hat a night Florida had this evening! I just watched the second half, but it was an amazing half of basketball. It was a classic case of five guys playing unselfish, fundamental team basketball. And they took UCLA apart. Rather than cutting down the net, Florida should have unbolted the rim; they owned it the last 10 minutes of the game. And, as you have now heard at least three-gazillion times, Billy Donovan became the second youngest Division I head basketball coach to ever win a national championship. Only Bobby Knight was younger. Coach Donovan also becomes one of only three coaches to get to the final four as both a coach and a player. The other two? Bobby Knight — again — and Dean Smith.
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