No. 1 Florida records largest March Madness blowout since 1963 with 59-point demolition of No. 16 Prairie View A&M
The game was tied 15-15 after seven minutes or so. Florida scored 45 of the next 51 points.
In a Friday slate of March Madness games that went chalk to the extreme, No. 1 Florida’s dominance still stood out. The Gators crushed No.
16 seed Prairie View A&M by the score of 114-55 to open their NCAA tournament campaign. At 59 points, that’s the second-largest margin of victory in March Madness history, and you have to go back six decades to find the largest. Draft your Yahoo Fantasy Baseball team for the 2026 MLB Season One of the Gators’ more enormous fans approved.
This Florida fan was BUILT for March Madness 😲💪 (via @CBSSportsCBB ) pic. twitter. com/cUiZWNFGkm — Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) March 21, 2026 The record-holder remains Loyola Chicago’s 111-42 win over Tennessee Tech (69 points) in 1963, the tournament in which the Ramblers won a championship with a ground-breaking all-Black lineup.
Funnily enough, Prairie View A&M was on the bad end of the previous second-largest blowout, a 110-52 loss to Kansas (58 points) in 1998. Florida’s historic win was actually close for the first seven minutes or so. Prairie View, which reached the game by defeating Lehigh in the First Four, never led, but it did had the game tied at 15-15 at one point in the first half.