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game Exhibition Game florida one Nov. 10, 2003 Florida vs. EA Sports All-Stars today’s game UF has won 16 of the last 18 exhibition games Tip 7 p.m. Florida has won eight consecutive exhibition openers Site O’Connell Center (12,000) Gainesville, Fla. TV None tipoff Radio WRUF. Steve Russell and Fresh off its school-record fifth consecutive NCAA appearance, eighth-ranked Florida is Mark Wise call the action set to begin its 85th season of basketball and its eighth under head coach Billy Coaches Billy Donovan is 149-73 in Donovan...Tonight’s game is the first of two exhibition games before Florida begins the his eightth season at Florida 2003-04 season against Montana State on Nov. 25 at the O’Dome...UF is 41-13-1 all time in and 184-93 in his 10th year as exhibition games since Florida began playing exhibition games 31 years ago... The Gators a head coach. Phil Bryant is the head coach of the EA Sports are 17-3-1 in exhibition games under head coach Billy Donovan...Florida has won 16 of the All-Stars last 18 contests, including victories over the Midwest All-Stars and the EA Sports Califor- Tickets Available. Call Gator Ticket nia All-Stars...Florida is 5-1 all-time against the various EA Sports All-Star teams...Donovan Office 352.275.4683 ext. 6800 is 7-0 in the first exhibition game of the season...Florida has 11 century scoring games in the Up Next Nov. 18 vs. Team Nike at 7 p.m. preseason under Donovan...At least one Gator has scored 20 or more points in 17 of the 21 exhibition games Donovan has coached....David Lee and Anthony Roberson scored 22 the polls points apiece in the exhibition opener over the Midwest All-Stars last year. AP ESPN Florida n/a 8th preseason rankings EA Sports n/a n/a The Gators open the season ranked eighth in the nation in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll, the third highest preseason ranking ever for the Gators, matching the preseason rank- series information ing of the 2000 squad that reached the Final Four and National Championship game...The Gators were ranked fifth in the 2001-02 preseason poll and seventh a year ago...It marks the Florida is 5-1 against the various EA Sports fourth time in the last five years that the Gators have opened the season ranked in the All-Star teams, with the lone loss coming in 2001. Overall, the Gators are 41-13-1 in preseason Top 10 in the ESPN/USA Today poll...The AP Poll will be released Nov. 10. exhibition games and are 17-3-1 under Donovan. scouting ea sports all-stars by the numbers Tonight’s exhibition game will be the first for the Gators but the seventh for the EA Sports All-Stars...The EA Sports All-Stars opened with an 87-86 victory over Penn State on Nov. 9...the number of current Gators with 2...They’ve since played against Wake Forest, Auburn, North Carolina State, Duke and NCAA Tournament experience. South Alabama...Included on their roster are former Division I players Broderick Hicks, who played collegiately at Wake Forest, as well as Johnny Parker who spent his college days at 10...the number of current Gators in either Missouri...Jordan Harris has led the EA Sports All-Stars in scoring thus far. their freshmen or sophomore seasons. 11...the number of games Florida has scored 100 or more points in an exhibition game starting lineup under Donovan. Florida Gators (0-0, 0-0 SEC) 41...the number of exhibition wins for the No. Player Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. Hometown PPG/RPG* Gators all-time. They enter tonight’s 10 Christian Drejer F 6-9 228 So. Hallerup, Denmark 3.6/2.4a match-up with a record of 41-13-1 in exhi- 24 David Lee F 6-9 253 Jr. St. Louis, Mo. 11.2/6.8 bition games and have won two straight 42 Bonell Colas C 6-9 225 Sr. Miami, Fla. 4.8/2.7 and seven of eight overall. 44 Matt Walsh G 6-6 205 So. Holland, Pa. 12.2/4.7 23 Ryan Appleby G 6-3 165 Fr. Stanwood, Wash. -- 8,014...the highest attendance for an exhi- bition game. The Gators set the attendance EA Sports All-Stars (0-0) record in last season in a 91-79 victory No. Player Pos. Ht. College over the EA Sports All-Stars. 