Aggressiveness paying off for UF women’s basketball

Simone WestbrookWhen a coach has to bring a team’s competitiveness down a notch for fear of players hurting each other, that team is probably doing something right.

And in the lead-up to Sunday’s win against No. 12 Kentucky, that’s exactly what women’s basketball coach Amanda Butler and her staff had to do.

"At practice on Saturday… they were going at it so hard that we really had to kinda pull back the reins and go ‘guys, this is awesome effort, but let’s not kill each other before the game tomorrow,’" Butler said.

All season, Florida’s aggression and competitiveness have shown through not just in practice, but in games.

In Sunday’s bout with UK, Florida demonstrated those qualities by forcing…