Our main goal is to win the national championship. It'll be a lot tougher with everyone gunning for us. This is the bridge to the future, this 2000-2001 Florida basketball team. Some look at last year's run to the national title game and blow it off as a one-year fluke. Writers have even suggested that the departure of Mike Miller and Donnell Harvey ends any hopes Florida had of becoming a real power, a national team.
National teams are there every year.
National teams don't talk about whether they're are in the Big Dance or not. They always go. Florida doesn't always go. When they went to the Sweet 16 and followed it up with last year's remarkable run, the Gators put themselves in position to make school history. Only once has a Gator basketball team been to three straight NCAA Tournaments.