After years of groaning about an increasingly glacial tempo, the Florida Gators men of the hardwood are playing the sort of fast-paced basketball that helped propel Billy Donovan’s Gators to their initial fame and relevance in the “Billyball” era and was a significant selling point when Mike White was hired from Louisiana Tech to replace Donovan in 2015.
What they haven’t done this season, at least as of yet, is knock off a clearly NCAA Tournament-caliber foe at this new pace of play.
Enter the LSU Tigers, and Florida’s first Saturday showdown (2 p.