***NCAA Tournament*** Florida vs Virginia

[LeeForThree]

Florida takes on Virginia at approximately 8:40 PM EST on TNT Saturday night. This is going to be our toughest test of the tournament at least for our offense. Virginia has the nation's best ranked defense and we have to come out making shots, pushing our pace, making shots, rebounding, and making shots. We will have to have great games from Allen and Barry to win this one and hopefully Robinson looks like he did yesterday.

Prediction:

Florida- 71
Virginia- 61
POG- Barry

 

[TheBigClaw]

Gators will win a very low scoring affair.

 

[MidwestChomp]

I do not have a good feeling about this one, but obviously I hope I'm wrong. I think this is going to be a defensive chess match and a grinder.

 

[GatorJ]

UF 61
UVA 55

 

[InstiGATOR1]

I see it more like

UF 66
UVa 56

POG: Reprising Casey Prather Keith Stone hits an early 3 or two and leads UF to the win.

 

[Gator Fever]

I like they will have a shorter lineup in there much of the game. That should help us some.

 

[Durty South Swamp]

Maybe this one should be stickied and the east tennessee one unstickied... maybe?

 

[NVGator]

Maybe this one should be stickied and the east tennessee one unstickied... maybe?

Nah?

 

[Swamped Gator]

Looks like Virginia will be without their leading rebounder and shot blocker Isaiah Wilkins. He also leads the team in steals.

 

[Swamped Gator]

He barely played in the opener as well.

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

We got this.

 

[GatorBart]

O/U somewhere around 120?

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

O/U somewhere around 120?

126.

 

[GatorBart]

126.

Seems high.

 

[InstiGATOR1]

O/U somewhere around 120?

It opened around 128 and fell to 126ish apparently.

 

[ChiefGator]

Not having one of your better players should hurt them, we need much better half court play since you can't expect to get so many easy shots. Barry being back to his earlier form would really help.

 

[CGgater]

I do not have a good feeling about this one, but obviously I hope I'm wrong. I think this is going to be a defensive chess match and a grinder.

I'm not feeling it either, but I get nervous even when playing Manhattan, so...

 

[InstiGATOR1]

Not having one of your better players should hurt them, we need much better half court play since you can't expect to get so many easy shots. Barry being back to his earlier form would really help.

Allen having a decent shooting night would help too. UNC-Wilmington out rebounded UVA by 7 on Thursday so UF needs to take care of the boards too.

 

[ChiefGator]

Allen having a decent shooting night would help too. UNC-Wilmington out rebounded UVA by 7 on Thursday so UF needs to take care of the boards too.

Yes it is a team game and if say three of our better players got hot at the same time it would be a sure victory. I would be very happy if at the end of the game we could clear the bench. We have not been able to do that enough. Getting all the players the experience would be great.

 

[GatorBart]

It opened around 128 and fell to 124ish apparently.

I'm seeing 127 with the Gators favored by 1 (-1). But I can't access Vegas Insider at work to see the current listing, but low 120s I think would be about right. Those rims seemed tight on Thursday and the pressure's going to be amped up to entirely different level, with two of the best defenses in the country going at it. I'd be very surprised if either team breaks 70, and if one does, I'd expect it to be us since we average 78 per game and they only average 66. UVA averages 56 points against, while we average 66 points against, what they normally score. Let's say UVA gets their average of 66 (which is also the average we give up) and UVA keeps us under our scoring average, about half way between what we average per game and what they give up per game. We win 67-66. Book it and take the over.