Florida vs. Stony Brook, Game Thread: Will the Golden Era get a winning start?

The Florida Gators men’s basketball program is all-in on calling Todd Golden’s tenure as head coach the Golden Era. (There are even t-shirts!) And as the first look at the new-look Gators Golden has assembled comes this Monday night against Stony Brook, even I — perhaps the Internet’s staunchest defender of Mike White’s oft-lamented tenure in Gainesville — am hopeful that Florida’s future has a lot more high seeds than bubble sweats when it comes to the SEC and NCAA Tournaments.

But pun aside, whether Golden and his staff will be able to achieve an actual golden era is something that will take quite some time to evaluate — and if White was unfairly judged against the towering accomplishments…