Florida Gators Basketball: Positive Takeaways From Loss To Gonzaga

3. Dominance On The Offensive Glass

The Florida Gators have been surprisingly strong on the offensive glass. Florida doesn’t have an elite rotation of players as it pertains to height, but there are explosive athletes and powerful big men who can bully opponents down low.

The Gonzaga Bulldogs witnessed first hand how tenacious that group can be when Florida put forth a display of pure dominance on the offensive boards.

Florida pulled down 16 offensive rebounds to 12 by the opposition. That’s quite impressive when one considers that Gonzaga big men Zach Collins and Przemek Karnowski are both 7’0″ or taller, and Killian Tillie and Johnathan Williams are 6’9″ or taller.

If that’s not enough to keep you intrigued, all five starters and eight of the nine players who saw court time for Florida had at least one offensive board, including three players who pulled down three.

For those who believe this was a fluke performance, Florida now has at least 11 offensive rebounds in five of its six games. That includes the 17 it had against Mercer and the 14 it recorded against both Florida Gulf Coast and St. Bonaventure.

With 28 offensive rebounds over the past two games—both of which were against NCAA Tournament level opponents—the Gators can clearly get after the offensive boards as well as any team in the country.