Despite the fact that Todd Golden, a former Auburn assistant under Bruce Pearl from 2014 to 2016, is coaching the Gators, Bruce Pearl stated on Friday that he hopes to “beat the pants off” Florida.
However, the Gators were the ones taking the battering on Saturday afternoon at Florida’s Stephen C. O’Connell Centre, defeating the 12th-ranked Tigers 81-65 to drop Auburn to 19-5 (8-3 SEC).
Here is what Pearl had to say about Saturday’s defeat in Gainesville.
OVERVIEW: “I’d like to congratulate Florida. They were excellent and really organised. They had greater physicality. They handled the ball with great care; they did not turn it over. We didn’t play as well defensively. There was only one of us.
