The Florida Gators women’s basketball team had its best season in more than half a decade in 2021-22, emerging from the tenure of a coach whose alleged abuses made his time at the reins in Gainesville sound more like a reign of petty terrors to win 20 games, slay several ranked foes, and generate enough goodwill for interim head coach Kelly Rae Finley to get her interim tag removed.
Their reward for all that? A mere No. 10 seed in the 2022 NCAA Tournament, a date with in-state foe UCF in the first round, and the looming threat of playing a resurgent and hungry UConn team on its home floor for the second time in just three March Madness trips.