There were quite a few Auburn fans that had traveled all the way from Alabama down to the O'Connell Center, Billy Donovan Court!
The Auburn fans must of thought that they were going to witness Bruce Pearl's Tigers "finally" beat Mike White's Florida Gators! Wrong-Umendo, again!
However, #2 Auburn ran into a buzz-saw of Gators in the O'Dome for a 63-62 loss - should have been a worse defeat!
That NCAA projected #1 seed is probably short-lived, too, and it's back to the drawing board for Pearl's Auburn team. There is still the finish line remaining to the SEC regular season.
This was not the first time that White's Florida team took down a top 4/5 Auburn team coached by Pearl. Back in the 2020 season when college basketball's NCAA Tournament was first cancelled, Florida had defeated #4 Auburn, 69-47, in the O'Dome. That Florida team had players like pre-season SEC poy Kerry Blackshear, Keyontae Johnson (2021 SEC pre-season poy), Andrew Nembhard (now with #1 Gonzaga), Tre Mann (#1 pick for Oklahoma City Thunder), Scotty Lewis and company. Too bad that 2020 season was cancelled because Florida had a loaded team that year.
Getting back to today's UF win over Auburn,
Florida's center, Collin Castleton, outperformed Auburn's Walker Kessler for the second meeting against each other:
in Gvlle, Castleton (19 points, 8 reb, 3 blks, 2 stl, 1 A) vs Kessler (11 pts, 3 reb, 0 blks, 1 Stl).
in Auburn, Castleton (22 points, 10 reb, 2 blks) vs Kessler(6 pts, 8 reb, 3 blks).
After this loss to these lowly Gators(UF's KP only #55), how far will #2 Auburn drop in the next AP poll? From #2 to number 22?
Auburn has not defeated Florida (in Gvlle) since before Billy Donovan was hired - 1996.
This kind of reminds me of some of those long winning streaks by Florida over some other SEC rivals in football:
i.e, Tennessee, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, LSU, Georgia, etc.!
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So, What happened in 1996?
#1 Movie: Independence Day
Nintendo releases their newest gaming system the Nintendo 64 or N64 in Japan.
Ebay starts online auction website,
IBM's Deep Blue defeats Chess Champion Gary Kasparov, (a win for AI over mankind!)
causing the mass slaughter of Herds of Cows and new laws to stop beef being sold on the bone.
Technology 1996
NASA launches the STS-72 Space Shuttle mission during January of 1996. The Space Shuttle Endeavour launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with 6 astronauts on board. The goal of the mission was to retrieve the Japanese Space Flyer Unit satellite, deliver and retrieve a number of NASA experiments, and to perform 2 space walks during which they could test tools that would be used to assemble the International Space Station. The mission was successfully completed and after 8 days and 22 hours they returned to Earth.
1. NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor
2. The Mars Global Surveyor was a robotic spacecraft with the mission objective to take high resolution photos of Mars while while mapping the planet from orbit.
. This was the first successful Mars mission in about 20 years and was one of the most comprehensive missions, returning large amounts of useful data to NASA.
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The Auburn fans must of thought that they were going to witness Bruce Pearl's Tigers "finally" beat Mike White's Florida Gators! Wrong-Umendo, again!
However, #2 Auburn ran into a buzz-saw of Gators in the O'Dome for a 63-62 loss - should have been a worse defeat!
That NCAA projected #1 seed is probably short-lived, too, and it's back to the drawing board for Pearl's Auburn team. There is still the finish line remaining to the SEC regular season.
This was not the first time that White's Florida team took down a top 4/5 Auburn team coached by Pearl. Back in the 2020 season when college basketball's NCAA Tournament was first cancelled, Florida had defeated #4 Auburn, 69-47, in the O'Dome. That Florida team had players like pre-season SEC poy Kerry Blackshear, Keyontae Johnson (2021 SEC pre-season poy), Andrew Nembhard (now with #1 Gonzaga), Tre Mann (#1 pick for Oklahoma City Thunder), Scotty Lewis and company. Too bad that 2020 season was cancelled because Florida had a loaded team that year.
Getting back to today's UF win over Auburn,
Florida's center, Collin Castleton, outperformed Auburn's Walker Kessler for the second meeting against each other:
in Gvlle, Castleton (19 points, 8 reb, 3 blks, 2 stl, 1 A) vs Kessler (11 pts, 3 reb, 0 blks, 1 Stl).
in Auburn, Castleton (22 points, 10 reb, 2 blks) vs Kessler(6 pts, 8 reb, 3 blks).
After this loss to these lowly Gators(UF's KP only #55), how far will #2 Auburn drop in the next AP poll? From #2 to number 22?
Auburn has not defeated Florida (in Gvlle) since before Billy Donovan was hired - 1996.
This kind of reminds me of some of those long winning streaks by Florida over some other SEC rivals in football:
i.e, Tennessee, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, LSU, Georgia, etc.!
Florida 63-62 Auburn (Feb 19, 2022) Game Recap - ESPN
Expert recap and game analysis of the Florida Gators vs. Auburn Tigers NCAAM game from February 19, 2022 on ESPN.
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So, What happened in 1996?
#1 Movie: Independence Day
Nintendo releases their newest gaming system the Nintendo 64 or N64 in Japan.
Ebay starts online auction website,
IBM's Deep Blue defeats Chess Champion Gary Kasparov, (a win for AI over mankind!)
Prince Charles and Diana Divorce
Mad Cow Disease hits Britaincausing the mass slaughter of Herds of Cows and new laws to stop beef being sold on the bone.
Technology 1996
- DVD's Launched in Japan.
- Windows NT 4.0 released by Microsoft.
- Internet Explorer 3 web browser released.
- Duke Nukem 3D Shareware released to public.
- On July 5th Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal to be successfully cloned.
- Ask Jeeves formed.
- Global Warming shows a record high.
United States -- STS-72 Space Shuttle Mission
NASA launches the STS-72 Space Shuttle mission during January of 1996. The Space Shuttle Endeavour launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with 6 astronauts on board. The goal of the mission was to retrieve the Japanese Space Flyer Unit satellite, deliver and retrieve a number of NASA experiments, and to perform 2 space walks during which they could test tools that would be used to assemble the International Space Station. The mission was successfully completed and after 8 days and 22 hours they returned to Earth.
Mars Global Surveyor
1. NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor
2. The Mars Global Surveyor was a robotic spacecraft with the mission objective to take high resolution photos of Mars while while mapping the planet from orbit.
. This was the first successful Mars mission in about 20 years and was one of the most comprehensive missions, returning large amounts of useful data to NASA.
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