Ten games into the 2025-26 campaign, there are a ton of different directions one could go trying to evaluate the Florida Gators. Their guard play has been mostly awful, and Florida can’t shoot from three to save their life, and as a result, the Gators are just 6-4 on the season. But, if one wants their glass half full, three of their losses have been against top ten opponents, and in all four of their losses, the Gators have had a shot to win at the end.
But Todd Golden isn’t taking a glass-half-full approach, and even after beating George Washington 80-70, he knows there are still plenty of flaws the Gators need to fix if Florida is going to make a run in March.
Todd Golden wants Florida to keep improving
After the win on Saturday, Golden made sure in his postgame comments to highlight that Florida isn’t where he wants them to be ten games into the season:
“Obviously happy about a big win today, you know, against George Washington, really solid club, a team that's played well over the course of the year, and is a quad two game at this moment. And as I told the guys, we're never going to be disappointed with a 10-point victory.
I do think we have a lot that we need to continue to improve upon, you know, a lot of the areas that we say doesn't require much talent. I feel like we're trying, but we have not been consistent enough.
And it's really important for me and for (Xaivan Lee), teammates over the next couple of weeks prior to and through the break before SEC play that we tighten up in those areas.”
Reading between the lines, it goes beyond the inability to shoot three that Golden is frustrated with. The Gators committed another 13 turnovers, including a stretch of four in a two-minute span in the second half that enabled George Washington to creep back into the game. Florida is now 292nd in the country in turnovers per game.
Florida will have three more games in the non-conference before opening up SEC play in January.