Or good look alikes.........me and my Haitian friend Pierre would take college and pro basketball...............he saw a final...........like in 1971............in Cole Field House........at UMD.........College Park......................where UCLA beat someone...........back when the Wizard of Westwood coached...................................

I think this Florida State team won it all back when George Mason made the Final Four...................our George Mason of Fairfax county, Virginia........

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Billy Donovan

• Title

  Head Men's Basketball Coach

Head Coach Billy Donovan
19 Years at Florida (Record following 2014-15: 467-185, .715)
21 Years overall (Record following 2014-15: 502-206, .709)
2006 and 2007 National Champions
2000, 2001, 2007, 2011, 2013 and 2014 SEC Champions
2000, 2001, 2002, 2007 and 2011 SEC East Champions
2005, 2006, 2007 and 2014 SEC Tournament Champions
2000 NCAA runner-up
2000, 2006, 2007 and 2014 Final Four
2011, 2013 and 2014 SEC Coach of the Year

Over the course of 19 seasons, Billy Donovan has taken a program that previously experienced small pockets of success and has made history.

• Two National Championships and three appearances in the title game.
• Four Final Fours.
• Six SEC Championships.
• Three consecutive SEC Tournament titles from 2005-07 and adding a fourth in 2014.
• The No. 1 ranking in the nation in five different seasons, including starting and finishing the 2006-07 season in that spot.
• Sixteen straight 20-win seasons, three 30-win seasons, including school records of 36 wins and a 30-game winning streak in 2013-14.
• Seventeen consecutive postseason appearances.

There was a time when any of these goals seemed unattainable for the University of Florida basketball program – until March 27, 1996, when Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley hired the up-and-coming Donovan who has turned the Gators into a perennial national power.

Under Donovan, the once unattainable goals of the program have become a reality, as he has taken the University of Florida and established it among a very short list of elite programs in the nation. He has joined the greats in his profession and elevated the University of Florida to be mentioned among the great programs in college basketball.