Condon helps No. 5 Florida Top No. 7 Alabama 99-94 in the key sec-matchup

Alex Condon had 27 points and 10 rebounds to lead to a 99-94 victory against Alabama No. 7 on Wednesday evening No. 5.

The Gators (26-4, 13-4 Southeasters Conference) also received 22 points and eight assists from Walter Clayton Jr. Florida strengthened his NCAA tournament resume with a second street victory against a top 10 team after defeating No. 1 Auburn this season. It is the first time in the program history that the Gators did it twice in one season.

Mark Sears led Alabama (23-7, 12-5) with 30 points, six rebounds and five assists. Alabama also received 19 points from Labaron Philon, 11 from Clifford Omoruyi and 10 points from Grant Nelson and Aiden Sherrell.

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Florida: Sieg could bring the Gator to Tennessee in the race for the last No. 1 seed. Florida joined a place in front of the volunteers in the Netto ranking on Wednesday, which are heavily taken into account by the selection committee, and brought the gators to second place alone in the seconds.

Alabama: The Crimson tide is rarely hit on the glass, but Florida exceeded Alabama 50-35, including a 16-10 advance at the end of offensive.

Key moment

Walter Jr. in the second half connected to Condon on two dunks within one minute; The second presented the Gator 12 with less than eight minutes. Alabama could not bring the deficit to five points up to the last 90 seconds of the game and never came into a single property.

Key

Clayton Jr. and Condon combined 36 from Floridas 72 trials from the field and 15 of his 29 attempts to freeze, which the Gator have aggressively.

Next on

Alabama ends the regular season on Saturday at No. 1 Auburn, after the Tigers had only started their second defeat against the conference on Tuesday in Texas A&M. Florida organizes Ole Miss on Saturday.