{"id":41389,"date":"2025-05-18T16:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/41389\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T16:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:48:11","slug":"florida-makes-final-decision-on-white-house-visit-after-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/41389\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Makes Final Decision on White House Visit After National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Gators recently earned the college basketball national championship, following an incredible run in the NCAA Tournament. <\/p>\n<p>Florida entered the NCAA Tournament as a No. 1 seed after winning the SEC Tournament title.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>They played in what was widely considered the best conference in college basketball, featuring teams like Tennessee, Auburn, Kentucky and more, but the Gators stood atop the conference standings.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the NCAA Tournament title with a 65-63 victory over the Houston Cougars in San Antonio, Florida had a decision to make: whether or not they would make the trip to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Florida accepted the invitation after the season and according to Jon Rothstein at CBS Sports, the Gators&#8217; official visit has been scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Florida will be visiting President Donald Trump and the White House on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Florida head coach Todd Golden spoke on the opportunity to visit the White House after the Gators won the national championship.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Golden mentioned that he&#8217;s &#8220;excited&#8221; about the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been told we&#8217;re going to the White House, so I&#8217;m pretty excited about that,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/florida-reaches-decision-white-house-180246676.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Golden said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden said<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;ll have to get everybody back together to be able to go do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Florida Gators head coach Todd Golden.Bob Donnan-Imagn Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"654\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/d223c775760be1b6a12e172215caece4.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Florida Gators head coach Todd Golden.Bob Donnan-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the season, the Florida Gators were led by Naismith Player of the Year finalist Walter Clayton Jr.<\/p>\n<p>During his final college basketball season, Clayton posted 18.3 points, 3.7 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>Clayton played his last two seasons at the collegiate level with the Gators, having begun his career at Iona in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In his four-year college basketball career, Clayton averaged 15.2 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/hunter-dickinson-reveals-major-personal-144255336.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Hunter Dickinson Reveals Major Personal News on Sunday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Hunter Dickinson Reveals Major Personal News on Sunday<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/deion-sanders-reveals-exciting-personal-150534463.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Deion Sanders Reveals Exciting Personal News on Sunday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Deion Sanders Reveals Exciting Personal News on Sunday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Gators recently earned the college basketball national championship, following an incredible run in the NCAA Tournament.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,420,950,2811,6899,231,772,1400,1544,951,11741],"class_list":{"0":"post-41389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-gators","12":"tag-houston-cougars","13":"tag-jon-rothstein","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-basketball","16":"tag-ncaa-tournament","17":"tag-ncaab","18":"tag-walter-clayton","19":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114529861973052156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}