Gators fold late, lose to Georgia at home

Zada Williams

Samantha Harrison / Alligator Staff In college basketball, one week is a long time.

Florida’s women’s basketball team dropped a heartbreaker to Georgia by a score of 49-43 despite coming off of its biggest win of the year last week against Kentucky. It was Florida’s second-lowest scoring total on the season on Saturday at the O’Connell Center. Foul trouble, lack of shooting and turnovers did the Gators in.

Three things above all else cost UF in this one: turnovers, poor scoring efforts from guards Lavender Briggs and Kiara Smith and foul trouble for forward Zada Williams.

Briggs and Smith finished the game combining for just 10 points despite averaging a combined 26.7 points per…