Category: UGA Men’s Basketball

ATHENS, Ga. — Rod Cole, who helped lead the Georgia to the 1990 SEC Championship 30 seasons ago, has been selected as the Bulldogs’ 2020 SEC Legend. The 14 Allstate SEC Basketball Legends from each league school will be honored at this week’s league tournament at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.

Cole, a native of Conyers, Ga., was a standout at Rockdale County High School before joining the Bulldogs. He was a four-year starter at Georgia from 1987-91 and finished his career ranked No. 2 in assists (379) and No. 5 in steals (191) among the Bulldogs’ all-time statistical leaders. Cole helped lead Georgia to its first-ever back-to-back NCAA Tournament bids in 1990 and 1991 and served as team captain as a senior.

Cole was a key component in Georgia’s run to the 1990 SEC title. The Bulldogs started league play 3-3 that season but then won nine of their next 10 games en route to the title. Cole helped start that streak by hitting three free throws with four seconds left to force overtime in the Bulldogs’ 94-92 upset of the 16th-ranked LSU Tigers in Baton Rouge.

This season marks the 22nd year of the SEC Basketball Legends program. Previous legends for the Bulldogs include: Vern Flemin (1999), Alec Kessler (2000), Zippy Morocco (2001), Dominique Wilkins (2002), James Banks (2003), Lavon Mercer (2004), Ronnie Hogue (2005), Joe Ward (2006), Litterial Green (2007), Hugh Durham (2008), Shandon Anderson (2009), Tom Brennan (2010), Walter Daniels (2011), Willie Anderson (2012), Tim Bassett (2013), D.A. Layne (2014), Jacky Dorsey (2015), Jarvis Hayes (2016), Jimmy Pitts (2017), Chad Kessler (2018) and Jumaine Jones (2019).

Score By Periods

Team	1	2	F
Georgia	34	30	64
LSU	49	45	94

BATON ROUGE, La. – The Georgia Bulldogs were defeated by the LSU Tigers, 94-64, on Saturday afternoon at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in the final game of the Southeastern Conference regular season.

Freshman Anthony Edwards paced Georgia in scoring for the 21st time this season. He recorded 17 points in the contest, the 27th time he has tallied double-digit points. Joining Edwards in double figures was junior Rayshaun Hammonds with 12. Hammonds led the Bulldogs in rebounding, grabbing eight boards.

“Not a good one,” Georgia Head Coach Tom Crean said. “We came out and we started settling for jumpers because the lane was a little packed. We are struggling with our focus in a lot of areas and what works and how to play winning basketball in the sense of attacking and driving. We gave up too many easy shots to them at times. We got on the glass early. We are preaching toughness nonstop, we are always working on toughness so you can’t come out at this level on the road and think that it is going to be about jump shots early. It is not jump shots early but establishing your presence and we are not good at that right now.”

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2019-20 STATISTICS	GEORGIA	LSU
Points Per Game	76.1	80.0
Opp. Point Per Game	75.4	73.6
Scoring Margin	+0.7	+6.5
Field Goal Pct.	.451	.468
Opp. Field Goal Pct.	.450	.425
3-Point Pct.	.305	.321
3-Pointers Per Game	7.1	6.7
Opp. 3-Point Pct.	.321	.352
Free Throw Pct.	.700	.768
Free Throws Per Game	14.3	16.6
Rebounds Per Game	38.1	39.7
Opp. Rebound Per Game	35.9	33.3
Rebound Margin	+2.2	+6.4
Assists Per Game	13.4	12.6
Turnovers Per Game	15.0	12.6
Assist-to-Turnover Ratio	0.89	1.01
Turnover Margin	-1.9	-0.7
Steals Per Game	7.2	6.3
Blocks Per Game	3.3	3.9

 

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2019-20 STATISTICS	GEORGIA	FLORIDA
Points Per Game	76.9	72.1
Opp. Point Per Game	75.6	66.3
Scoring Margin	+1.2	+5.8
Field Goal Pct.	.452	.455
Opp. Field Goal Pct.	.450	.419
3-Point Pct.	.304	.346
3-Pointers Per Game	7.2	7.1
Opp. 3-Point Pct.	.322	.319
Free Throw Pct.	.701	.725
Free Throws Per Game	14.5	13.9
Rebounds Per Game	38.4	35.4
Opp. Rebound Per Game	36.1	31.9
Rebound Margin	+2.3	+3.6
Assists Per Game	13.5	11.7
Turnovers Per Game	15.0	12.1
Assist-to-Turnover Ratio	0.90	0.97
Turnover Margin	-1.7	+0.8
Steals Per Game	7.3	5.8
Blocks Per Game	3.4	3.9

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ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia’s Anthony Edwards was tabbed as the SEC’s Freshman of the Week on Monday, the fourth time the Atlanta native has been honored as such this season.

Last week, Edwards averaged 31.0 points while shooting 52.8 percent from the field and 85.0 percent from the line in outings against South Carolina and Arkansas. He posted his 24th and 25th double-figure scoring tallies in 29 games this season, as well as his 11th and 12th 20-point outputs and his third 30-point effort.

