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00:00Florida Gators, one of the best teams in the country.
00:01You could argue maybe the hottest team in the country
00:03coming into the tournament.
00:05Easily dispatching of opponents here,
00:06playing great basketball.
00:08And yesterday, same exact story, Joe.
00:1087-71, Maryland Terrapins.
00:12The Crab Five season ends on a 16-point loss,
00:173,000 miles away from home.
00:19But I gotta tell you here,
00:20like I'm looking forward to the Dogs covering.
00:23Two yesterday covered, two lost yesterday.
00:25This game, 40-38 the break.
00:27You thought it'd be close,
00:28but the Florida Gators hit that gas pedal
00:30in the second half to a 47-33 tune,
00:33enough for that easy victory over the Maryland Terrapins.
00:36We'll get to the coaching
00:37in just a little bit of what we think,
00:38but your initial thoughts for the Florida Gators
00:40moving on once again.
00:43Very, very Florida Gator-like.
00:46There's two teams that remain in this tournament
00:49that have the kind of depth that's scary,
00:53where your All-American players can have off games
00:57and you don't have to worry that people won't step up
01:01and come in off the bench and get the job done.
01:04Michigan State, who we'll see tonight,
01:06is one of those teams that can go 10 deep.
01:09And Florida's the other, who can go nine, 10 deep.
01:12And I mean, listen, their All-American guard,
01:15the leader of this team,
01:17was nowhere to be found last night in that game.
01:20And that might be the scariest part
01:22of anybody having to face them,
01:23given that they brought guys off the bench.
01:26The Bigs had a huge night there
01:28and they basically won the game in that second half.
01:32Very workmanlike.
01:33They play defense when they need.
01:35They've been tested already with UConn, right?
01:39So if they didn't turn the ball over 20 times
01:43in the first half, Donnie,
01:44they'd have won this game by 30 points.
01:46It wouldn't have even been close,
01:48but they kept turning the ball over for no good reason.
01:52Not because Maryland was playing great defense.
01:54It kept throwing the ball over the heads of their own guys.
01:58So all in all, they figured it out in the second half.
02:02It just, it's too much when you have nine, 10 guys
02:05on a bench and any one of them, Donnie,
02:08can beat you on any given night.
02:10That is tough to overcome in these kinds of situations.