It's been three years. Three long years of frustration for Florida Gator fans. Three years of frustrating losses and late season collapses have kept the Gators from going back to the NCAA Tournament. Well, here we are again.

Saturday in Oxford, at times in spite of themselves, Florida got a huge win over Ole Miss. Vernon Macklin was huge. He scored a career high 22 points and virtually was unstoppable in the paint.

However the Gators were terrible from the outside. Dan Werner hit the only three-point shot of the day for Florida with roughly five minutes left. Color analyst Mike Gminski stated that UF was "chipping a lot of paint off the front of the rim."

Three times this year Florida has played a Thursday night game...

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