Dogs To Host Gamecocks On Wednesday

   

2019-20 STATISTICS	GEORGIA	SOUTH CAROLINA
Points Per Game	76.8	71.5
Opp. Point Per Game	75.1	66.8
Scoring Margin	+1.7	+4.7
Field Goal Pct.	.451	.438
Opp. Field Goal Pct.	.450	.383
3-Point Pct.	.305	.315
3-Pointers Per Game	7.0	6.0
Opp. 3-Point Pct.	.327	.296
Free Throw Pct.	.690	.617
Free Throws Per Game	14.0	13.3
Rebounds Per Game	38.7	37.2
Opp. Rebound Per Game	36.5	34.8
Rebound Margin	+2.3	+2.4
Assists Per Game	14.0	14.2
Turnovers Per Game	14.9	13.6
Assist-to-Turnover Ratio	0.94	1.05
Turnover Margin	-0.9	+1.8
Steals Per Game	7.7	7.7
Blocks Per Game	3.4	4.4

   

• Anthony Edwards is the nation's top-scoring freshman and averaging 19.7 ppg...a full two points per game more than any other Division I freshman.
• During the Alabama game, Sahvir Wheeler became the first UGA freshman with 100 assists in more than a decade...since Dustin Ware in 2008-09.
• UGA is only 23,691 fans shy of its total attendance record, which was set last season. An average of 4,738 fans at home dates left is needed to break the record.
• Six of nine SEC games at Stegeman Coliseum are now sellouts – Kentucky, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Alabama, Arkansas and Florida.
• Georgia's celebrated freshman class – ranked among the top-10 groups nationally by every recruiting service – features five of the nation's top-100 prospects.

 
Georgia returns to action on Wednesday evening when the it hosts South Carolina at Stegeman Coliseum. One of the most popular promotions of recent seasons is set for the game. The first 2,000 fans through the turnstiles Wednesday will receive a Nicolas Claxton bobblehead.

The Bulldogs are 12-11 overall and 10-3 at Stegeman this season. Georgia is averaging 82.7 points at home, where UGA possesses a substantial scoring margin of +11.9 points per game.

Georgia's average home attendance of 9,616 is on pace to be the second-best effort in school history (trailing only 9,857 in 2002-03).

Tom Crean has credited fan support as an integral part of the Bulldogs' home success, most notably following a Dec. 20 win over SMU.

"We don't win this game without this crowd," Crean said bluntly in his postgame press conference. "We do not win this game without this incredible, passionate, stick-with-us, not let us drop crowd. I reminded the players a few times that we're sitting here in basically a sold-out game, and these fans are not giving up on you, so don't give up on yourself. I'm extremely proud of how we found a way to win, and I'm unbelievably thankful for our fans."

Anthony Edwards, one of only two freshmen included on the 20-player late-season Wooden Award Watch List, is the nation's top-scoring freshman at 19.7 ppg. Edwards, a two-time SEC Freshman of the Week honoree, is averaging 24.5 ppg and 10.8 rpg over Georgia's last four outings.
 
The first 2,000 fans at Wednesday's game will receive a Nicolas Claxton bobblehead.

Claxton led the Bulldogs in scoring, rebounding, blocks and steals last season and also finished second on the team in assists. He was selected by the Brooklyn Nets with the No. 31 overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft.
 
Tyree Crump is...
• 3 3FGAs from No. 8 G.G. Smith
• 16 3FGs from No. 9 Bernard Davis
• 8 3FGs from No. 10 Jody Patton

Among UGA's Freshman Leaders - Anthony Edwards is...
• 29 points from No. 3 Litterial Green
• 64 points from No. 2 Jumaine Jones
• 194 points from No. 1 Jacky Dorsey

Among UGA's Freshman Leaders Sahvir Wheeler is...
• 3 assists from No. 4 Moses White
• 5 assists from No. 3 Rashad Wright
• 8 assists from No. 2 Dustin Ware
• 31 assists from No. 1 Litterial Green
 
Georgia enters tonight's game with a 58-56 lead in the all-time series with South Carolina, including a 33-19 advantage in Athens.

In last season's matchup in Columbia, Georgia dropped a 66-46 decision despite double-double outings from Nicolas Claxton and Derek Ogbeide.

Georgia led 13-12 just under six minutes into the game before the Gamecocks exploded on a 17-2 spurt.

