John Egbunu uncertain for SEC tournament after thumb injury

Mar 11, 2016, 23:03

Regardless of what happens - even if the Gators don't rebuild their NCAA resume - White feels like his team has played well in his first season. So it's a little scary, but like coach White said to us the other day in the locker room, 'Sometimes fear is a little bit better motivator than anything else'.

Jalen Jones has been the definitive star for Texas A&M all season and the Aggies will be looking for more of the same in the SEC Tournament.

Egbunu became more involved by diving into a loose-ball scramble before asserting himself on the boards with six first-half rebounds that got Florida out of a back-and-forth battle into a 29-23 lead at halftime.

Now, a dearth of those points - attended, as ever, by the deafening clang of shots from a team that made just three of its 19 threes - has doomed Florida to the NIT, where the Gators should be a top seed without the home-court advantage usually granted by that status, thanks to the imminent beginning of renovations to the O'Connell Center.

Florida won the first SEC tournament meeting between the schools since 2009 and this one was important in getting the Gators into the NCAA Tournament discussion. The last team to pull off that feat was Mississippi State in 2009. I've made some of those decisions that helped us and then I've made some of those decisions that I've regretted in terms of playing these guys only this amount of minutes, so on and so forth.

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Florida held on to beat Arkansas 68-61 Thursday at Bridgestone Arena despite Hannahs scoring 33 points for the Razorbacks. "Well, we played some good teams".

"We played good enough defense, I thought", Anderson said.

White's career record in conference tournament games is 5-4, having led Louisiana Tech to the finals of the 2012 WAC Tournament and 2014 Conference USA Tournament.

Asked what it will take to make the NCAA Tournament, White responded: "Beat Arkansas". "We didn't really help him at all". Moreover, Danuel House and Tyler Davis will need to come up big on Friday if they want to stay the course and compete for the conference tourney title.

"It doesn't matter. We're going home".

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White certainly appreciated the Gators' play at clutch moments that resulted in a hard-fought win over Arkansas. "But at the same time, I'm not completely sold that he'll be effective at all". It takes away from your focus on the Hogs.

Said Chiozza: "We didn't play great but we gave ourselves a shot at the end".

Florida sophomore point guard Chris Chiozza, who is coming off a 17-point, eight-assist performance in the Missouri win, said players are approaching the SEC Tournament as a fresh start.

"Got my confidence on track", Chiozza said Monday. You can also purchase a subscription and have full access to the site. "So hopefully this just gets me back to where I was at".

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