Then, they’ll have an extraordinarily tough stretch of games next week. They’ll play their rescheduled game at Ole Miss and then play at No. 24 Tennessee less than 48 hours apart. They’ll then return home and play Oklahoma State in the SEC-Big 12 Challenge.
If they take care of business against Mississippi State and Vanderbilt this week, they’ll enter that gauntlet with momentum and a chance to pad their postseason resume.