#14/12 Florida vs. Oklahoma Lloyd Norman, Okla Dec. 1, 2021 | 8 p.m. ET

#14/12 Florida (6-0/0-0 SEC) vs. Oklahoma (6-1/0-0 Big 12)Lloyd Noble Center (11,562) | Norman, Okla.
Game 7 | Dec. 1, 2021 | 8 p.m. ET

BROADCAST INFO
Bally Sports Sun (No./Cent. Fla.)
Bally Sports Florida (So. Fla.)
Play-by-Play: Chad McKee
Analyst: Bryndon Manzer

Gators Sports Network
Play-by-Play: Mick Hubert
Analyst: Lee Humphrey

 

HEAD COACHES
Mike White
129-75 | 7th season at UF
230-115 | 11th season overall

Porter Moser
6-1 | 1st season at Oklahoma
299-243 | 18th season overall

MATCHUP BASICS
All-Time Series: 2-1
All-Time on the Road: 1-0
Under White: 1-1
All-Time vs. Big 12: 25-18
vs. Big 12 under White: 6-4
Last Meeting: L, 60-65, 11/21/18 (Bahamas

 

FLORIDA POSSIBLE STARTERS# Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Cl. Min. Pts. Reb. Misc.
4 Anthony Duruji F 6-7 220 Sr.* 26.9 10.2 4.8 1.2 stl
12 Colin Castleton F 6-11 231 Sr.* 27.1 14.8 10.0 2.8 blk
0 Myreon Jones G 6-3 175 Sr.* 30.0 11.8 3.8 2.5 3fg
22 Tyree Appleby G 6-1 163 Sr.* 27.2 11.3 2.7 3.2 ast
24 Phlandrous Fleming Jr. G 6-5 205 Gr. 22.5 11.0 3.2 1.3 ast
*Eligible to apply for an additional season due to COVID-19.

OPPONENT POSSIBLE STARTERS# Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Cl. Min. Pts. Reb. Misc.
1 Jalen Hill F 6-6 218 Jr. 27.3 8.6 6.7 2.0 ast
35 Tanner Groves F 6-10 235 Sr. 24.3 14.6 6.3 2.1 ast
0 Jordan Goldwire G 6-3 194 RSr. 28.1 9.9 2.1 4.3 ast
2 Umoja Gibson G 6-1 169 Sr. 28.1 11.3 1.4 2.3 3fg
55 Elijah Harkless G 6-3 194 Sr. 28.0 8.3 5.1 2.9 ast

 

NUMBERS OF NOTE

3
The Gators have rolled up double-
digit steals in three straight games,
the first such stretch by the Florida
defense since a trio of games Dec. 28,
2009-Jan. 3, 2010.

5
Florida is aiming for a 7-0 start, some-
thing the Gators have done just five
times previously in program history,
most recently in the 2012-13 season.

86.1%
Florida’s six seniors and graduates
account for 86.1% of the team’s
scoring to date, a year after having
no seniors or graduates on the team.
Five of those six are averaging double
figures and the sixth, Brandon McKissic,
has been a defensive spark plug
with a team-leading 11 steals

 

2021-22 AT A GLANCE
• Florida enters Sunday’s showdown at Oklahoma with an unblemished 6-0 mark, looking to push its record to
7-0 for the sixth time in program history and the first since 2012-13. The Gators’ AP #14 rank marks the team’s highest since opening the 2019-20 season with a #6 ranking.

• The Gators have won two of three all-time aganist Oklahoma, including the lone contest in Norman, an 84-52 victory in the Jan. 2017 SEC/Big 12 Challenge.

• UF’s defense has made its presence felt in the early going, limiting fi ve of its fi rst opponents to 61 points or fewer. The Gators have held two opponents to 45 points, the first time Florida has multiple opponents to 45
points or fewer in a season since 2014-15.

• Florida leads the SEC in 3-point field goal percentage defense at .250, while the teams’ 55.7 points allowed and 6.0 blocked shots rank second in the SEC.

