MBB OGT: NCAA Tournament FINAL FOUR -- (1) Auburn vs (1) FLORIDA --April 5, 2025 -- 6:09 PM [CBS]

By OklahomaGator: The Gators seek to do tonight at the Alamodome what they did 56 days ago at Neville Arena on the Auburn campus: beat the Tigers. If the Gators can pull it off, they will play the Houston-Duke winner on Monday night for a chance to win the program's third national championship.

On Feb. 8, Florida knocked off then-No. 1 Auburn, 90-81, behind an excellent game from All-American guard Walter Clayton Jr., who scored 19 points with six rebounds and nine assists. The Gators won to snap Auburn's 14-game winning streak despite being without injured guard Alijah Martin.

[Read colleague Chris Harry's comprehensive "Pregame Stuff" preview here]

The rematch has been a prominent subject this week every time UF coach Todd Golden and Auburn's Bruce Pearl stepped up to a microphone.

"Good thing is we only have to beat them one more time," Golden said Friday. "Our teams know each other really well at this point. We are going to show these guys [his players] what we call our keys in personnel probably three more times before the ball goes in the air. I would venture to guess [they] could tell you, player by player, right now the tendencies that each of these Auburn players have, what they like to run, whether it is out of bounds, half-court, on the sidelines."

 

By OklahomaGator: ETGator usually does this thread and he is out of town coaching and isn't able to add all his usual posts.

 

Thanks for getting the OGT started OklahomaGator! I'm back now and added some pictures for the big game . . .