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Florida basketball defeated Tennessee to pick up its second straight top 25 win. Here's what happened in the Gators' win over the Volunteers.

Well, that was ugly. Again. For the second year in a row, the Vols went down to Gainesville and got their doors blown off, this time falling to the defending national champion Gators 91-67. Tennessee was led in scoring by Nate Ament with 17 points.

The Florida Gators are back inside the AP top 25, landing at No. 19 in the newest version that was released on Monday. That comes after back-to-back SEC-ranked wins over the Tennessee Volunteers and the Georgia Bulldogs in Exactech Arena.

Boogie Fland scored a season-high 23, Rueben Chinyelu dominated the paint and Florida handled No. 21 Tennessee 91-67 to extend its home winning streak to 15.

Florida (10-5, 1-1 SEC) will have its work cut out for it in its upcoming matchup against No. 22 Tennessee (11-4, 11-4, 1-1). Both teams enter the matchup as elite rebounding teams as the Gators and Vols represent the top two offensive rebounding teams by percentage, with UT's 45.2% rate exceeding Florida's 44.2%.

Tennessee basketball head coach Rick Barnes kept it real after losing to Florida, saying that "they kicked our butts."

No. 21 Tennessee plays the Florida Gators after Ja'Kobi Gillespie scored 34 points in the Volunteers' 85-71 win against the Texas Longhorns.