WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump hosted the Florida Gators males’s basketball staff on the White House on Wednesday, following his championship on the National College Athletics Association (NCAA) event final month.
The Gators defeated the Houston Cougars within the NCAA Finals 65-53 and emerged because the 64-team event champion recognized to basketball fanatics as “Big Dance.”
Trump stated his staff was “nice to welcome them” to the White House in the course of the celebration within the East Room.
“Congratulations to Todd Golden, a really wonderful younger head coach, for the entire work he did, the season and the inspiration he gave to those gamers,” Trump stated.
The President shared the second with a number of gamers who made essential contributions each within the Conference Championship-winning SEC event and within the nationwide championship recreation towards Houston.
One such second got here with Gators Guard Alijah Martin. He sealed the staff’s victory with two key free throws on the crunch time of the nationwide championship recreation.
“Are you nervous? I all the time say, ‘Here’s a man, he must sink. That’s not that straightforward,” Trump joked.
“No,” Martin smiled and responded successfully to the information.
“That’s fairly good,” Trump replied.
“Yeah, when you did not sink, you would not be right here now and nobody would name you once more,” he added, drawing laughs from the safety guard and the room.
At the top of the ceremony, Golden offered Trump with a customized #47 Gators basketball jersey and a basketball signed by the staff.
In his remarks, the coach emphasised that the staff is “meritocratic,” equating it with Trump’s imaginative and prescient for America.
“President, I wish to take into consideration our applications in addition to the best way we consider the US. We are meritocratic. We are actually, actually, actually arduous work.”
“No matter how you’re, wherever you come from, when you put your staff first and win, we’ll play you. And we’ve got a program stuffed with it. Great angle, nice work ethic and most significantly, we wish to be on the University of Florida,” he added.