{"id":402608,"date":"2026-09-17T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402608\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:52:08","slug":"florida-to-host-exhibition-game-against-stetson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402608\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida to host exhibition game against Stetson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida men\u2019s basketball will host Stetson in an exhibition game on Oct. 27, with tipoff set for 7 p.m., per release.<\/p>\n

The contest will take place at the Stephen C. O\u2019Connell Center and will stream on SEC+ with a radio broadcast from the Gators Sports Network.<\/p>\n

Season ticket holders will have priority access to claim complementary tickets to the game, while the general public will have to wait for a later date to secure their spot for the contest.<\/p>\n

The Hatters are coming off a 12-21 (7-11 ASUN) season and are entering their eight season under head coach Donnie Jones.<\/p>\n

This meeting will be Florida\u2019s second exhibition game ahead of the 2026-27 season as the Gators travel to Jacksonville on Oct. 18 to face Baylor.<\/p>\n

The Gators have an all-time 55-14 record against Stetson, including 20 straight victories dating back to 1984.<\/p>\n

The two last met during the 2024-25 season as UF cruised to an 85-45 win at home. Alijah Martin led the Gators with 18 points, followed by Will Richard with 17 and Walter Clayton Jr. with 12.<\/p>\n

The two exhibition games will help the Gators prepare for a 2026-27 campaign in which they are expected to be the pre-season No. 1 team in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Florida will kick off its regular season in Tampa against Miami on Nov. 2<\/p>\n

Contact Jeffrey Serber at Jserber@alligator.org. Follow him on X @JeffreySerber.<\/p>\n

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Jeffrey Serber<\/p>\n

Jeffrey is the Fall 2026 men’s basketball reporter and a third-year journalism sports & media major with a media, management and production minor. In his free time, he enjoys hanging out with friends and family and rooting for the Miami sports teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida men\u2019s basketball will host Stetson in an exhibition game on Oct. 27, with tipoff set for 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-402608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402608","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=402608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}