Florida will be even more thin in the frontcourt when it faces Kentucky on Saturday in its regular-season finale at the O’Connell Center.
Redshirt freshman forward Dontay Bassett was diagnosed with a concussion Thursday and will not play against the Wildcats.
The 6-foot-9, 240-pound Bassett suffered the injury when he was hit in face inadvertently while fighting for a rebound in the first half against Alabama on Tuesday. Bassett sat out the second half.
Bassett had started UF’s last two games at center and had been playing better of late, scoring a career-high 12 points and grabbing six rebounds in UF’s 72-66 win over Auburn last Saturday.
With Bassett out, Florida will be down to a three-player post rotation of junior center Kevarrius Hayes, redshirt sophomore forward Keith Stone and sophomore center Gorjok Gak against the Wildcats.
Wow…
Can’t catch a break with the bigs. We need his size moving forward but definitely against the Moonshiners. Get better big fella!
Glad you clarified with the “…moving forward…” Let us know what “We need his size moving backward” would mean. Whoops, I’m going to try to be nicer.
If Bassett is out, no biggie. Kentucky ain’t winnin’ Saturday!
Let me clarify it for you, bf. It is highly likely that the Florida Gators basketball team and coach White will be moving forward in a couple of weeks to the NCAA tourney, and that prospect currently is highly doubtful for your Noles. Comprehend now? Highly unlikely.
He’s a UNF Ospreys guy and Nole jock sniffer.
Your dumb ass is back I see. Even for you, this is pretty basic and stupid.
I thought you claimed the Gators would lose all three of their final games– Basketball Fool.
Hang in there dude! Get better and come back stonger!
Kinda’ shows how common concussions are in sports. 10 years ago he would just have been told to shake it off and would have played the second half. I think it is great the trainers are catching these for the long term health of these young men. Sucks to loose him heading into the KU meeting but much more important that Dontay is healthy.
Are the Gators playing Kansas?!
bf. Anyone with basic comprehension skills, not advanced troll skills, would know he was referring to Kentucky, not Kansas. But troll on. It is what you can do best, Mikey.
Serious fans don’t make the KU, UK mistake.
Don’t feed the troll …
It IS UK, not KU, KU is Kansas.
Now see, I knew this would get under your skin…
Bassett is an asset. His evolving offensive potential gives Florida hope. The other bigs ; especially Hayes, leaves little hope offensively. The effort by the entire team, must be at an optimal level. Allen and Stone must compliment the other guards. Aggression, aggression , aggression.
Have to make shots, plain and simple. We are who we are….Hudson keep playing like he can…and Allen staying aggressive. Kentucky, however, is playing very good ball right now. They have length at all positions…they are peaking at the right time.
Sounds like something Seth Greenberg would say but he would have used the word “basketball” about four times!
The guy your hero Buzz Peterson followed…I knew you would bring it back…as you predicated…he is coming to UF!
**predicted…let me correct because you’ll share with “wifey”….hahaha…good one though!
At home with a raucous crowd.
Senior Day.
They’re playing well.
Their biggest rival.
Building momentum.
THEY DO NOT WANT TO LOSE THIS GAME!
bf. Be real, Mikey. Post your true, honest feelings and prediction and the Florida vs. UK game. You know, just like your prediction about the Alabama game. We all know how dead on you were with that one. But, then again, here you are still foaming your troll BS.
If Florida wins out, wouldn’t they have to be a 4-seed at worst in the Dance?
Are you ill, or just trying to bait us with a seemingly reasonable comment? Where’s all the nonsense about Michelle White losing all those games where she was the favorite? Either way, I’ll bite. If you mean winning the SEC Tournament championship, then a 4-seed sounds about right for a 23-11 team. If you’re considering that a possibility, that’s a big change for someone who recently claimed the Gators could only make the dance by winning the SEC Tournament while in the same breath insisting they had no shot at doing so. Sounds like you’re just fishing to see how many of us may have jumped that far back onto the Gator bandwagon.
What percentage on here, Joe, would even recognize “bait”? Yeah, I like to throw the line in the water every so often. Reasons why Florida will win Saturday? Anyone could give a number of reasons and most would be just hogwash.
If they play 40 minutes, they will beat Kentucky.
My gut says they’ll play 40 minutes.
Bf. FSU would have to win out to be a 16th seed. A 15th seed at best. North Florida has no chance of being in the NCAA tourney. So sorry, Mikey.
An ACC team a 15-seed or 16-seed, huh?!
gelco30, is this damned guy for real?!!
I DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CONCUSSIONS.
QUESTION?
IS THERE REAL EVIDENCE THAT HE IS UNABLE TO PLAY BECAUSE OF OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE?
OR IS THIS JUST PERIODICAL SO THAT NO ONE IS LIABLE 20 YEARS FROM NOW?
I HAVE A FEELING THAT , TODAY EVERYBODY IS CONCERNED ABOUT POSSIBILITY THAT MAYBE THERE IS REAL INJURY.
AS A FATHER I DO GET THAT. I REALLY DO.
AT THE SAME TIME IT JUST SEEMS THAT THE PENDULUM MAY HAVE SWUNG THE OTHER WAY NOW.
GO GATORS!!!
I’m no doctor either.
There’s a good reason though that a guy that played in the NFL for ten years, at age 6o, might have difficulty remembering his two children’s first names! Brett Favre is already having trouble with memory.
You didn’t say anything about Egbunu’s rehab/recovery. We need that.
I’m no physicist, but I know what matters….
When you call the Jim Rome show, what name, location do you use?
bf. Please do not come on here and refer to yourself as part of the “we” on here. You are not.
TampaGator seems pretty nervous about the game.
Wonder if he even knows Florida is favored?
