Gainesville, FL -- (Sports Network) - Dan Werner scored 17 points on 6-of-11 shooting to lead the Florida Gators to a convincing 81-58 victory over the Bradley Braves in the 2008 O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic.

Nick Calathes added 13 points and seven rebounds, while Walter Hodge also had 17 points in the win for Florida (2-0), which started off its season with an 80-58 win over Toledo. Chandler Parsons had 10 rebounds to go along with four points for the 19th-ranked Gators.

Florida went 14-of-32 from three-point range in the win.

Dodie Dunson scored 15 points to lead the Braves (1-1), who were coming off a win over Illinois-Chicago. Chris Roberts scored 13 points, while Sam Singh added six points and seven rebounds off the bench.

Bradley kept it close early, and led by five but consecutive treys from Hodge gave Florida a one-point lead. Those shots helped spark a 19-0 run by the Gators with Hodge accounting for 14 of those points.

Calathes sank a deep three as the buzzer sounded to end the half, and the Gators entered the second up comfortably, 42-25.

The Braves got hot in the beginning of the second half, with a 13-3 run in the first 3 1/2 minutes to climb within eight.

Up by 11 later in the half, the Gators went on a 16-2 burst to jump out to a 70-49 cushion. Florida never looked back at that point and cruised to the victory.

Game Notes

Bradley won the only other meeting between the schools, 70-65, in 1970...Florida is 28-2 at home in November over the past five years...Florida's Erving Walker had 10 points...Werner shot 4-of-6 from long distance while Hodge was 5-of-9 on threes.