By james art 
Gainesville, Florida-before Florida Gates’ third ranking against South Carolina, guard Alia Martin was cleared to play after dealing with a hip injury in the last two weeks.
Martin, who has missed the last two hip index finger games, is second in the team with 15.4 points while leading Gators with 1.7 theft per game. It was not indicated in the team availability report.
The former FAU transfer suffered his injury as he dived for a free ball in the first half in the victory of the team over Vanderbilt on February 4th. Although he returned in the second half against the Commodors, ending with eight points and four assists, he did not play in the team victories over # 1 Auburn and Mississippi State.
Recently, Martin also started dealing with a belly problem, but it was “close to return,” chief coach Todd Golden told reporters on Friday.
Despite Martin’s return, Florida will still be a short hand on Saturday.
Gators will be left without ahead Sam Alexis and ahead/Center Alex Kondon for the Saturday match, Golden announced. Alexis’ reflections on not playing, have not been revealed, and Condon continues to recover from a low ankle dislocation that has been injured in Tuesday’s victory over Mississippi.
He is expected to miss the next one to two weeks, although Florida will see the return of the center of Michai Handogs to help increase the depth of the front vessel of Gators.
Initially, Handlogten had planned a medical red shirt after an ankle injury suffered last season before playing with the idea of returning in January. Initially, he chose to stay on his medical red shirt before he was outraged on Friday, he returned.
The advice between Gators and Gamecocks Inside Exactech Arena is at 8:30 pm with a TV coating at SEC Network.