GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Women’s Basketball Team (8-2) returns home for the final five games of the non-conference portion of its schedule beginning with a Sunday, Dec. 7 meeting with South Alabama. Tip against the Jaguars at Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center is slated for 2 p.m. EST.
 
The Gators are coming off a tough, 68-64 road loss at Virginia Tech which dropped their overall record to 8-2 on the season. Liv McGill, whose 26.8 points per game rank third in the nation as of Dec. 4, scored a game-high 30 points, and Laila Reynolds added 10, but it wasn’t enough for Florida to overcome its 22 turnovers.
 
Reynolds (13.8 ppg) and Me’Arah O’Neal (14.7) give the Gators a trio of double-digit scorers, as Florida outscores its opponents by an average of 20.2 points per game. O’Neal paces the team in rebounding (8.3 rpg) and blocked shots (1.50 bpg), while McGill leads the Gators in assists (5.6) and steals (3.88 spg).
 
South Alabama (6-2) has already won as many games this season as they did in the entirety of the 2024-25 campaign (6-24). The Jaguars and Gators have played three common opponents so far this year—Memphis, North Florida and Florida Atlantic.
 

	Florida			So. Alabama
	W/L	Score		W/L	Score
Memphis	W	74-60		L	68-76
North Florida	W	96-62		W	83-46
Florida Atlantic	W	59-51		W	70-63

 
South Alabama uses a balanced scoring attack led by junior guard Amyah Sutton’s 13.6 points per game. Cordasia Harris (12.5 ppg) and Daniela Gonzalez (10.6) also average double figures in scoring this year for the Jaguars, and four other members of the squad average between six and 10 points. Harris is the team’s leading rebounder on the year (8.3 rpg), and she makes a team-high 54.4 percent of her field goal attempts.
 
One of the Jaguars key Achilles’ heels is turnovers where they average 19.3 per game. They also make just 64.2 percent of their free throw attempts as a team.
 
The Gators are 6-3 all-time against South Alabama, but the teams haven’t faced off against one another since Nov. 11, 2016. Ronni Williams, Eleanna Christinaki and Haley Lorenzen each scored 16 points apiece for the Gators in that 85-33 victory, as Florida’s defense held the Jaguars to fewer than 10 points in the first, third and fourth quarters, and just 19.6 percent shooting from the field overall. Florida has won six straight in the series, including the last two at home.
 
South Alabama (6-2)

A FLORIDA WIN WOULD …

• Improve the Gators record to 9-2 on the year.
• Improve Florida’s record against South Alabama to 7-3.
• Run the Gators’ streak of consecutive non-conference home wins to 13, which is the eighth longest such streak in program history.

TALE OF THE TAPE

Florida		So. Alabama
78.2	PPG	77.5
58.0	OPP PPG	63.3
+20.2	SCORING MARGIN	+14.2
45.2	FG %	46.0
36.5	OPP FG%	37.8
27.0	3 FG%	38.9
26.0	OPP 3 FG%	24.7
4.8	3FG/G	7.8
69.9	FT %	64.2
41.7	REBOUNDS/G	40.8
36.1	OPP REBOUNDS/G	33.4
+5.6	REB MARGIN	+7.4
12.9	ASSISTS/G	16.3
15.6	TURNOVER/G	19.3
+0.83	A/TO RATIO	+0.84
11.2	STEALS/G	9.9
4.30	BLOCKS/G	4.13

 

PROJECTED FLORIDA STARTERS

 
GATOR BITES

• Through games of Thursday, Dec. 4, Florida is tied for 11th in the SEC this season in points per game (78.2), 11th in scoring defense (58.0), 11th in scoring margin (+20.2), 12th in field goal percentage (.452), ninth in field goal percentage defense (.365), fifth in three-point field goal percentage defense (.260), eighth in steals (11.2), and eighth in turnover margin (+5.50).
• Liv McGill just missed out on her second career triple-double with a 26-point, 9-rebound, 9-assist effort vs. North Florida on Nov. 3. She came up two rebounds shy in the Gators following game against Chattanooga on Nov. 6 with 38 points, 10 assists and 8 rebounds.
• Liv McGill became the first player in Gators women’s basketball history to be named a US Basketball Writers Association National Player of the Week on Tuesday, Nov. 11. She averaged 27.7 points, 6.0 rebounds, 7.3 assists, and 5.00 steals while connecting on 40.9 percent of her three-point field goal attempts in Florida’s three wins. She also was named the SEC Player of the Week for her performance during that same stretch of games.
• Liv McGill was named the most outstanding player of the Grand Cayman Classic over Thanksgiving weekend when she averaged 27.0 points, 4.5 rebounds, 4,0 assists, 2.00 steals and 1.00 blocked shots.
• Since the 1999-2000 season, only two players in the SEC have recorded three or more games of at least 25 points, five rebounds, five assists and five steals—Liv McGill (three in the first six games this season) and Ole Miss’ Armintie Price (four)
• Me’Arah O’Neal has four double-doubles this season after recording one in her freshman campaign.

PROJECTED SOUTH ALABAMA STARTERS

	No.	Ht.	Pos.	Class	Hometown / Previous Schools
Chrysta Narcisse	0	6-0	G	R-So.	Lafayette, La. / Texas Tech
Amyah Sutton	11	5-7	G	Jr.	Oklahoma City, Okla. / New Mexico JC
Daniela Gonzalez	20	6-0	F	Sr.	Jamundi, Columbia / South Florida
Cordasia Harris	22	6-1	F	Gr.	Collirene, Ala. / Bishop State, Alabama State
Diawna Carter-Hartley	25	6-1	F	Jr.	Cincinnati, Ohio / Stetson

JAGUARS QUICK HITS

• The Jaguars have already won as many games this season (6-2) than they did throughout the entirety of 2024-25 (6-24).
• South Alabama is averaging 77.5 points per game, which would be the highest scoring average for the program since the 1989-90 season (78.1 ppg) should they maintain it.
• The Jaguars were picked to finish 14th in the Sun Belt Conference in the preseason coaches poll
• South Alabama uses a balanced scoring attack with seven players averaging between 6.4 and 13.6 points per game.

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