Freshman guard Carlie Needles planted her left foot to cut right, but she never completed the move.
Needles crumpled to the floor untouched after suffering tears to the anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in her left knee.
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Needles is not the first Gator that has lost a season due to ACL woes.
Sophomore Lily Svete and senior Ndidi Madu, both forwards, also took medical redshirts during their respective freshman seasons due to ACL injuries.
When Needles originally injured her knee, she thought she had merely hyperextended it and that ice treatments would be the cure.
Madu’s situation was similar.
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