The Florida Gators men's basketball team represents the University of Florida in NCAA Division I competition, in which they are a member of the Southeastern Conference's Eastern Division. They play their home games at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center in Gainesville, Florida, USA. Billy Donovan has been the head coach of the Gators since the 1996-97 season.
The Gators have two national championships, having won the 2006 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament back-to-back, the first team since the 1991-1992 Duke team to accomplish this feat and the first to do it with the same starting lineup.
The Florida Gators men's team annually plays a 16-game conference schedule that is preceded by an out of conference schedule against few annual opponents except for Florida State. Florida also often plays Providence during their non-conference schedule because of Billy Donovan's ties to the university. Their conference schedule consists of a pair of home-and-home games against the other five SEC Eastern Division teams, plus one game against each of the six Western Division teams, with home games alternating each season. The Gators have seldom had rivals in basketball until recently, when their success found them competing against Kentucky and Tennessee.
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