TAMPA — Florida coach Todd Golden‘s first brush with the NCAA tournament came as a 10-year-old in Phoenix watching UCLA win the 1995 national championship — the last of its 11 titles.
Three decades later, Golden aims to match John Wooden’s Bruins from their dynasty days as repeat champions.
Whenver the top-seeded Gators (26-7) have the ball during Friday night’s opening round matchup with Prairie View (19-17) in Tampa, Golden wants his team to embrace one of the principles Wooden espoused while coaching 10 national champions, including back-to-back winners in 1964-65 and seven straight from 1967-73.