The primary plot of Florida’s men’s basketball team meeting with Ohio in Tampa on this Wednesday night (7 p.m., ESPN2) is obvious: The Gators are recovering from a thumping by UConn a week ago, and probably need to win games like this one to prevent a non-conference schedule marred by losses to NCAA Tournament aspirants from becoming one with those losses and one to a likely Tourney exclusion.
The subplots, of playing in Tampa and against yet another team of stellar shooters, may be more interesting.
For Florida, this experience of playing a regular-season game in Tampa for the first time in six years seems probable to have been better experienced by a better team.