Golden, players discuss Florida's NCAA Tournament first-round rout

It was a historic Friday night for the Florida Gators , who absolutely destroyed the Prairie View A&M Panthers in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, 114-55, in what was the largest margin of victory ever between a 1 and 16 seed and the second largest in the history of March Madness. Todd Golden's team went wire-to-wire in this one, using a 17-0 run to break open a tie game early in the first half, along with another pair of double-digit scoring streaks to take a 39-point lead into halftime. Prairie View did not stand a chance against the Orange and Blue in the second half, which cruised to a 59-point triumph in Tampa.

After the game, Golden, along with the game's leading scorer Boogie Fland and Rueben Chinyelu, who notched his 19th double-double this year, talked to the media about what transpired on Friday night. Here is everything they had to say. Todd Golden's opening statement "Really pleased with the way our players performed tonight.

I thought we did a really good job of just executing and playing with great intent from start to finish. We didn't do a good job the first couple minutes guarding the 3-point line, and once we righted that, we accomplished what we needed to, played with great intent offensively, 29 assists, only seven turnovers, controlled the glass the way we hoped to, and just played really efficient basketball on both sides. " Did you have a renewed sense of, 'We've got to get this done?

' after SEC Tournament loss? RUEBEN CHINYELU : "I would just say, just coming off that, we didn't play our best. That wasn't us.