Even though 2025 wasn’t a great year for Florida Gators football, there were still plenty of success stories across all sports in Gainesville. Lacrosse made the Final Four, softball made the WCWS, women’s cross country was 5th at nationals, and men’s basketball won it all in April and won the third national title in program history.
Given it is Christmas and Santa spent the night deciding who was naughty and who was nice, these are the Gators we would have to imagine Santa thought were nice in 2025.
Walter Clayton Jr. - Men’s Basketball
The run men’s basketball had through the NCAA Tournament is one of those runs that probably couldn’t be repeated again if given 100 tries.