By: Eric Fawcett -- January 8, 2022 After landing their first SEC win of the season against Georgia the Florida Gators (8-7, 1-2 SEC) will head to Baton Rouge to take on the LSU Tigers (12-3, 1-2 SEC). It’s early in the season to talk about league standings and the implication of individual games but the Tigers and Gators are two of five teams that currently sit at 1-2, and with both teams projected to finish in about the same range of the league, games like these can be major differentiators. Florida Versus LSU Basketball Preview | GatorCountry.com
Highly-sought coaches Matt McMahon, Todd Golden to meet again when LSU hosts UF BY SHELDON MICKLES | ADVOCATE STAFF WRITER PUBLISHED JAN 9, 2023 AT 5:17 PM | UPDATED JAN 9, 2023 AT 10:55 PM Last winter, amid the March Madness hoopla that grips the college basketball world, Murray State’s Matt McMahon and San Francisco’s Todd Golden were two of the hottest young coaching candidates in the nation.Coincidentally, they were paired up in an NCAA tournament first-round game in Indianapolis with McMahon’s 30-win team facing Golden's team that had won 24 games. For weeks, their names were floated in almost every story involving a coaching vacancy or anticipated job opening at myriad Power Five institutions. Their clubs hooked up in a thriller on March 17 with No. 7 seed Murray State moving on with a 92-87 overtime win over 10th-seeded San Francisco. The back-and-forth battle featured 18 lead changes and 14 ties before Murray finally prevailed. The next day, Golden, then 36, was named Florida’s head coach; three days later, the then 43-year-old McMahon accepted an offer from LSU — filling two of the Southeastern Conference’s five head coaching openings. Their paths will cross again at 6 p.m. Tuesday full write up at: Highly-sought coaches Matt McMahon, Todd Golden to meet again when LSU hosts UF
