{"id":38192,"date":"2025-04-08T04:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/florida-roar-back-to-break-houston-hearts-and-capture-third-ncaa-title\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T04:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:20:14","slug":"florida-roar-back-to-break-houston-hearts-and-capture-third-ncaa-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/florida-roar-back-to-break-houston-hearts-and-capture-third-ncaa-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida roar back to break Houston hearts and capture third NCAA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Gators erase 12-point deficit to beat Cougars 65-63<\/li>\n<li>Cougars denied again after near misses in 1983, 1984<\/li>\n<li>UF win third NCAA championship, first since 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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 Houston\u2019s campus, was a deafening sea of scarlet red.<\/p>\n<p>And yet Florida found a way. In one of the most dramatic NCAA men\u2019s championship games in recent memory, the Gators and Walter Clayton Jr overcame Houston\u2019s suffocating defense to pull off an astonishing 65\u201363 victory on Monday night \u2013 a national title game thriller not decided until Florida\u2019s own defense sealed it at the buzzer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/07\/florida-houston-march-madness-final-ncaa-tournament\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gators erase 12-point deficit to beat Cougars 65-63 Cougars denied again after near misses in 1983, 1984 UF win third NCAA championship, first since 2007 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 Houston\u2019s campus, was a deafening &#8230; <a title=\"Florida roar back to break Houston hearts and capture third NCAA title\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/florida-roar-back-to-break-houston-hearts-and-capture-third-ncaa-title\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida roar back to break Houston hearts and capture third NCAA title\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}