Florida’s defense this season hasn’t been what we’ve come to expect from Mike White team’s make no mistake about it. While the team has improved on their own end over the last couple of weeks, punctuated by a suffocating performance against a sneakily good scoring Georgia team, they are still only 54th in KenPom’s adjusted defensive efficiency metric, a far cry from the top-25 rankings the team has achieved in White’s first four seasons.
When you look at this team’s defense and how they are different to the past seasons where the Gators were excellent defensively there are a few things that stand out.