The Bulldogs trimmed a 23-point deficit to 10 three times in the second half but could get no closer.

In the most recent meeting at Stegeman Coliseum last Feb. 2, Georgia dropped an 86-80 decision to South Carolina before a sellout crowd. Five Bulldogs scored in double digits, with Ogbeide's 16 points pacing UGA.

After trailing 80-70, the Bulldogs embarked on a 10-3 surge to pull within three with 66 seconds left. South Carolina rebounded its own miss with 40 ticks on the clock and made a pair of free throws to make is 85-80.

Georgia missed a trio of 3-pointers on its next possession.
 
South Carolina arrived in Athens at 14-9 overall and 6-4 in SEC play.

The Gamecocks opened league action with a pair of losses – and in the midst of a three-game losing streak dating back to their final non-conference outing – but have rallied to win six of their last eight outings.

AJ Lawson and Maik Kotsar are the only Gamecocks to start all 23 games to date. Lawson leads three double-digit scorers for Carolina at 13.7 ppg, while Kotsar is the team's top rebounder at 6.5 rpg.
 
Sahvir Wheeler notched career-high efforts of 24 points, eight assists and 42 minutes; however, Georgia dropped a 105-102 decision to last Saturday.

After trailing most of the first half, the Bulldogs used a 13-3 run over the opening 2:24 of the second stanza to grab a 54-48 lead. That margin grew to 65-53 at the 14:44 mark before the Crimson Tide rallied.

Rayshaun Hammonds, who scored 20 points in the contest, knotted the game at 92-92 with 21 seconds remaining, and Mike Peake drew a charge on Alabama's final possession of regulation.

The Tide led by four points twice in the extra session, and the game wasn't decided until Anthony Edwards' 3-pointer at the buzzer was off the mark.
 
Georgia's current attendance average of 9,616 would be the second-best effort in school history (trailing only an average of 9,857 in 2002-03).

The Bulldogs are well on their way to shattering their all-time total attendance record for the second consecutive season. A year ago, Georgia's tally of 148,700 fans through the Stegeman turnstiles broke the previous program record by more than 9,000.

This year, 125,009 spectators have attended Georgia's 13 home dates so far. That is 23,691 shy of the current mark with five games left, meaning an average of just 4,738 would top the existing record.

Edwards Soaring Up Bulldogs' Freshman Leaders Ledger Anthony Edwards joined Georgia's top-10 season scoring efforts by a freshman in just the 18th game of the season at No. 15 Kentucky. Over the next four outings, he ascended all the way up to the No. 4 position as outlined below.

The Atlanta native's 16 points at Rupp Arena on Jan. 21 pushed him past the previous No. 10 freshman effort by Eric Marbury. He moved to No. 9 against Ole Miss to No. 8 at Missouri to No. 6 versus Texas A&M and to No. 4 at Florida.

Edwards' current scoring average of 19.7 ppg would be second best among all players on the top-10 ledger, trailing only Jacky Dorsey. At his current pace, Edwards would wrap up the Bulldogs' 31-game regular-season slate with 609 points.
 

UGA's Top-10 Freshman Scorers
	Player	Pts.	Year	G	Avg.
1.	Jacky Dorsey	646	1975	25	25.8
2.	Jumaine Jones	515	1998	35	14.7
3.	Litterial Green	481	1989	31	15.5
4.	Anthony Edwards	452	2020	23	19.7
5.	Cedric Henderson	433	1985	28	15.5
6.	K. Caldwell-Pope	422	2012	32	13.2
7.	Walter Daniels	404	1976	27	15.0
8.	D.A. Layne	381	1999	30	12.7
9.	Terry Fair	368	1980	27	13.6
10.	Trey Thompkins	354	2009	28	12.6

 
Sahvir Wheeler's eight assists against Alabama gave him exactly 100 passes-to-points this season.

Wheeler became just the sixth Georgia freshman to record 100 assists and the first to do so in just over a decade, since Dustin Ware during the 2008-09 season.

In fact, Wheeler's assist total is currently the fifth-most ever by a Bulldog freshman as outlined below. His average of 4.5 apg is better than any other freshman has contributed for the Bulldogs.
 

