There's a lot going on in UF athletics this week, including the baseball team hosting Kentucky to end the regular season.
The Gators won a big weekend series at Vanderbilt and returned home in a three-way tie with the Commodores and defending national champion South Carolina atop the SEC East at 20-7.
While the Gators host Kentucky in a three-game series to conclude the regular season, the Commodores will be at Georgia and South Carolina at Alabama.
It's going to be an interesting weekend of baseball for sure.
Meanwhile, the Florida softball team will be home hosting the Gainesville Regional and defending national champion UCLA, and the women's lacrosse team – after earning its first NCAA Tournament win in school history on Saturday over Stanford – hosts Duke on Saturday.
With so much going on, here are some links you might find interesting from Gator Nation sports:
--First-year Florida football coach Will Muschamp will have a different view of the Gators-Bulldogs rivalry when the schools meet next season in Jacksonville. Click here for a report from the Gainesville Sun.
--A story on Duke's victory over Penn on Sunday in women's lacrosse. The Duke-Florida game starts at 3 p.m. Saturday at Dizney Stadium.
--Former Gators F Chandler Parsons has been invited to this week's NBA Combine in Chicago. Here is a look at Parsons' outlook as the combine approaches from the Orlando Sentinel.
--With Kentucky coming to town for a three-game series, here is a look at the Wildcats' baseball team from the Lexington Herald-Leader.
--The UF women's tennis team swept South Carolina on Sunday to win their NCAA Regional and advance to face Clemson on Friday in the championship round of the NCAA Tournament in Palo Alto, Calif. Click here to read more from the Independent Florida Alligator.
--The UF men's tennis team is also heading to California after rolling past Miami on Sunday in the NCAA Gainesville Regional. Click here for more from the Gainesville Sun.
--NBA star Kevin Durant once bombed in a game against former Gators center Vernon Macklin after trash-talking repeatedly to Macklin. Click here to read a story from ESPN.com on Durant's path to NBA stardom.
--Former UF golfer Brian Gay was in the hunt at the TPC on Sunday but mistakes late cost him a chance to win. Click here for a story from the Gainesville Sun.
--Here is an interesting look at SEC men's basketball over the past eight years from MrSEC.com, who did some research and then created his a points system to rank the programs from top to bottom.
--No secret here that SEC schools take football seriously. Here is a look at how well they pay their assistant coaches from USA Today.
