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National Basketball Association
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Florida 90, Rider 69
When: 7:00 PM ET, Friday, December 9, 2011
Where: Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, Florida
Officials: # Tom Eades, # Gary Maxwell, # Bert Smith
Attendance: 3478

Kenny Boynton scored 26 points and Bradley Beal added 18 as No. 12 Florida cruised past Rider 90-69 in Jacksonville, Fla., on Friday.

Patric Young collected 12 points and nine rebounds and Erving Walker chipped in 12 points for the Gators (7-2), who return to stronger competition against No. 25 Florida next weekend.

Florida was coming off a loss to No. 3 Syracuse and an overtime victory against Arizona. The Gators had a much easier time with the Broncos (1-9), who could not match the speed or physicality of the SEC players.

Florida never trailed and used a 16-5 run early in the first half to break the game open. Boynton buried a 3-pointer and Young capped the spurt with a dunk in transition off a feed from Walker.

Beal hit two 3-pointers and Walker added another in an 11-2 burst to start the second half, stretching the lead to 54-29 and sending the Gators into cruise control. Boynton, Beal and Walker combined to hit 12 3-pointers and Florida went 14-of-33 from beyond the arc.

Jeff Jones scored 18 points to lead Rider, which has dropped five straight.
Top Game Performances
 
Rider   Florida
Jeff Jones 20 Scoring Kenny Boynton 26
Brandon Penn 4 Assists Will Yeguete 5
Anthony Myles 8 Rebounds Patric Young 10
Jeff Jones 2 Free Throws Made Kenny Boynton 3
Eddie Mitchell 2 Steals Casey Prather 2
Anthony Myles 2 Blocks Scottie Wilbekin 1
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Points FG% 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA Assists Rebounds Blocks Steals Turnovers
Rider 69 49.1 8-19 5-10 14 30 5 4 13
Florida 90 49.3 14-33 6-10 25 33 1 7 6