UGA's Top-10 Freshman Assists
Rk.	Player	Ast.	Year	G	Avg
1.	Litterial Green	133	1989	31	4.3
2.	Dustin Ware	108	2009	32	3.4
3.	Moses White	105	2000	29	3.6
4.	Rashad Wright	103	2001	31	3.3
5.	Bryan Drafts	100	1974	26	3.8
	Sahvir Wheeler	100	2020	22	4.5
7.	Charles Mann	92	2013	32	2.9
8.	Vern Fleming	86	1981	30	2.9
9.	Sundiata Gaines	78	2005	27	2.9
10.	Walter Daniels	77	1976	27	2.9

 
Toumani Camara, who moved into the Bulldogs' starting lineup in the 10th game of the season against SMU, has seen a massive up-tick in his production over the last 17 outings.

The freshman from Brussels has nearly doubled his scoring and rebounding efforts and has logged more than twice as many minutes as he did in the first six games of the season as outlined below.

During that span, Camara also posted career highs of 16 points vs. Georgia Southern, nine rebounds vs. Austin Peay and 34 minutes of playing time vs. SMU.
 

Camara's Increased Efforts
Stat	First 6	Last 16
Points per game	4.0	7.3
Rebounds per game	2.5	4.8
Minutes per game	13.2	26.9

 
Through games of Feb. 10, Anthony Edwards and Sahvir Wheeler were among the nation's top freshmen in scoring and assists, respectively, as outlined on the next page.

Edwards was the top scorer among all Division-I freshmen and the only one included among the nation's top-50 scoring leaders.

Wheeler sported the sixth-best average assists tally by a freshman.
 

Top Freshman Scoring Averages
Rk.	Player, school	GP	Avg.
35.	Anthony Edwards, Georgia	23	19.7
87.	Landers Nolley, Va. Tech	24	17.7
96.	Vernon Carey, Duke	24	17.5
99.	Isaiah Stewart, Washington	24	17.4
Top Freshman Assist Averages
Rk.	Player, school	GP	Avg.
36.	Nico Mannion, Arizona	23	5.5
42.	Yuri Collins, Saint Louis	24	5.3
57.	Ellis Magnuson, E. Wash.	23	5.0
64.	Rylan Jones, Utah	22	4.9
74.	Sean East, UMass	24	4.7
88.	Sahvir Wheeler, Georgia	22	4.5
90.	Ethan Anderson, USC	24	4.5
94.	Isaiah Stevens, Colorado St.	25	4.5

 
Georgia's endured a brutal stretch of games to open SEC play.

The Bulldogs began league action by facing six straight 2019 NCAA Tournament teams – Kentucky, Auburn, Tennessee, Mississippi State, Kentucky (again) and Ole Miss.

Tom Crean has undergone some serious hazing from the scheduling Gods since arriving in Athens. A year ago, Georgia opened SEC play with consecutive Saturday road trips to the defending league co-champions from the previous year – Tennessee and Auburn.
 
Jarvis Hayes, a two-time All-American for the Bulldogs in 2002 and 2003, was officially enshrined in the UGA Athletic Association's Circle of Honor last Friday night.

The Circle of Honor is an all-sports award that is the highest recognition a former UGA student-athlete or coach can receive. Inducted with Hayes were gymnast Jenni Beathard, kicker Kevin Butler and golfer Nick Cassini.

Hayes is the third Georgia basketball player inducted into the Circle, joining 1990 SEC Player of the Year Alec Kessler and Zippy Morocco, a two-sport star who was the Bulldogs' first All-American in basketball.

A native of Atlanta, Hayes averaged an SEC-best 18.6 points per game in 2002 and again led the Bulldogs offensively in 2003 while averaging 18.3 points per game. He reached 1,000 career points in just 55 games, six games quicker than UGA's career scoring leader, Litterial Green.

Hayes helped Georgia to a combined 41-18 record in his two seasons, including a 2002 NCAA Tournament bid. He joined Dominique Wilkins as just the second Bulldog to earn consensus first-team All-SEC honors twice.

Hayes was selected by Washington with the No. 10 overall pick in the first round of the 2003 NBA Draft. He played seven seasons with Washington, Detroit and New Jersey.
 
Sahvir Wheeler returned to the court against Texas A&M on Feb. 1 after missing a Jan. 28 game at Missouri.

Wheeler, who leads Georgia in assists and is third in scoring, suffered an upper body injury in practice on Monday, Jan. 27, before the team departed for Columbia.

He has played three of his best games of the season since being back.

The Houston native had a strong linescore against the Aggies, with nine points, five assists, four boards and two steals in 31 minutes of PT.

