Growing up my entire life rooting for the University of Florida, my first real March Madness memories and moments began with them making the NCAA Tournament.
The first one was vague, because I was young.
In 1994, any Florida Gator fan will remember the Final Four and immediately associate that memory with one man: Grant Hill.
I was at my grandparents’ house for the game, wearing a Final Four t-shirt my dad bought me earlier in the week, as I watched Hill take over the game scoring 25-points and leading a Duke 13-point comeback to beat the Gators 65-60.
As a Florida fan, football was always No. 1 with the success of the basketball team acting as a bonus for the time being.
It wasn’t until Billy Donovan arrived that basketball began to rival football in Gainesville.
Even with the success to the program that Donovan brought, the team would continue to face heartbreak after heartbreak in the NCAA tournament, including two upsetting first round exits.
Then 2000 came around and so did the best Florida team in some time.
As a five-seed, who else would the experts expect to see upset other than the Gators—not to mention they were playing the upset specialists Butler Bulldogs who gave new meaning to the phrase “the Butler did it.”
The game was close throughout and this Florida team was great, and could really go up and down the court and shoot the three,
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