GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we break down how the Florida Gators basketball fared on Selection Sunday on Sunday.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre are joined by Eric Fawcett who breaks down the Gators match-up in the tournament as Florida earned the number six seed in the East Region.

Andrew and Nick ask Eric the tough questions about the Gators after they took a tough loss in the SEC tournament to Arkansas on Friday.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre, with our man, Eric. We’re joining you guys after Selection Sunday. It’s one of the popular days. TBS just ruined that day for us all.

Nick:                         That was pretty maddening to release 69 teams alphabetically. Just give me the bracket. Just say, here are the teams. Here is when they’ll play and who they’ll play against. Here you go.

Andrew:                 Then break it down. I don’t need to hear it alphabetically.

Eric:                          At least we’re lucky, Florida got announced pretty quick what bracket they’re in. For those of you listening, the Gators were announced in their bracket, and like four minutes later we’re recording this. No need for us to stick around. We just went right to it. The bracket is actually still being announced as we record this, but luckily, we know where Florida is playing.

Nick:                         I was fully mentally preparing myself for Florida to be the 68th team named, and we’d be sitting here until like 8:00 on Sunday night waiting to talk about it.

Eric:                          Can you imagine? Let’s announce every other matchup first. We’ll do alphabetically, but just say Florida last. How about Florida getting booed when they weren’t even doing seeds? They were just alphabetically saying what teams had at large bids, and Florida got booed by the old Atlanta crowd there, the 23 people that are there. That was kind of funny. Got a chuckle out of that.

Andrew:                 I don’t know about this whole live deal. To me it just screams TV advertising. It’s retarded, but that runs the business. Florida gets the six seed in the East region, will take on the winner of the play-in game of Saint Bonaventure and UCLA in a Thursday bracket out in Dallas, Texas. Overall, I think after Friday’s performance we all probably agree that Florida was going to get a six-seed heading into Sunday, right?

Eric:                          That’s what they deserved. It’s really not too bad. It’s crazy. The difference between like a one and a two seed, or a two and a three seed, that is kind of big difference. Once you get to the difference between a five or a six seed, it isn’t a huge deal. The difference between playing the 11th and the 12th team is not a major deal. Again, the whole bracket hasn’t even been announced yet, because we are recording this as it happens. Loyola Chicago is an eleven seed, and Davidson is a twelve. The difference between those two teams is not that large. The difference between a five and six for Gators is not a huge deal.

Andrew:                 If you’re Florida, if you’re lucky enough to make it to the Sweet Sixteen, would you rather play Villanova or Purdue?

Eric:                          That’s a great point too. I’ll say Purdue every time.

Andrew:                 Yeah. Let’s just look at this. Obviously, Florida’s opponent is not known yet, because of the Saint Bonaventure-UCLA play-in game on Tuesday. Eric, quick, I know you had a chance to briefly look at this. You told me that you thought a surprise could happen in this game. What do you see this game?

Eric:                          I mean, when you see the big brand-name UCLA, and then you see Saint Bonaventure, you’re probably thinking power conference team, Florida is going to see UCLA. If I was doing one of the brackets where you pick who you think is goi...