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Florida 66, Kentucky 64: Gators stagger away from a rock fight with a win

When ESPN analyst Jay Bilas said that, in the past, observers would call games like the one that happened on Saturday night between the Florida Gators and Kentucky Wildcats a “rock fight,” he was wrong.

He was understating it.

But the way Florida won that game — by a 66-64 count, after bricking a free throw, after allowing the third and fourth threes of Kentucky’s evening in the 40th minute of play — proves these Gators can get ugly and get dubs.

Florida’s own shooting from deep, on a 6-for-30 night, was worse than Kentucky’s.