Gators Sitting Pretty at the Top of the Week 2 Men’s Basketball AP Poll

The Florida Gators are on their quest to get back to the top of the College Basketball world. They have wasted zero time getting this season started on a very high note.

Unlike many teams in this era of basketball, the Gators didn’t start things with a couple of warm-up games. Instead, they opened the campaign with a matchup against No. 14-ranked Miami. The Gators easily took care of business en route to a solid 10-point victory.

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They responded nicely with a 31-point defeat of Jacksonville University to move their record to 2-0.

For their efforts in week one of the college basketball season, the Gators stayed atop of the AP Poll ranking as the second round of the rankings was released on Monday.

The top five of the AP poll are absolutely loaded with great teams. The Gators take the top spot at No. 1 and are followed by Duke, Illinois, UConn, and Michigan State to round out the top five. The Blue Blood programs are back, and they are loaded in for another fun season.

Some newcomers in the top 25 are really just BYU and Nebraska. The top of the chart is all blue-blood, historical programs, seemingly from top to bottom.

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For the Gators, the tests don’t slow down; they keep on coming. On Tuesday night, they have a marquee matchup against the Florida State Seminoles in Tallahassee, which is always a tough place to play. Then, they play the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, who won’t be the biggest test, but it sets up a potential Final Four or National Championship matchup against the Duke Blue Devils.

That game will be a battle for the No. 1 spot in the country early in the season. Each of those games comes before they start what is always a gauntlet of an SEC schedule, which gets going in early December against the No. 7 Texas Longhorns.

Getting to the tournament shouldn’t be any problem, but when the end of the season does come around, the Gators will be a hardened group. They are going to experience some real adversity early on in this season and will be…

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