National Champions

The Gators men’s basketball team returned on Tuesday to Gainesville where 8,500 fans awaited at Flavet Field to celebrate the team's triumphant victory (65-63) Monday night against the University of Houston in the NCAA championship game.

It was the scream heard ‘round Gainesville and, perhaps, all of collegiate sports. A thunderous clangor rang out from the more than 11,000 fans wedged together at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center. The national championship returned to Gainesville for the first time since 2014, and UF students greeted it with a deafening roar.

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Head Coach Bryan Shelton and the top-ranked 2021 University of Florida Men's Tennis Team made history on Saturday night, winning the program's first national championship.