Florida is rewarding nationwide championship-winning coach Todd Golden with a contract extension that may pay him $40.5 million via the 2030-31 season.
Golden, 39, turned the youngest coach to win a title since 37-year-old Jim Valvano when the Gators beat Houston 65-63 within the championship recreation of the NCAA Event on April 7. In three seasons in Florida, he has a 76-33 file, together with 36-4 in 2024-25.
“Todd has carried out an unbelievable job getting Florida males’s basketball again the place it belongs,” athletic director Scott Stricklin mentioned. “We believed in his imaginative and prescient, his aggressive nature and his fashionable strategy to the sport again in 2022, and he has validated that perception in a comparatively brief time and helped create recollections of a lifetime for one more era of Gator followers.”
The Gators received this system’s third nationwide title of their sixth journey prime the Remaining 4. The opposite two championships got here beneath Billy Donovan in 2006 and 2007.
“The College of Florida is an establishment that has the assets, help, and folks in place to compete and win nationwide championships,” Golden mentioned. “I’m so appreciative of each participant and employees member who’ve been vital to the success we have skilled right here.”
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