Florida 栄誉（を受ける）s Billy Donovan, 大打撃を与えるs Vanderbilt 84-66
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Florida opened and の近くにd the first half with 3-pointers, a fitting 尊敬の印 on a night the program 栄誉（を受ける）d former coach Billy Donovan.
Noah Locke 得点する／非難する／２０d 19 points thanks mostly to a season-high six treys, Kerry Blackshear Jr. 追加するd 15 and the Gators 大打撃を与えるd Vanderbilt 84-66 on Saturday after they celebrated 指名するing the 法廷，裁判所 after Donovan.
Donovan's parents, his wife, their four children, nearly 30 of his former players and a few of his former assistants were on 手渡す for the 儀式. The Gators 扱う／治療するd them to a blowout.
The 54-year-old Donovan thanked all of them, along with his former boss and the Gainesville community, for helping him reach this career pinnacle.
"When you look 負かす／撃墜する on the 法廷，裁判所, see your 指名する 負かす／撃墜する there 同様に because you're just as much as part of it as everybody else," Donovan said.
Florida (16-9, 8-4 Southeastern 会議／協議会) used a 17-2 run 中途の through the first half to turn a six-point lead into a laugher. Vanderbilt coach Jerry Stackhouse had seen enough.
Stackhouse was 排除する／（飛行機などから）緊急脱出するd in the 病弱なing seconds of the half after getting 連続した technical fouls. He felt like Scottie 吊りくさび' foul on Matthew Moyer should have been called 極悪の. Stackhouse ran の上に the 法廷，裁判所 to 抗議する and was 攻撃する，衝突する with a second technical.
Stackhouse was wearing an all-green, "gator 殺し屋" 控訴, but he changed into Vandy warm-ups after the game.
"My gator 控訴´s gone," he said. "That was supposed to be the gator 殺し屋. It just didn´t work out that way."
Florida coach マイク White had a different description for Stackhouse's 控訴.
"It was the color of a lot of money he made for a long time," White quipped.
Vanderbilt 追跡するd 48-19 at the break, and Stackhouse 定評のある having to play Florida in 前線 of a sold-out （人が）群がる on Donovan's night created a daunting 環境. 現在の NBA players like Bradley Beal and Al Horford were watching courtside, and Ch ris Chiozza even slipped into Florida's 密談する／（身体を）寄せ集める late in the game during a timeout.
"We didn´t 選ぶ the schedule," Stackhouse said. "You could use it as 公式発表-board 構成要素 later on 負かす／撃墜する the road. But it´s just one of those things, snowball, a lot of excitement and a lot energy for what was going on with him and rightfully so."
Andrew Nembhard started the 猛攻撃 with a 3 on the 開始 所有／入手, and Tre Mann 攻撃する，衝突する one just before the buzzer to cap Florida's romping 開始 20 minutes. The long-範囲 発射s were a nice touch considering Donovan called the arc college basketball's "広大な／多数の／重要な equalizer" after he took over the program in 1996.
The Gators finished 10 of 20 from 3-point 範囲 against the Commodores (9-16, 1-11), who have dropped four straight in the series.
Saben 物陰／風下 led Vandy with 23 points, seven 回復するs and four 補助装置s. He also had four turnovers. Scotty Pippen Jr. 追加するd 12 points and six 補助装置s.
Florida led by as many as 32 中途の through the second half, 許すing much of the （人が）群がる to 長，率いる home 早期に. Fans were there mostly to 認める Donovan.
Donovan put Florida on the college basketball 地図／計画する. He left Gainesville in 2015 after two 国家の 選手権s, four trips to the Final Four and 14 NCAA Tournament 外見s. In short, he made hoops 事柄 at the football-first school.
His 署名 was placed at both ends, between the 3-point line and the 重要な.
"It's just really emotional for me, and I'm really humbled," Donovan said. "I'm just thankful that I was around such 広大な／多数の／重要な people. I think that's what it speaks to is the 質 of people that I was fortunate enough to be around here at Florida."
BIG PICTURE
Vanderbilt: The Commodores lost for the 31st time in their last 32 会議／協議会 games. They never had a chance in this one. Florida jumped out 早期に and never let up.
Florida: The Gators have won four of their last five to かもしれない 海難救助 their NCAA Tournament hopes. But they will need to 勝利，勝つ a few more 負かす／撃墜する the stretch to make the tournament for the fourth 連続した year under Donovan's 交替／補充, マイク White.
UP NEXT
Vanderbilt: Plays at Tennessee on Tuesday. The Volunteers won the first 会合 66-45 in Nashville last month, their fifth 連続した victory in the series.
Florida: Hosts Arkansas on Tuesday. It´s the final game before the Gators begin a daunting stretch that 含むs Kentucky (twice), LSU, Tennessee and Georgia.
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