No pass on your Alabama nonsense. You still are not acting like a grown man.
bf, what I do know is that you will be on here trolling no matter what happens Saturday. You posted a bunch of nonsense before the Florida vs. Bama game about the Gators and White and you have not accepted any responsibility for your nonsense after being completely wrong about that game and about White as a coach (who coached a brilliant game). But, I am sure you will be on here railing against Florida and insulting White if current underdog Kentucky wins Saturday. And you will not go away from trolling this site if Florida and White do win Saturday. It is who you are. Everyone knows that, sadly for you.
If you guys would simply ignore bf, maybe he would go away. Just don’t comment. Comment to each other but not him.
I can’t be ignored and you know it! If you don’t like it, don’t read it — but you read it!! Until I came in, Brockway’s “crowd” was a C at best. Almost singlehandedly, I’ve made it a B+. Don’t forget now, the Gators are favored against Kentucky, not underdogs. Favorites, got that?!
bf. It is not a “C at best” on here now. With you on here, it is definitely a “bs.” And nothing about “bs” makes anything or anyone better than before, no matter what your “in need of 15 minutes of fame” frail ego tells you or what you post about yourself on here. Man, go get some psychological help.
BF…do your multi-personalities converse with one another? Do they have to babble here?
Win or lose tomorrow against KY and the Gators are still in the big dance. That is a fact that you were WRONG about, as usual!! Tell us again what a horrible coach White is. In the tourney his 2nd and 3rd season after inheriting a team with a losing record the prior season. White is getting better and you are getting worse with every prediction you make brain free!
Gatorlover. If we ignore bf, he simply will change his ID on here and draw people into his nonsense again under a new name. God, he has had at least 100 IDs on here already. It truly is sad. Mikey truly should work for Russia as an internet troll. Maybe he does already.
He’s been around for years…not happening unless he maybe gets laid or something or his first kiss at least.
Boyfriend wanted a pass from me from his pre-Alabama game nonsense. I said sure, as long as you can act like a grown man. He has not. As expected.
Young man was just getting quality playing time. Hope he responds quickly with the protocol & can get back on the court quicker than Chase Johnson. Get a W against UK on Sat! Go Gators!
Yes, jjg8tor gets it!
I can handle the thin-skinned and narrow-minded — but, it’s a chore at times. The tough ones for me are the ones that can’t take a joke and/or are al-Hussein Obama / Clinton voters. They present a formidable challenge, no doubt. They are secretive too — they won’t say how they voted.
If you think I’m acerbic and annoying now, wait until football starts!
The football team…you guessed it…has a REAL COACH!
Just a thought: Some of you should just comment on the sporting event instead of bf.
CBS Sports and Bleacher Report have the Gators in the Big Dance as a No.9 or 8 seed. They rank 3rd in the country in beating teams in Quad 1. Still, hard to understand a team that has beaten: Cincinnatti, Gonzaga, Kentucky, Auburn, Stanford and Missouri, while losing to Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Loyola of Chicago and Georgia. I stopped scratching my head ’cause I was getting a headache from trying to understand all the offensive and defensive strategies of the Gators.
Yeah, but when we beat KU again we will move up. The optimal spot (IMO) is #6 or if we run the SEC Tourney, #3. These are better positions from which to upset the unsuspecting. 4,5,8,9 all are stinkers…
You, my man, with this post alone, have reached Smith, Sparky and TampaGator status! Stop using the stupid KU. Help us, God!
Hey bf….any more “scoop” on Buzz Peterson??
Since we’re talking college basketball, how about one or several of you twisted liberals tell the rest of us how Sean Miller is still coaching! His voice is on tape talking about the payoff to Ayton and Miller says he’s done “nothing knowingly wrong”! What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope to hear opinions of the astute ones…you know, people like Smith…or TampaGator…Sparky, perhaps…those really good ones.
Just a couple laughable instances of the very flawed NCAA RPI:
Florida — kenpom ranking 24 / RPI 44
Rhode Island kenpom ranking 47, RPI 15
Doubtful that there are computer rankings more respected than kenpom.
And I am doubtful that there are any opinions worldwide that are less respected than yours 🙂
“Sure hope we can beat Kentucky University Saturday!” — David
I know the Gators are performing great and constantly bursting your bubble when you have to worry about someone calling Kentucky KU, and questioning how many Q1 wins UF has!
Go Gators!!
Keep putting the shaft to bf 🙂
Two weeks from now, I would think, if Ayton’s parents and Miller haven’t received a retraction (for starters) from ESPN, almost all of us will know why. Has Miller even asked for one?
If Arizona and Michigan St. end up in the title game, one will actually see — and smell — the stench coming from our tv monitors! Tom Dr. Nassar Izzo and Sean Miller aren’t my two favorite college bb coaches.
So whom is your favorite?
Grammar much, it’s “who” not “whom.”
I’ll predict a Final Four shortly before the tournament and certainly do as well
or better than anyone on this site.
That kenpom and RPI post went over your head, didn’t it?
Didn’t go over my head, but much like when only RPI was used, it’s nothing for the average fan to worry with. Q1 wins, Q2 wins, bad losses, rpi….all just things the committee using to select. Gators are in and after that it’s all about matchups. Win and advance. As Billy Donovan pointed out after the first NC, if you started the tourney over with the same seeds it wouldn’t look the same if played again.
Now about your deflection, you missed the point about your favorite coach?
And “whom is your favorite” is the grammatically correct quesion 🙂
My wife, an English teacher, laughed when I showed your response. Believe what you want.
You have a wife!?!?! Does mommy know you have her in the basement? 😀
That’s funny…you have a wife and all…hahahahahaha…kids, what do ya do with em eh…good one though!! That’s almost as funny as Buzz Peterson to UF!
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But thanks for playing 😉