Potent Zone Offense Won’t Be Enough For Gators In Man-Heavy SEC

Florida Gators point guard Andrew Nembhard handles the ball against Michigan State - GatorCountry photo taken by David BowieYou might not think anything Florida has done offensively could be classified as amazing or excellent or any positive adjective like that but there is actually an element of scoring the ball the Gators have done with quality.

Attack zone defenses.

Florida hasn’t seen a ton of zone this year and there is actually a good reason why—they have torched zone defenses whenever an opponent has tried to roll them out.

The Gators are shooting 55.3% when facing zone and putting up a ridiculous 1.311 points per possessions.

Contrast that with their offense against man defense where…