They had to do a lot wrong for Tommy not to show up and be a Gator the next day,” Ryan Haugh, Thomas’ father, said Saturday on the Chase Center floor. “That was his lifelong dream. He bled orange and blue while the rest of Pennsylvania was bleeding blue and white.

The water got choppy, but the Florida Gators climbed back from a double-digit lead to secure their first Final Four appearance in over a decade.