Florida roar back to break Houston hearts and capture third NCAA title
View image in fullscreen Florida guard Walter Clayton Jr and center Micah Handlogten embrace after the final buzzer. Photograph: Brynn Anderson/AP https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/apr/07/florida-houston-march-madness-final-ncaa-tournament Gators erase 12-point deficit to beat Cougars 65-63 UF win third NCAA championship, first since 2007 Cougars rue ‘incomprehensible’ collapse in defeat Bryan Armen Graham at the Alamodome Tue 8 Apr 2025 05.22 CEST The Gators looked cooked. Down 12. Their All-American guard scoreless . The crowd inside a hangar-like 70,000-seat football stadium, just 198 miles down the road from the University of Houston campus, was a deafening sea of scarlet red. Houston rue ‘incomprehensible’ collapse to hand Florida NCAA title Read more And yet Florida found a way. In one of the most dramatic NCAA men’s championship games in recent memory, the Gators and Walter Clayton Jr overcame Houston’s suffocating defense to pull off an astonishing 65–63 victory on ...