Florida basketball coach Todd Golden received some credit at SEC Basketball Media Day on Wednesday, Oct. 15.

Golden , a former director of operations at Auburn , was praised by now-first-year head coach Steven Pearl, who took over the job after his father, Bruce Pearl, announced his retirement a few weeks ago.

“He was the one that brought analytics into our program when we first got to Auburn,” Pearl said. “That was when KenPom was really one of the only analytically driven databases out there. Now, there’s like 57 of them.”

Pearl also recognized some of the former assistant coaches he played under at Tennessee, including Steve Forbes, now the head coach at Wake Forest, and Jason Shay, the former head coach at East Tennessee State.

However, according to Pearl, his and Golden’s time

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