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Georgia Basketball announces non-conference schedule for 2023-24 season

Palmber-Thombsby:Palmer Thombs•08/22/23•

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Mike White, Georgia Bulldogs basketball coach
Georgia basketball coach Mike White coaches his team during a game on Jan. 25, 2023. (Eakin Howard / Getty Images)

Georgia Basketball announced its non-conference schedule for 2023-24 on Tuesday with nine home games and a trio of road trips. Looking to improve upon a 16-16 season in their first under head coach Mike White, the Bulldogs certainly will be tested.

The season starts on November 6th in Las Vegas against Oregon – new home for Georgia transfer Kario Oquendo – before the Bulldogs come back to Athens to take on Wake Forest (November 10th). After a second game at home (NC Central – November 12th), it’s off to the Bahamas for the Baha Mar Hoops Championship.

Airing on CBS Sports Network, Georgia opens the four-team event against a Final Four team from last season, the Miami Hurricanes (November 17th). Two days later, UGA takes on either Kansas State or Providence, both of whom made the NCAA Tournament in 2023.

Georgia comes back from the trip with a game against Winthrop (November 24th) in Athens. Then, it’s back on the road, this time to Tallahassee for the first-ever SEC-ACC Challenge against Florida State (November 29th). Tip time for that game is already set for 9:15 p.m. ET.

The Bulldogs close out the non-conference schedule not leaving the Classic City in the month of December. With six straight games at Stegeman Coliseum, the schedule eases up a little bit ahead of what’s always a tough slate in the SEC. Headlined by the in-state rivalry game against Georgia Tech (December 5th), Georgia also hosts Mercer (December 1st), High Point (December 16th), Mount St. Mary’s (December 20th), North Florida (December 22nd) and Alabama A&M (December 30th) in the stretch.

Dates and times for the SEC schedule are still to be announced, but the Bulldogs do know who and where they’ll play. Home-and-homes come against Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, LSU and South Carolina. Georgia will also host Alabama, Ole Miss, Tennessee and Texas A&M while playing Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri and Vanderbilt only on the road this season.

Georgia is breaking in nine new players on its roster for 2023-24. The Bulldogs signed four newcomers from the high school ranks – a group that ranks 18th nationally and fourth in the SEC – plus five more from the transfer portal, coming in at No. 10 in the country there.

The Bulldogs picked up RJ Melendez (Illinois), Jalen DeLoach (VCU), Russel Tchewa (South Florida), Noah Thomasson (Niagara) and RJ Sunahara (Nova Southeastern) out of the transfer portal. Sunahara seems to be the biggest addition from the portal as the reigning Division II Player of the Year, but don’t count out possible contributions from Melendez as a shooter, DeLoach and Tchewa as big men and Thomasson as a scorer.

Blue Cain and Silas Demary joined Georgia’s Class of 2023 this spring. Including James and Jordan three of the four rank in the top 100 according to the On3 Industry Ranking with all four having at least one of the major recruiting services ranking them within the top 100 including Cain, a consensus top-100 player. Dylan James and Mari Jordan signed with Georgia last November in the Class of 2023.

Good news for the Bulldogs and getting accustomed to playing with their new teammates, they’ve already gotten their feet wet with a trip to Italy over the summer. There they played three games against elite Italian professional teams and experienced all that the country has to offer in Florence, Rome, Pompeii and Sorrento. Statistical highlights of the trip are as follows per Georgia Basketball’s social media accounts:

Thomasson: 14 pts, 5 ast in game one
Tchewa: 14 pts, 5 reb in game one
Moncrieffe: 11 pts, 6 reb in game one
Jordan: 10 pts, 3 reb in game one / 13 pts, 5 reb, 3 stl in game three
Anselem-Ibe: 9 pts, 4 reb in game one / 10 pts, 3 reb, 2 stl in game three
James: 9 pts, 15 reb in game one
Cain: 10 pts in game two / 12 pts, 7 reb, 3 stl in game three
Melendez: 9 pts, 3 stl in game two
Abdur-Rahim: 9 pts in game two / 26 pts, 8 reb, 2 stl in game three
Hill: 6 pts in game two
DeLoach: 11 pts, 6 reb, 1 stl in game three
Demary: 10 pts, 6 ast, 4 stl in game three
Sunahara: 9 pts, 4 reb, 2 stl in game three

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