GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- The Florida basketball team hasn't strayed from its standard uniform combinations in well over a year.
Nike is set to change that.
The Gators are one of eight college hoops programs Nike has tabbed to wear its specially crafted Hyper Elite Disruption uniforms for an upcoming rivalry game. Florida will don the sleek and unique look Feb. 28 when the Gators face Southeastern Conference foe Tennessee at the O'Connell Center.
The other team's wearing HEDs will be the men's teams from Kentucky, Duke, Syracuse, Arizona and Oregon, plus the women's teams from Connecticut and Baylor.
According to the Nike news release, "Each school's home uniform will feature a white base with school-specific color lettering and a 26-degree speed graphic of an iconic symbol of each school across the side of the game short. The 26-degree angle of each school's graphic was inspired by the chevron on the classic Nike Windrunner track jacket that debuted in 1978. Each graphic represents a distinctive basketball point of view, based on the roughly 1,000 directional changes, or "cuts" that a player might make in the course of a game."
It's always kind of cool -- for the players and the fans -- when a team throws on a uniform combination.
In 2012, Nike rolled a line of Platinum Elite uniforms for teams with recent NCAA championships. The Gators were in that mix also -- and Tennessee was the opponent.
We'll soon see Kasey Hill and friends in the next.
