Florida women take down LSU for fifth straight win: What happened in the O’Dome on Saturday, when Florida’s men’s basketball team put their clamps on Vanderbilt, turned out to just be the weekend’s prologue — on Sunday, the Gators women had bigger prey to chomp, and did so.
Florida’s see-sawing 73-72 win over No. 11 LSU — in a game that the Gators never led by more than nine points and never trailed in by more than five points — was their second straight over a ranked team, and third over a ranked team in a five-game winning streak that has turned what looked like a season in which the Gators might once again fight for and fail to garner NCAA Tournament consideration into one that could see them contend to be one of the SEC’s best teams.