{"id":75207,"date":"2025-07-19T11:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T11:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75207\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T11:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T11:08:14","slug":"2025-bannies-nominations-ucf-mens-team-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75207\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Bannies Nominations: UCF Men\u2019s Team of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"uzE0Rr\">It\u2019s time for our 2025 Black &amp; Gold Banneret Awards! This week we present our nominees for each award honoring the best people, moments and performances from your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackandgoldbanneret.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCF Knights<\/a> in the 2024-25 athletic year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"XP9urN\">Our staff has chosen the nominees for each award. We will then vote on them this week, and you the fans, can vote as well in the poll below. The winner of the fan vote counts as one vote, and in the event of a tie, the award goes to the winner of the fan vote.<\/p>\n<p>  Poll<br \/>\n  Which is the 2025 UCF Men\u2019s Team of the Year?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-poll-option-result=\"3610217\">\n<p>\n              0%\n            <\/p>\n<p>               Men\u2019s Basketball<\/p>\n<p>              (0 votes)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-poll-option-result=\"3610218\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        0 votes total<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"#poll-vote\" class=\"back-to-vote\">Vote Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s Team of the Year Nominees<br \/>\nMen\u2019s Basketball<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"   alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" data-upload-width=\"7905\" width=\"7905\" height=\"5273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6Y3A4812_Enhanced_NR.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Brenna Johnson<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"e4uIaR\">In a lot of ways, it wasn\u2019t a great year for men\u2019s basketball, which probably raises the question \u201cWhy are they on this list?\u201d The answer to the question isn\u2019t simple, and it takes a true eye test to see why. This is a team that, despite losing seven games in a row in conference play, was neck and neck with some of the best teams in the country. Then, with an incomplete roster, got within one game of winning the inaugural College Basketball Crown, all while producing memorable moments and heart-pounding atmospheres along the way. If we can avoid the myopic lens of wins and losses, we can see this team for what it was: Fun. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Men\u2019s Tennis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"UDteJl\">It was a historic season for the Men\u2019s Tennis team. It hosted an NCAA Regional and won it, advancing to the Sweet 16 for the first time ever. It won four matches against Top 10 ranked opponents. Going by their season-ending rankings the Knights beat #2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frogsowar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TCU Horned Frogs<\/a> en route to the Big 12 Championship game, upset #6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landgrantholyland.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ohio State<\/a> in the ITA Indoor Championships, quashing their 2024 title defense, and beat #11 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdesertswarm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona Wildcats<\/a> twice, once in Tuscan and once in Orlando. The Knights started their season with eight straight wins, beating out the program record set the season before, and finished it with 23 wins total, beating out 2021 for the most in the D1 era. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for our 2025 Black &amp; Gold Banneret Awards! 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