Category: UGA Men’s Basketball

Score By Periods

Team	1	2	F
Georgia	39	52	91
Auburn	30	56	86

AUBURN, Ala. – With a season-high 52 points in the second half, the University of Georgia men’s basketball team outlasted Auburn, 91-86, Tuesday evening before 1,824 fans at Auburn Arena.

Junior Tye Fagan led Georgia with 16 points on 7-for-10 shooting with six rebounds, one of six Bulldogs in double-figures on the night. Sophomore Toumani Camara posted his fifth double-double of the season with 15 points and 12 boards, while fellow sophomore Sahvir Wheeler tallied 13 points and seven assists. Graduates P.J. Horne and Justin Kier scored 13 and 11 points, respectively, with freshman K.D. Johnson pitching in 12.

Overall, the Bulldogs (11-6, 4-6 SEC) shot 49.3 percent from the field, including seven 3-pointers, while outrebounding the Tigers (10-9, 4-6 SEC), 40-32. Georgia also dominated inside with 52 points in the paint, compared to 34 by Auburn.

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Score By Periods

Team	1	2	F
Cincinnati	26	42	68
Georgia	49	34	83

ATHENS, Ga – Bolstered by a 15-0 scoring run to close the first half, the University of Georgia men’s basketball team defeated the Cincinnati Bearcats, 83-68, Saturday evening in front of 1,638 fans at Stegeman Coliseum. With the win, the Bulldogs (6-0) reached their best start to a season since the 1982-83 Final Four season.

Sophomore Toumani Camara led a balanced Georgia attack in scoring with a career-high 19 points on 7-for-10 shooting, hitting that points mark for the third time this season. Camara also picked up his second double-double of the season with a team-leading 10 rebounds.

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Score By Periods

Team	1	2	F
Samford	35	40	75
Georgia	31	48	79

ATHENS, Ga – Despite trailing for nearly the entire game, the University of Georgia men’s basketball team outlasted the Samford Bulldogs, 79-75, Saturday evening in front of 1,638 fans at Stegeman Coliseum. The Bulldogs (5-0) only led for 46 seconds Saturday, but a strong second half led by sophomore Sahvir Wheeler and junior Tye Fagan helped hold off a game Samford squad (2-2).

Graduate Justin Kier led Georgia with a season-high 18 points on 6-for-12 shooting, including 4-for-9 from beyond the arc. Wheeler and Fagan each pitched in 15 points, with Wheeler also leading the Bulldogs with six assists and Fagan tying for the team lead with seven rebounds. Graduates Andrew Garcia and P.J. Horne also tallied double-digit scoring performances with 11 and 10 points, respectively. Georgia only shot 43 percent from the field for the game, but improved to 50 percent in the second half and outrebounded Samford, 46-38, for the game.

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By John Frierson
Staff Writer

In the fourth game of the Georgia men’s basketball team’s season, Tuesday night against Montana at Stegeman Coliseum, we got to see these Bulldogs continue to evolve as a unit. With eight new players on this year’s team, the Bulldogs will continue to take shape as the season progresses.

What we saw Tuesday, in Georgia’s 63-50 win over the Grizzlies, was a team with depth and muscle and speed. The Bulldogs made 10 of their first 12 shots and jumped out to a nice lead, 21-7, but the rest of the night was more of a struggle from the floor.

Despite the shooting difficulties — Georgia (4-0) finished 27 of 68 from the floor and 5 of 23 from 3-point range — the Bulldogs kept pushing and persisting at both ends of the floor. The game was, in coach Tom Crean‘s words, “the definition of a grinder.”

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Score By Periods

Team	1	2	F
Montana	24	26	50
Georgia	32	31	63

ATHENS, Ga. – In a grinding effort, the University of Georgia men’s basketball team defeated the Montana Grizzlies, 63-50, Tuesday evening before 1,638 spectators at Stegeman Coliseum. The Bulldogs (4-0) overcame a below-average shooting performance to top the Grizzlies (0-4), dominating in the paint and on the boards.

Sophomore Toumani Camara led Georgia with his first career double-double, posting 15 points on 7-for-13 shooting and a career-high 17 rebounds and three steals. Camara was the third Bulldog with a double-double this season and tallied the most rebounds since Trey Thompkins grabbed 17 against Alabama on Feb. 20, 2010.

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2020-21 STATISTICS	GEORGIA	MONTANA
Points Per Game	89.0	66.3
Opp. Point Per Game	67.3	71.7
Scoring Margin	+21.7	-5.3
Field Goal Pct.	.508	.439
Opp. Field Goal Pct.	.425	.419
3-Point Pct.	.305	.383
3-Pointers Per Game	6.0	6.0
Opp. 3-Point Pct.	.232	.324
Free Throw Pct.	.761	.638
Free Throws Per Game	17.0	12.3
Rebounds Per Game	44.0	29.7
Opp. Rebound Per Game	29.7	37.7
Rebound Margin	+14.3	-8.0
Assists Per Game	20.3	13.0
Turnovers Per Game	18.7	12.7
Assist-to-Turnover Ratio	1.09	1.02
Turnover Margin	+0.3	-0.7
Steals Per Game	9.7	5.0
Blocks Per Game	2.3	1.3

 

• Six different Bulldogs scored in double figures against Jacksonville last Friday – Wheeler 23, Camara 19, Brown 14, Horne 12, Kier 11 and Fagan 10.
• Sahvir Wheeler is the first SEC player with three-straight point-assist double-doubles in over 20 seasons… we’re through 2000-01 and haven’t found one.
• Tye Fagan became the 28th UGA Bulldog to earn SEC Player of the Week honors (a combined 38 times) since the award’s inception in 1985.
• Versus FAMU, T. Fagan & S. Wheeler became the first Dogs to have double-doubles in the same game since N. Claxton and D. Ogbeide vs. S.C. on 3/9/19.
• UGA’s roster features eight newcomers with representative in every class – two freshmen, a sophomore, two juniors and a trio of graduate transfers.

 

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ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia will take part in the Global Sports Invitational during the 2020-21 basketball season, with the Bulldogs serving as “host” for the multi-team event (MTE) that will also feature Charleston Southern, SMU and Wofford.

Georgia will entertain Wofford and Charleston Southern at Stegeman Coliseum on Monday, Nov. 16 and Sunday, Nov. 22, respectively, and round out the tourney with a trip to SMU on Wed. Nov. 25. The Bulldogs’ trip to SMU will complete a home-and-home series with the Mustangs. A complete schedule for the round-robin event is listed below.

All three of Georgia’s games will have “homecoming” implications. Wofford head coach Jay McAuley was a four-year letterwinner for the Bulldogs from 2003-06. Charleston Southern senior Phlandrous “Phlan” Fleming, Jr., is an Athens native who starred at Cedar Shoals High School. Georgia sophomores Sahvir Wheeler and Tyron McMillan played high school basketball in Texas.

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ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia’s Stegeman Coliseum was listed at No. 21 in the 2020 arena rankings of NCAA Division I basketball venues by Stadium Journey. The website reviewed 334 of 353 NCAA Division I arenas and then compiled its rankings utilizing a “fanfare” system, which took into account a facility’s food, atmosphere, neighborhood, fans, access, value and more.

“This is easily the largest rankings list ever undertaken here at Stadium Journey, and we would wager anyplace else,” the website wrote. “It’s a different way of looking at venues, and produces some variability in our lists that you don’t see elsewhere.”

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