Wheeler followed that with 16 points and four assists in what was then a season-high 36 minutes of action at Florida.

Last Saturday, he recorded career-high tallies of 24 points, eight assists (for the third time this season) and 42 minutes of PT against Alabama.
 
Tyree Crump continued a familiar theme to his scoring this season, with 37 of his 52 made field goals (71.2 percent) coming from behind the 3-point arc.

More than two-thirds of Crump's made shots from the floor at UGA have come on 3-pointers.

Crump has connected on 164 3-pointers as a Bulldog, which accounts for 69.2 percent of his 237 made field goals.
 
In his 61 games played as a freshman and sophomore, Rayshaun Hammonds had two 20-point performances, four double-figure rebounding outputs and two double-doubles.

In 23 games played this season, Hammonds has notched five 20-point outputs, six double-digit rebound counts and four double-doubles.
 
Anthony Edwards was named to updated Watch Lists for the Wooden and Jerry West Awards last week.

On Monday, Feb. 3, Edwards was the only SEC player and one of just two freshmen featured on the new top-20 list of candidates for the Wooden Award.

On Tuesday, Feb. 4, Edwards was one of two freshmen and four SEC players on the top-10 list for the West Award, which is given to the nation's top shooting guard.
 
Anthony Edwards was tabbed SEC Freshman of the Week on Feb. 3 after averaging 26.0 points and 12.5 rebounds in Georgia's outings against Missouri and Texas A&M.

Bulldogs have now been named SEC FOTW three times this season. Previously, Edwards and Sahvir Wheeler were honored on Dec. 1 and Dec. 23, respectively.

Against Mizzou and TAMU, Edwards became the first Bulldog freshman to post consecutive double-doubles since Jumaine Jones in 1997-98. Edwards' 15 rebounds against Texas A&M were the most by a Georgia freshman since Jones' 16 versus Penn State in the semifinals of the 1998 NIT.

Edwards was first honored – and also was tabbed National Freshman of the Week by CBSsports.com – following the Maui Jim Maui Invitational. Most notably, he poured in 37 points against No. 3 Michigan State on Nov. 26, including 33 points in the second half. Edwards' effort represented the most points by a Bulldog freshman since Jacky Dorsey's 41 versus LSU on Jan. 20, 1975.

Wheeler was honored after he scored layups in the final five seconds of both the first and second overtime periods of UGA's versus SMU. He scored with four seconds remaining in the first OT to tie the score. In the second extra session, Wheeler's layup with 1.9 seconds left supplied Georgia with the victory.
 
Tye Fagan scored 14 points at No. 15 Kentucky on Jan. 21 by connecting on all six of his shots from the field (including a 3-pointer) and his one attempt at the free throw line.

Fagan has now scored in double figures three times this season and has done so in an extremely efficient fashion. In that trio of contests, Fagan has connected on 81.0 percent (17-of-21) of his shots from the floor.

Fagan recorded his first double-digit scoring output with 11 points against Dayton in the opening round of the Maui Jim Maui Invitational. He connected on 5-of-5 shots from the field, including his only 3-point attempt, against the Flyers.

The sophomore from Logtown paced Georgia with 15 points at Arizona State on Dec. 14. Fagan did most of his damage in the second half in Tempe with 11 points in 10 minutes.

Before that, Fagan's top offensive performances were early last season. He notched eight points in three of the first four games of his freshman year.
 
Freshmen Toumani Camara, Anthony Edwards and Sahvir Wheeler all started for the Bulldogs at No. 5 Auburn on Jan. 11. That marked the first time Georgia started a trio of freshmen in a decade and 11 days.

To find the last contest when three first-year Bulldogs got the nod you have to venture back to a date with Kennesaw State on New Year's Eve in 2008 when Travis Leslie, Trey Thompkins and Dustin Ware all started.

All told, four members of the Bulldogs' top-10 recruiting class have now started at some point this season. Rodney Howard did so against N.C. Central and Arizona State.
 
Georgia is 4-2 this season in games decided by four points or less.

That's a dramatic difference last season when UGA was 0-6 in such outings, with all six setbacks coming to NCAA tourney teams.

Georgia's non-conference effort in 2018-19 featured four- and two-point setbacks to Temple and Arizona State, respectively.

In SEC play, the Bulldogs dropped four consecutive extremely excruciating losses by a combined nine points between Feb. 16-27 – to LSU (83-79), Mississippi State (68-67), Ole Miss (72-71) and Auburn (78-75).

