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The Florida Gators will again enter the NCAA tournament from 2025 on the College Basketball World. The question that remains is whether they will complete March Madness by reducing the networks as the last team.
For the first time since 2014 and for the third time in the program history, Florida deserved a seed number 1 in the NCAA tournament. The Gators will be the top team in the West region, since the program is to return to the last four as decade after the last appearance.
Uf begins on Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina, against No. 16-Samen Norfolk State.
The top seeds in the West region behind Florida are number 2 of St. John's, No. 3 Texas Tech and No. 4 Maryland. Should UF come out of his first game, his matchup would come in the second round against Uconn No. 8 or No. 9 Oklahoma.
The Gators locked No. 1 for 2025 March Madness in view of their enormous level of play in the SEC, which was the hardest conference of the nation this season. Uf ended a game behind Auburn in the regular seasonal competition before stipulating the 2025 SEC tournament championship on Sunday.
Florida is disappointing 45-20 of all time in the NCAA tournament with last year's appearance when UF fell to Colorado in the first round. The average of a number of eight rounds of 32 appearances (2011-14, 2017-19, 2021) when Florida made the field in 2022-23 in 2015-16 and the event was not played in 2020.
The Gators last reached the last four in 2014. In fact, as a No. 1 seed with a 2-0 qualification for the national semi-finals with a national championship victory in 2007. Florida is looking for its sixth final Four appearance (1994, 2000, 2006-07, 2014) and the third national championship (2006-07) in the program history.
Last season, Todd Golden was the second head coach of Gator, who deserved a berth of the NCAA tournament in his first two seasons that the team led. Golden is now one of Billy Donovan as one of two coaches who lead Florida in March Madness to a seed number 1.
