Six games remain in the regular season for the Gators’ men’s basketball team.
Six more opportunities to prove its worth to a committee of people tasked with choosing which 68 of the more than 350 Division I college basketball teams deserve to make the NCAA Tournament.
The idea that Florida still stands a chance of being one of those 68 programs eludes most UF fans. But in their 71-53 takedown of Alabama, a likely tournament team that beat now-No. 5 Kentucky on Jan. 5, the Gators showed that they are still very much in the race for a slot in March Madness.