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Video + GIFs: Florida's Casey Prather baptizes a lost soul, Mike Rosario tricks FGCU

Soon enough, someone will tell defenders to not jump with Casey Prather. Mike Rosario will never stop being Mike Rosario, though.

Video of Casey Prather's monstrous dunk on Florida Gulf Coast's Christophe Varidel in the open court comes to us via Only Gators, and it's wonderful.

The best part of Prather's dunk is the sound, so that doesn't transfer to GIF form, but here's the GIF in screen size...

...and in a smaller, smoother size.

Of course, that wasn't the only spectacular play of Florida's night, as Mike Rosario bounced the ball off an FGCU player's back from midcourt and raced in for the dunk. There is, as you might imagine, video of this.

And there is also the GIF.

Obviously, I love the chutzpah — sheer Jersey City swag, really — that compelled Rosario to try this, but I saw FGCU players' backs turned to Scottie Wilbekin on baseline inbounds plays all night, and I was kind of surprised that he never tried it.

Two other amusing things to note: Billy Donovan yanked Rosario at the timeout that FGCU called right after that dunk, but did reinsert him less than a minute later, and both of these plays came at the expense of Christophe Varidel.