This season, Georgia defeated Georgia Tech (72-68), Chaminade (80-77), SMU (87-85) and No. 9 Memphis (65-62) before the Bulldogs suffered tight-score setbacks against Missouri (72-69) and Alabama (105-102).
 
Tyree Crump ascended into Georgia's all-time top-10 career leaders in 3-point attempts at Arizona State on Dec. 14 and is closing in on the top 10 for successful shots behind the arc as outlined below.

Crump has 164 3-pointers, leaving him just eight away from the Bulldogs' current No. 10 tally of Jody Patton.
 

UGA Career 3FGA Leaders
Rk.	No.	Player	Seasons	3FGAs
1.	683	Levi Stukes	2004-07	261
5.	569	Kenny Gaines	2013-16	213
8.	500	G.G. Smith	1996-99	193
9.	497	Tyree Crump	2016-19	164
UGA Career 3FG Leaders
Rk.	No.	Player	Seasons	3FGs
1.	261	Levi Stukes	2003-07	683
4.	213	Ezra Williams	2000-03	582
	213	Kenny Gaines	2012-16	569
7.	194	Dustin Ware	2008-12	536
8.	193	G.G. Smith	1995-99	500
9.	184	Bernard Davis	1990-94	453
10.	172	Jody Patton	1987-91	387
11.	164	Tyree Crump	2016-19	497

 
While most of the SEC opened league play on Saturday, Jan. 4, Georgia was earning a historic road win at No. 9 Memphis.

That was: 1) just the second road victory over a ranked non-conference foe in 115 seasons of competition for Georgia Basketball; and 2) just the second road win over a ranked foe by any SEC team this season...South Carolina's upset of No. 9 Virginia on Dec. 22 being the other. The victory also represented UGA's first:

• win over a top-10 foe since defeating No. 10 Kentucky, 77-70, on Jan. 8, 2011.
• road win over a top-10 opponent since beating No. 5 Kentucky, 65-57, at Rupp Arena on Jan. 17, 2004.
• road win over a ranked, non-conference foe since topping No. 7 Louisville, 73-70 in overtime, on Dec. 29, 1977.
 
Toumani Camara was 8-of-8 from the field against Georgia Southern on Dec. 23, the first time a Bulldog was perfect while attempting that many shots since Jonas Hayes was 8-of-8 versus Florida A&M on Dec. 5, 2003.

Camara also became just the fourth Power 5 player to shoot 100 percent from the field while attempting at least eight shots this season as outlined below.
 

Power-5 Perfection On FGs
FGs	Player, School	Opp. (Date)
9-9	Olivier Sarr, Wake Forest	UNC Asheville (11/13)
8-8	Zeke Nnaji, Arizona	San Jose St. (11/14)
8-8	Kofi Cockburn, Illinois	Miami (12/2)
8-8	Toumani Camara, Georgia	Ga. Southern (12/23)

 
Donnell Gresham Jr. – the Bulldogs' first graduate transfer – posted back-to-back double-digit scoring tallies against Austin Peay on Dec. 30 and No. 9 Memphis on Jan. 4.

The St. Paul, Minn., native has now reached double figures 33 times as a collegiate canine – 29 as a Northeastern Husky and four as a Georgia Bulldog.

In addition to the APSU and Memphis outings, Gresham also scored 13 points against both The Citadel and Georgia Tech.
 
Georgia averaged 80.8 points per game in non-conference play which ranked No. 22 nationally when the Bulldogs entered SEC play.

Some additional nuggets within the point production prior to opening SEC play include:

• UGA scored 91, 95 and 100 points in its first three games – the first time the Bulldogs scored 90 or more three times in a row since 2006. That season, the Bulldogs defeated Gardner-Webb, 96-67, on Dec. 2; No. 16 Gonzaga, 96-83, on Dec. 16; and Jacksonville, 93-77, on Dec. 19.
• UGA had eight 90-point performances in Tom Crean's first 40 games in Athens. The Bulldogs reached the 90-point plateau just eight times in 249 games prior to Crean's arrival.
• UGA had three of SEC's top-10 scoring outputs in non-conference action – the No. 5 mark of 100 points vs. Delaware St. and the co-No. 10 standard of 95 points vs. both The Citadel and N.C. Central.
 
