{"id":151811,"date":"2026-02-11T17:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/151811\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:23:08","slug":"florida-mens-basketball-seeks-season-series-against-georgia-wruf-98-1-fm-850-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/151811\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Men’s Basketball Seeks Season Series Against Georgia – WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 14<\/a> Florida men\u2019s basketball hits the road to Athens, Ga., on Wednesday night to take on the Bulldogs in a rematch of a SEC Showdown. The Gators defeated Georgia 92-77 in the O\u2019Connell Center in their SEC home opener Jan. 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That matchup was a physical battle. The Gators struggled in the first half, but came back and were able to hold the Bulldogs to 34% shooting from the field in the second half.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Rowdy Reptiles helped fuel the Gators\u2019 momentum in the second half, ignited by 20 dunks from the Gators compared to just two for Georgia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Florida (17-6, 8-2 SEC) took down Texas A&M (17-6, 7-3) 86-67 on Saturday night in College Station and zoomed to the lead in the SEC standings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Florida\u2019s offense found its rhythm against the Aggies by shooting 48.7% from the field and scoring 32 points in the paint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Gators play at the Stegeman Coliseum at 7 p.m., as they look for redemption against the Bulldogs (17-6, 5-5) on the road. Florida fell short in Athens last year 88-83.<\/p>\n

Florida is looking for its 15th victory out in its last 16 meetings with Georgia. This series dates to 1926 with the Gators holding a 126-101 all-time advantage. Florida struggles in Athens, sitting at 51-62.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tip off is at 7 p.m. on ESPN2 and coverage on 98.1-FM\/AM-850 WRUF<\/a> starts at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Category: Basketball<\/a>, College Basketball<\/a>, Gators Men’s Basketball<\/a>, SEC<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 14 Florida men\u2019s basketball hits the road to Athens, Ga., on Wednesday night to take on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,2530,30,29,4669,73249,23468],"class_list":{"0":"post-151811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-gators","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-georgia-bulldogs","13":"tag-ncaa-mens-basketball","14":"tag-sec-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}