{"id":269511,"date":"2026-05-13T14:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269511\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:40:28","slug":"florida-basketball-to-face-in-state-foe-in-tampa-to-open-2026-27-season-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269511\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida basketball to face in-state foe in Tampa to open 2026-27 season, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida basketball will open its season against Miami in Tampa, Florida, according to a report from CBS Sports\u2019 Jon Rothstein. The matchup is set for November 2 \u2014 though there has been no official announcement from either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/college-football\/teams\/florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Florida<\/a> or Miami. <\/p>\n<p>This is the second straight year that the Gators and Hurricanes will face off on the hardwood. Florida beat Miami soundly last season on November 16, with Rueben Chinyelu dominating the paint in a 16-point, 10-rebound and 2-block performance. Florida won, 82-68. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEWS: Florida and Miami will meet in a neutral site game in Tampa on November 2nd to open the 2026-27 college basketball season, according to a source.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kp9m13VCbK\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/kp9m13VCbK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRothstein\/status\/2054326117142569297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Miami, like many teams in college basketball these days, is going to look quite different next year. Florida, for the most part, will not. <\/p>\n<p>The Gators are set to return Thomas Haugh, Alex Condon, Boogie Fland, Urban Klavzar, Isaiah Brown and CJ Ingram, as well as potentially Chinyelu. On top of that, Florida is getting Denzel Aberdeen back in Gainesville after he took one season to play for Mark Pope and Kentucky. <\/p>\n<p>As for Miami, a good part of the Hurricanes\u2019 roster will not be returning. Malik Reneau and Tre Donaldson are out of eligibility and Tru Washington, Noam Dovrat and Ernest Udeh opted to enter the transfer portal. Incoming transfers Somto Cyril (Georgia), Acaden Lewis (Villanova) and Nick Dorn (Indiana) should help supplement head coach Jai Lucas\u2019 roster around returners Shelton Henderson and Dante Allen, though. <\/p>\n<p>:\n<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rounded-full mx-auto sm:m-0 grayscale aspect-square perfmatters-lazy\" alt=\"Ethan Stone\" width=\"88\" height=\"88\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a0f6656877824f293a34bc7fbc1724efd9248ccfd9c8171c9050420803b9cfe9.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm mt-4\">Ethan Stone is a Tennessee graduate and loves all things college football and college basketball. Firm believer in fouling while up 3.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida basketball will open its season against Miami in Tampa, Florida, according to a report from CBS Sports\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-269511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269511","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=269511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}