This year's pre-season Top 25's have a little more meaning to Florida Gators basketball than recent years.
In every offseason, college basketball fans and writers alike try their hardest to predict and fantasize about which teams will fall inside the top 25 to begin the year.fans, these lists may have been of lesser value to them in recent memory considering their success, or lack thereof, in basketball over the years.Once the articles started popping up about the “way-to-early top 25,” there became a noticeable difference. This time, the Florida Gators were on them.
Across three recognized outlets of ESPN, CBS Sports and Fox Sports, Florida’s average placing rounded out at 16th.“Florida struck gold in the portal last spring and has already reeled in three transfers this year. The Gators also have All-American candidate, and one of the nation's top scorers, Walter Clayton Jr. -- if he decides to withdraw from the NBA draft -- and Will Richard is a double-figure scorer,” wrote Borzello on why he has them that high.
Alex Condon, Thomas Haugh and Denzel Aberdeen are guaranteed to return and then predicting that most likely Clayton Jr. and Richard will return to school as well.who they brought into the program in the spring transfer windowIn this window, they signed Martin, an instant-impact starting guard and leader from the FAU Owls team that went to the Final Four two years ago.
Alexis, the starting forward from Chattanooga who made third-team All-Southern Conference and All-Defensive teams last year. Finally, Rueben Chinyelu, a young center from Washington State who is highly rated defensively to help bolster a team that severely lacked defense all last season and to mitigate the
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