However, the Gators weren't college basketball's most-improved high-major team last season. That title goes to Louisville.

The Manatee County Sheriff's Office says four students have been arrested in connection to threats made against Parrish Community High School.

Tory N. Parrish covers retail and small business for Newsday. She has worked at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Observer-Dispatch in Utica, N.Y.