{"id":287831,"date":"2025-10-09T00:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/287831\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:15:11","slug":"florida-nil-partner-offers-gator-fans-opportunity-to-own-piece-of-national-championship-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/287831\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida NIL partner offers Gator fans opportunity to own piece of national championship court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida NIL partner Florida Victorious is offering the biggest of Gator basketball fans the chance to own a piece of the hardwood where UF won it all in April.<\/p>\n<p>Walter Clayton Jr. was the star of stars for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/florida\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> when the Gators captured their 3rd national championship with a thrilling victory over Houston. The date was April 7, and the place was San Antonio, and that\u2019s what Florida Victorious\u2019 focus is on now. Florida fans will now have a chance to own a piece of that special court in San Antonio where a championship was brought home to Gainesville.<\/p>\n<p>After UF won back-to-back national titles in 2006 and 2007, it took 18 years for a 3rd championship to be won by the Gators, and it took a lot of unbelievable shot-making by Clayton and his teammates. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>What Florida Victorious is doing is truly one of a kind,\u201d UF junior forward Thomas Haugh said. \u201cThey\u2019re giving Gator fans the opportunity to own a real piece of our championship court \u2014 a piece of history \u2014 while directly supporting the student-athletes who made those memories possible. It\u2019s an incredible way to celebrate our success and invest in the future of Florida basketball.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Florida Victorious, \u201cevery board, every painted line (and) every inch of the historic court is being preserved\u201d for Gators fans. The offer is the first time a national championship court has been offered to its fan base. According to the NIL partner, every dollar that\u2019s raised through the raffle entries and through sales will go to supporting Florida Victorious and Florida athletes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>This isn\u2019t just wood and paint \u2014 it\u2019s the very floor where the Gators made history, where the Gators cut down the nets, and where a new chapter of Florida basketball pride was written,\u201d Florida Victorious CEO Erick Reasoner said. \u201cThanks to an incredible gift and the support from Gator Athletics and Gator boosters, we have the privilege to share that moment with Gator Nation in a tangible way \u2014 and every piece sold will directly support our student-athletes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Florida Victorious has partnered in this special offer to UF fans with Artsman and Goldin, which will feature it in their Elite Auction spotlight in December.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, Gators fans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridavictorious.com\/feeds\/florida-victorious-offering-fans-a-chance-to-own-history?detail=custom_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can go here<\/a> to learn all about this special championship offer. <\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rounded-full mx-auto sm:m-0 grayscale aspect-square perfmatters-lazy\" alt=\"Cory Nightingale\" width=\"88\" height=\"88\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02813c85f5e62581de7be2248f57d8cb5ea2cea992916a88326e37d4e7983065\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm mt-4\">Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida NIL partner Florida Victorious is offering the biggest of Gator basketball fans the chance to own a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":287832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-287831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115341330304634780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}