Georgia's freshman class features five of the top-100 prospects from 2019 and was consistently ranked among the nation's top recruiting classes – No. 5 by ESPN.com, No. 6 by rivals.com and No. 10 by 247Sports.com.

Headlining the quintet is Anthony Edwards. The Atlanta native, who tabbed the nation's best prospect by some, announced his commitment on national television on Feb. 11. He is the Bulldogs' highest rated recruit ever.

Dominique Wilkins was the most hyped recruit in Georgia history in 1979. Individual rankings for that class are believed to be unavailable, but it also featured future stars such as Ralph Sampson, Isiah Thomas, James Worthy, Clark Kellogg and Sam Bowie.

In the internet age, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is the highest ranked player in the 247Sports.com composite to enroll at Georgia at No. 12 in 2011. Louis Williams signed with the Bulldogs as the No. 6 prospect in the nation in the 2005 composite but opted to enter the NBA Draft.

The Bulldogs' highest recruiting class ever was No. 2 in 1992 when UGA inked four top-100 prospects – Shandon Anderson, Terrell Bell, Pertha Robinson and McDonald's All-American Carlos Strong – in the fall and added then added Cleveland Jackson, the National JUCO Player of the Year, in the spring.

Additional top classes at Georgia include those in 1979 and 1980 which featured four McDonald's All-Americans between them – Wilkins and Terry Fair in 1979 and Vern Fleming and James Banks a year later.
 
The Bulldogs' class of nine freshmen – seven scholarship and two walk-ons – ranks as the third-largest in D-I hoops.

Navy, TCU and Utah sport a nation-leading 11 freshmen on their rosters. Air Force has 10 freshmen. In addition to Georgia, Louisville also has nine freshmen.

On this list, "freshman" is defined as a player who is a freshman eligibility wise and competing at that school for the first time this season...so there are some redshirts.
 
Anthony Edwards and Sahvir Wheeler poured in 24 and 19 points, respectively, in the season opener against Western Carolina on Nov. 5 – the second- and third-most points ever by a freshman in their Bulldog debut.

Since NCAA rules changed to allow freshmen to compete in basketball in 1972, 23 Bulldogs have scored in double figures during their first collegiate contest.

Edwards came within a bucket of Dominique Wilkins' school record against Troy on Nov. 30, 1979 as outlined below.
 

Top Tally Debuts By UGA Freshmen
Year	Player	Points
1979	Dominique Wilkins	26
2019	Anthony Edwards	24
1979	Terry Fair	19
2019	Sahvir Wheeler	19
1998	D.A. Layne	18
2007	Jeremy Price	18
2004	Sundiata Gaines	17
2017	Rayshaun Hammonds	17
2011	Kentavious Caldwell-Pope	15

 
Anthony Edwards' 24 points against Western Carolina were the most by a Bulldog in an opener in nearly two decades – since Ezra Williams' 26 versus Furman on Nov. 16, 2001.
 
You may have noticed Georgia's roster has gone away from listing traditional basketball positions of guard, forward and center.

Tom Crean is a proponent for "position-less" basketball so players are now simply listed as the position "B"...which stands for "Basketball Player."

"That's what they are," Crean said. "It's not valid to call them centers and forwards and things like that with the way that we're trying to play. They're being trained as basketball players, every day. If you came out there to practice (6-11) Rodney Howard, a lot of times is doing the same things that (5-10) Sahvir Wheeler's doing in the sense of how we train ball handling, driving, shooting...all those type of things. That's what we're recruiting. We're recruiting basketball players."
 
The Bulldogs signed four standouts to letters-of-intent during the NCAA's early signing period, Tom Crean announced on Nov. 18.

Georgia's incoming recruiting class was listed at No. 24 nationally in the 247Sports.com composite rankings.

Two in-state prep prospects – Kadarius "K.D." Johnson from Decatur and Josh Taylor from Norcross – and a pair of Eastern Florida State College teammates – Jonathan Ned and Mikal Starks – will play for the Bulldogs beginning next season.
 
Georgia's 31-game regular-season slate includes 14 games against teams featured in the last preseason edition of ESPN.com's Bracketology released on Nov. 4.

The Bulldogs will host games against seven teams in the predicted field and take on six more away from Stegeman Coliseum.

In Athens, Georgia will entertain Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia Southern, Kentucky, N.C. Central and Tennessee.

The Bulldogs met Dayton and Michigan State in the Maui Jim Maui Invitational and will play road games at Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, LSU and Memphis.