11 Jordan Harris F 6-6 Cal-Irvine 22 Josh Murray F 6-8 IUPUI 23 Mark Jones F 6-6 Central Florida 21 Ajani Williams C 6-9 Eastern Michigan 12 Broderick Hicks G 6-0 Wake Forest * Based on 2002-03 Stats last time out schedule & It’s been over seven months since the Gators bowed out of the second round of the results NCAA Tournament, falling to a red-hot Michigan State team that ended up in the Elite Eight, 68-46 in Tampa, Fla.... The game ended the collegiate careers for three of the finest Date Opponent Results/Time players to ever wear Gator uniforms, as Matt Bonner, Justin Hamilton and Brett Nelson 11/10 EA Sports All-Stars (Exh.) 7 p.m. 11/18 Team Nike (Exh.) 7 p.m. finished their careers as part of a class that went 100-32 during their four years in 11/25 Montana State 7 p.m. Gainesville...David Lee led the Gators with 16 points, but they couldn’t overcome a Spartan 11/28 Arizona 9 p.m. team that combined to hit 70 percent from the floor in the opening half, building a double- 12/2 Florida A&M 7 p.m. digit lead and never looking back. 12/4 Central Florida 7:30 p.m. 12/6 Stetson Noon 12/10 Maryland 7 p.m. midnight madness 12/13 Louisville Noon 12/20 West Virginia 8:30 p.m. Gator fans celebrated the beginning of basketball season at the University of Florida’s 12/22 Northeastern 7 p.m. annual Midnight Madness Friday night... A crowd of 8,263 fans witnessed the Midnight 12/27 Eastern Kentucky 5 p.m. Madness activities Friday in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center, a building dubbed as the 1/3 Florida State 1 p.m. “House of Horrors” by ESPN Magazine in 1999. Gates opened at 9 p.m. as Gator fans 1/7 South Carolina* 7:30 p.m. 1/10 Tennessee* 1 p.m. poured in, quickly filling the lower bowl of the O’Connell Center... The men’s and women’s 1/17 Vanderbilt* 8 p.m. basketball teams signed autographs for 90 minutes before the pep band, cheerleaders and 1/21 Mississippi State* 8 p.m. Dazzlers performed... The slam dunk contest was won by David Lee who ignited the crowd 1/24 Auburn* 4 p.m. by dunking over head coach Billy Donovan who was seated in a stool in front of the basket. 1/27 Alabama* 8:30 p.m. 1/31 Tennessee* 3 p.m. Lee edged newcomer Mohamed Abukar and special entrant, Vanessa Hayden, of the women’s 2/3 Kentucky* 9 p.m. squad... The men’s team closed with a 10-minutes scrimmage in which the white team of Lee, 2/7 Vanderbilt* 7:30 p.m. Abukar, Matt Walsh, Bonell Colas, Ryan Appleby and Chris Capko edged the blue team 31- 2/14 LSU* 3 p.m. 2/17 Georgia* 9 p.m. 23. 2/21 Ole Miss* 8 p.m. 2/25 South Carolina* 7 p.m. 2/28 Arkansas* 4 p.m. sec media day 3/3 Georgia* 7 p.m. The Gators were picked to finish second in the SEC East and second overall in the SEC to 3/7 Kentucky* Noon reigning champion Kentucky... The Gators have won or shared the SEC Eastern Division 3/11-14 SEC Tournament TBA three of the last four years. In a close vote, Kentucky received 22 first place votes to 3/18-20 NCAA Tournament- 1st/2nd Rounds 3/19-21 NCAA Tournament- 1st/2nd Rounds Florida’s 18...Tennessee was picked to finish third followed by Vanderbilt, Georgia and 3/25-27 NCAA Tournament – Regionals South Carolina...LSU was picked to win the west over Auburn and Mississippi State...The 3/26-38 NCAA Tournament- Regionals Gators host the teams picked to finish in the top three spots in the West this season. 4/3-5 NCAA Tournament – Final Four *Denotes SEC game.Home games in bold. All times EST and David Lee and Anthony Roberson were selected to All-SEC Preseason First Team as subject to change; All games can be heard on the Gator Radio voted on by the media at SEC Media Day on Oct. 29...Lee and Roberson were joined by Network and the athletic department’s official website, Gatorzone.com.; For ticket information call the UF ticket of- Matt Freije of Vanderbilt, Jaime Lloreda of LSU and Gerald Fitch of Kentucky on the First fice at (352) 375-4683 ext. 6800. Team ballot...Lee finished tied for second in the balloting for Preseason Player of the Year, as Matt Freije garnered 13 votes to Lee’s 10...Matt Walsh did not place on either the First or Second Team but still received a vote for Player of the Year. 2002-03 team highlights and milestones the UF finished second in the SEC East despite an impressive 12-4 record...UF won 20-plus polls games this season for the fifth consecutive year, a first in school history...Florida reached Florida Week-by-Week its fifth straight NCAA Tournament appearance, another first in school history...On Febru- AP ESPN/Coaches’ ary 3 the Gators reached No.