• Florida battled back from a double-digit deficit to knock off Ohio State on Tyree Appleby’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer to win the Fort Myers Tip-Off . Phlandrous Fleming led the Florida attack with 19 points and four steals, supported by Colin Castleton’s double-double with 11 points and 13 rebounds.

• The Gators rode a strong late-first half performance to victory against Cal, outscoring the Bears 29-10 over the final 8:10 of the opening frame. Four Gators scored in double figures, led by Colin Castleton’s 16 and Tyree
Appleby’s 15.

• The Gators used a 13-0 second-half run to spark the win against 20th-ranked FSU, and Colin Castleton earned SEC Player of the Week honors with a 15-point, 16-rebound, six-blocked shot performance.

• After playing with no seniors on their roster last season, the Gators have six senior or graduate players on the active roster this season.

• The Gators are one of six teams nationally with a win in each of the past four tournaments and the only South-
eastern Conference team to reach every NCAA Tournament in that span (since 2017).

• The Gators added a quartet of veteran impact transfers who have a combined 3,882 career points scored at their previous schools. Florida’s 2021 class of incoming transfers rates in the nation’s top two in career points
(Arkansas, 4,125 points, 6 players).

• Guards Brandon McKissic (UMKC) and Phlandrous Fleming Jr. (Charleston Southern) both bring conference defensive player of the year and first-team all-conference credentials to Gainesville as graduate transfers.

• The Gators also added a pair of undergrad transfers in senior guard Myreon Jones (Penn State) and junior forward CJ Felder (Boston College). Jones led the Nittany Lions in scoring last season with 15.3 points per game and averaged 2.4 3-pointers made, while Felder posted 9.7 points and 5.9 rebounds per game last season.

• UF also brings in two freshmen guards in ESPN Top 100 prospect Kowacie Reeves (Macon, Ga.) and pure-shooting lefty Elijah Kennedy (Virginia Beach, Va.), along with junior college transfer Tuongthach Gatkek.

• The Gators will play at least 10 games against preseason AP top 25 opponents this season, including nonconference battles vs. Florida State, Ohio State, and Maryland.

 

ABOUT THE OPPONENT
• Oklahoma enters with a 6-1 record under first-year head coach Porter
Moser, coming off its best win of the season, a road victory at UCF.

• Tanner Groves leads the Sooners with 14.6 points per game, with
Umoja Gibson (11.3) also averaging double figures behind a team-
high 16 made 3-pointers.

• Jordan Goldwire leads with 30 assists, while Jalen Hill has team highs
in rebounding (6.7), steals (10) and blocked shots (seven).

OPPONENT’S LAST 5 GAMES
Nov. 18 vs. East Carolina W 79-74
Nov. 19 vs. Indiana State W 87-63
Nov. 21 vs. Utah State L 70-73
Nov. 24 Houston Baptist W 57-40
Nov. 27 at UCF W 65-62

OPPONENT’S NEXT 5 GAMES
Dec. 7 Butler
Dec. 11 vs. Arkansas
Dec. 19 UT Arlington
Dec. 22 Alcorn State
Jan. 1 Kansas State

ALL-TIME SERIES (2-1)
Dec. 30, 1995 N W/OT 76-72
Jan. 28, 2017 A W 84-52
Nov. 21, 2018 N L 60-65

 

VS. BIG 12 UNDER WHITE (6-4)
Dec. 19, 2015 vs. Oklahoma State (Sunrise) W 72-70
Jan. 30, 2016 #9 West Virginia W 88-71
Jan. 28, 2017 at Oklahoma W 84-52
Jan. 27, 2018 Baylor W 81-60
March 17, 2018 *vs. #14 Texas Tech (Dallas) L 66-69
Nov. 21, 2018 vs. Oklahoma (Bahamas) L 60-65
Dec. 4, 2018 vs. West Virginia (NYC) W 66-56
Jan. 26, 2019 at TCU L 50-55
Jan. 25, 2020 #1 Baylor L 61-72
Jan. 30, 2021 at #11 West Virginia W 85-80
*NCAA Tournamen