San Francisco – The Golden State Warriors once relyed on a deep bank and contributions from up and right down to win the championship.
On Thursday evening, Florida No. 1, which was trained by the previous USF coach and Saint Mary's Guard Todd Golden, took a page from the Dubbs book. In the opening round of the west regional in San Francisco against Maryland against No. 4 in San Francisco, the G-profit presented in San Francisco.
The Terrapins, led by their praised start -up “Crab Five”, tried for about half-hour. But ultimately Math won.
The results were increasingly tending into the favor of Florida when Maryland's starter fell, and the Gator separated the path to win – and go to the elite on Saturday.
Florida (33-4) took a 65-54 lead with 10:03 to play on Alijah Martin's Layup and led the remainder of the trail in double digits.
The Gators held the pedal from there and reached a 18-point advantage several times.
Florida has appeared his first sweet 16 appearance since 2017, while Maryland (27-9) had not reached the second weekend of the NCAA tournament since 2016.
After Florida brought a two-point lead into half, Florida put the clamps on the crab originally of the second half and took control of the sport. Maryland, which was gathered from a 10-point deficit originally of the primary half, had no answers this time.
Both teams needed a minute – or many of the first 10 – to settle within the environment within the CNASE Center.
But as soon as they did it, it was a reasonably even first half. Maryland, who waned 20: 9 in the primary half, stumbled out of his early Stupor and made 7-0 back against the sport.
The Terrapins went with the free throw from Derik Queen with 5:49 in half a lead from Derik Queen and it was a game from there.
They were supported by Floridas 13 sales in the primary half and an injury on the opposite side of the soil. Florida had lost all-secret strikers Alex Condon in the primary half with an obvious ankle injury with 12:15 and stayed off the bottom until half-time.
Condon got here out for warm -up within the second half and entered the sport within the brand of 13:29 again after testing extensive testing of his ankle in Florida's tunnel area. He immediately turned the ball at his first possession in the sport.
The Gators fought without Condon to finish half, commit 11 fouls and return to the sport by racing to the sting.
But even in his absence, Florida performed originally of the second half. The Gators pushed the two-point half-time lead over 10 points and led 55: 49 when Dondon went back into the sport.
That was the subsequent thing Maryland got the remainder of the way in which when Florida dominated the glass and exceeded the Terps 42-20.
The Crab Five launch line -up, which had accomplished the vast majority of Maryland throughout the season, has largely done her job. Queen had 27 points, yes'kobi Gillespie had 17, Julian Reese added 12 and Rodney Rice showed 10.
But Selton Miguel, the fifth member of the beginning quintet, was kept goalless. So was the remainder of Maryland's squad.
The terps only played two bank players before the sport was unreachable, de'shawn Harris-Smith and Jordan Geremino, and so they were on the ground for 28 minutes. Maryland only scored three bank points.
Reese and Rice were recently drained within the second half, bang and grabbed after respiratory after several breaks within the campaign.
Florida meanwhile received points from the road -up. Eight Gators got into the goalscorers: Will Richard (15 points), Martin (14), Walter Clayton Jr. (13 points), Denzel Aberdeen (12), Thomas Haugh (12), Ruebe Chinyelu (10), Condon (6) and Micah Handlogten (2).
Florida meets the winner of Arkansas and Texas Tech, the late game on Thursday evening in San Francisco. The results of this game weren’t accomplished when the Bay Area news group went to print.
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