Florida Gators Repeat
Posted on April 3rd, 2007 by
It was a pretty good game, the Gators set the tone early and held off OSU for pretty much the rest of the game. Corey Brewer played pretty good, and got the most outstanding player award, but I am just wondering if that award can go to a player from the losing team? If you compare Greg Oden, and Corey Brewer and see who had a bigger influence on the game, there’s no question it was the future first NBA draft pick, Greg Oden. Other than that, it’ll be interesting if the Gators can make it into the tournament next year and do it all over again. They became the first team in the last 15 years to win back to back champions, and are currently tied with Duke for the most consecutive tournament wins.
A long, tough season ended with a Gator chomp again.
Mission accomplished for Florida.
The Gators were too much to handle once again Monday night, keeping their stranglehold on the college basketball world with an 84-75 victory over Ohio State for their second straight national championship.
Al Horford had 18 points and 12 rebounds, Taurean Green had 16 and Greg Oden’s 25 points and 12 rebounds weren’t enough for Ohio State (35-4) to stop the Gators (35-5) from completing the quest they set upon when all the starters delayed their NBA plans for a try at another title.
“It feels great. This is what we came back to school for,” Florida guard Corey Brewer said. “This is what we’re all about at the University of Florida, winning championships. We’re No. 1 again, two in a row, back-to-back. That’s what we do.”
They celebrated with the usual Gator chomps and took a chomp out of NCAA history, too — becoming the first team to repeat since Duke in 1991-92, the first ever to go back-to-back with the same starting five and adding their name to the debate about the best teams of all time.
Best athletic programs of all time, too.
This win completes a 2007 championship-game sweep of the Buckeyes in the two biggest college sports — men’s hoops and football. Florida, a 41-14 winner in the football title game in January, remains the only program in history to hold both championships at the same time.
Eddie Pells, AP National Writer #
