What to make of Florida basketball these days is an exercise in trying to forget what the program was 10 years ago and what Billy Donovan built in Gainesville. For 20 years, Donovan roamed the sidelines, won multiple National Championships, finished in the KenPom top 10 eight times and in the top 25 thirteen times, and in the final AP poll twelve times. That’s an elite run.
It’s really hard to sustain that level of success, though, and Mike White hasn’t. Where Donovan had the program at an elite level, Florida has been merely good under White. Good is certainly better than the alternative, and White hasn’t come close to cratering the program.