Florida

United States

Founded

1915

Arena

Exactech Arena at Stephen C. O · 10,151 cap

The Florida Gators men's basketball team represents the University of Florida in the sport of basketball. The Gators compete in NCAA Division I's Southeastern Conference (SEC). Home games are played in the Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. The University of Florida's first basketball team took the court in 1915, but success was scarce for many years. Florida's basketball program finally found consistent success under head coach Billy Donovan, who was hired in 1996. In nineteen years as Florida's coach, Donovan led the program to seven of its eight Southeastern Conference (SEC) regular season championships, all four SEC tournament championships, fourteen of twenty-two NCAA Tournament appearances, four out of five Final Four appearances, and back-to-back national championships in 2006 and 2007.

Miami

United States

Founded

0

Arena

Watsco Center · 8,000 cap

The Miami Hurricanes men's basketball team represents the University of Miami in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The team began play in 1926, but was dropped by the University of Miami in 1971. In 1985, fourteen years later, the Hurricanes resumed play and joined the Big East Conference in 1991, winning the Big East regular season title in 2000. In 2004, in conjunction with the rest of the Miami athletic program, the team moved to the ACC. In 2012–2013, the team won its first regular season ACC championship as well as its first ACC tournament championship. The team has reached the NCAA Championship's "Sweet 16" three times (1999–2000, 2012–2013, and 2015–2016). In the 2014–2015 season, they reached the final of the National Invitation Tournament .