At South Carolina last Wednesday, Edwards scored 36 points and recorded game-high tallies for four assists and four steals in 44 minutes of action.

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Score By Periods

Team	1	2	F
Arkansas	39	50	89
Georgia	47	52	99

ATHENS, Ga. – The Georgia Bulldogs defeated the Arkansas Razorbacks on Saturday night, 99-89, in front of a sold-out Stegeman Coliseum.

This crowd officially breaks the program’s all-time total attendance record set in Coach Crean’s inaugural season in Athens, now up to 154,064 fans to surpass the 148,780 set last season. The Bulldogs drew a crowd of 10,000 plus for the 10th this season, surpassing the previous record of nine crowds of 10,000 or more in 2002-03.

“First off, I just can’t thanks the fans enough for setting this record,” Georgia Head Coach Tom Crean said. “I will thank the students again on Wednesday night when we set that student attendance record, and I just found out that we had our 10th game of 10,000 plus which is another school record. We don’t win this game tonight without the fans. We just don’t. Momentum was up for grabs so much inside of this game. We were rolling and then all of the sudden with the fouls it was like the air went out of the building. The air went out of us at the end of the first half. We regrouped and it was a game of runs. It was a game of adjustments. It was an exciting game, trying to figure out different things. At the end of the day, when we had to get the stops and we had to get the finishes, our crowd went to a different level. And that is the way it has been all year. That is what you envision when you have a desire to build a program. You envision fans doing that with you and I can’t thank them enough.”

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2019-20 STATISTICS	GEORGIA	SOUTH CAROLINA
Points Per Game	75.6	71.8
Opp. Point Per Game	74.4	67.5
Scoring Margin	+1.1	+4.3
Field Goal Pct.	.448	.436
Opp. Field Goal Pct.	.448	.389
3-Point Pct.	.301	.316
3-Pointers Per Game	7.0	5.9
Opp. 3-Point Pct.	.323	.295
Free Throw Pct.	.698	.618
Free Throws Per Game	14.1	13.5
Rebounds Per Game	38.3	37.3
Opp. Rebound Per Game	36.2	34.7
Rebound Margin	+2.1	+2.5
Assists Per Game	13.6	14.0
Turnovers Per Game	15.2	13.5
Assist-to-Turnover Ratio	0.90	1.04
Turnover Margin	-1.5	+2.4
Steals Per Game	7.5	7.9
Blocks Per Game	3.5	4.3

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Score By Periods

Team	1	2	F
Georgia	32	48	80
Vanderbilt	40	38	78

Nashville, Tenn. – The Georgia men’s basketball team defeated Vanderbilt 80-77 Saturday evening, at the Nashville Memorial Gymnasium.

Senior Tyree Crump would hit the game winner within the closing seconds of the game. After Sahvir Wheeler sank two free throws to keep the Bulldogs within one, 78-77, Scotty Pippen Jr. would miss two free throws before Crump collected the rebound, weaved through defenders and delivered the final blow to the Commodores, giving the Bulldogs their second straight SEC win. This is the second game winner of the season, dating back to Dec. 20 with the win over SMU.

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Score By Periods

Team	1	2	F
Auburn	25	30	55
Georgia	31	34	65

ATHENS, Ga. –  The Georgia Bulldogs defeated the 13th-ranked Auburn Tigers in an SEC rematch, 65-55, in front of a sold-out Stegeman Coliseum on Wednesday night to snap a five-game losing streak.

This win marks the first over the Auburn Tigers since March of 2017. It also marks the second win over an AP Top 15 team this season, the last coming at No. 9 Memphis on Jan. 4. The last time the Bulldogs were able to defeat multiple top 15 teams in a season was during the 2003-04 season when they tallied three upsets.

Freshman sensation Anthony Edwards paced Georgia in scoring for the 16th time this season with 18. This marks the 22nd double-digit performance of his career. Junior Rayshaun Hammonds (13) and freshmen Sahvir Wheeler (13) and Toumani Camara (10) joined Edwards in double figures.

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2019-20 STATISTICS	GEORGIA	AUBURN
Points Per Game	75.8	79.9
Opp. Point Per Game	75.1	71.2
Scoring Margin	+0.7	+8.8
Field Goal Pct.	.448	.437
Opp. Field Goal Pct.	.450	416
3-Point Pct.	.298	.305
3-Pointers Per Game	7.0	8.2
Opp. 3-Point Pct.	.327	.328
Free Throw Pct.	.699	.672
Free Throws Per Game	14.2	18.7
Rebounds Per Game	38.3	41.9
Opp. Rebound Per Game	36.5	35.2
Rebound Margin	+1.8	+6.7
Assists Per Game	13.8	13.0
Turnovers Per Game	15.3	12.8
Assist-to-Turnover Ratio	0.90	1.02
Turnover Margin	-1.5	+0.4
Steals Per Game	7.6	6.0
Blocks Per Game	3.4	5.2

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