Gators Return Home Wednesday to Face Prairie View A&M

Prairie View A&M vs. Florida
Game Information: Nov. 30 | 5:30 p.m. ET 
Live Stream: SEC Network+
Radio: 98.1FM/850AM WRUF
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Game Notes: Media Center
 
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida ladies’s basketball will return house on Wednesday, Nov. 30, to faceoff with Prairie View A&M at 5:30 p.m. ET inside Exactech Arena on the Stephen C. O’Connell.
 
Wednesday’s recreation, which serves as the primary a part of a doubleheader with the lads’s crew, will stream dwell on SEC Network+ with Kyle Crooks and Brittany Davis on the decision. Tom Collett and Kelly Davis will deal with radio duties on 98.1FM/850AM WRUF.
 
THE SERIES
The Gators overcame a six-point deficit with 1:45 left in regulation to power extra time and defeat Houston, 77-73, on the St. Pete Showcase. Leilani Correa posted 24 factors and eight rebounds whereas KK Deans added 19 factors and Jeriah Warren pulled-down a career-best 10 rebounds.
 
NONCONFERENCE DOMINANCE
Dating again to the 2019-20 season, Florida is within the midst of a 19-game house profitable streak throughout nonconference competitors, the third-longest streak in program historical past. The final loss for the Gators within the nonconference got here on Nov. 26, 2019, when Florida State gained in Gainesville, 66-55.
 
ST. PETE SHOWCASE
The Gators completed the St. Pete Showcase with an ideal 2-0 mark after defeating Green Bay and Houston over the Thanksgiving vacation. Their wins marked their first preseason event outing that led to perfection since profitable the Gator Holiday Classic in 2015-16. After averaging 22 factors and 6 rebounds throughout the event, as well as to enjoying hero ball within the remaining seconds of regulation towards Houston, Leilani Correa was named to the St. Pete Showcase All-Star crew.
 
COUNTDOWN TO 800
Florida ladies’s basketball is closing in on their 800th victory as a program, at present holding 794 throughout their 49-year historical past. When the Gators accomplish the feat, they would be the thirteenth SEC to cross the 800-win threshold, with Mississippi State additionally chasing the accomplishment, proudly owning 775 victories as a program getting into the 2022-23 season.
 
KK’S 1K
Florida senior guard, KK Deans, is closing in on her 1,000th profession level. The West Virginia switch recorded 788 factors with the Mountaineers and at present holds 90 factors on the season with the Gators, pushing her profession complete to 878. She can be the second 1,000-point scorer on the roster, as Leilani Correa scored 1,272 factors in her three seasons at St. John’s
 
60: THE MAGIC NUMBER
Under the management of Kelly Rae Finley, Florida’s protection will all the time be a degree of emphasis. Helping to show that time, the Gators personal an ideal 17-0 mark beneath Finely when holding opponents to 60 factors or much less.
 
‘CHOMP DOWN’ DEFENSE

The Orange & Blue have made their defensive identification a key component to the 2022-23 season. Following six video games, the Gators are second within the SEC in turnovers compelled per recreation, forcing a median of 24.14, which is nice for twentieth nationally as properly. They have additionally compelled 20 or extra turnovers in 5 of their first seven video games of the season. The Gators are additionally second within the SEC with 12.3 steals per recreation, additionally twenty fourth within the nation.
 
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