The Florida basketball team will enter Tuesday night's SEC opener at Alabama with no significant physical injuries, but struggling with illness that has run rampant recently.

"We’re battling a lot of illnesses right now,'' UF coach Billy Donovan said. "We have no physical injuries like sprained ankles or tweaked knees or anything like that. (Assistant coach) Rob Lanier missed a practice and a game (High Point) with strep throat.  We’ve got a lot of illness going through our team and I don’t think that’s uncharacteristic any time of the year. I think everybody is dealing with it and we’ve got to deal with it, colds and flus.''

Freshman Chandler Parsons was scheduled to sit out Monday's practice, but isn't expected to miss the game.

"I don’t even know what he has right now,'' Donovan said. "I just know he’s not in school and our trainer took him over there to see the doctor and they are going to run some tests and try to find out a lot more. I don’t anticipate him not playing or not traveling.''