Georgia Basketball officially announces trip to Bahamas
Georgia Basketball officially announced its trip to the Bahamas this coming season. The Bulldogs will take on Miami in the Baha Mar Bahamas Hoops Championship Friday, November 17th before a second game against the same-result opponent from the Kanas State-Providence game. All games of the event will be shown on CBS Sports Network.
Mike White and company also have games set against Oregon (November 6th – Las Vegas), Wake Forest (November 10th – Athens, Ga.), Mount St. Mary’s (December 20th – Athens, Ga.), North Florida (December 22nd – Athens, Ga.) and Alabama A&M (December 30th – Athens, Ga.). Georgia is also expected to play in-state rival Georgia Tech at home, continuing a series that’s dates back to 1906 and has been played almost 200 times.
Georgia began offseason workouts earlier this month in preparation for a trip overseas in July. The Bulldogs have partnered with The VII Group – who also puts on the Holiday Hoopsgiving event at State Farm Arena in Atlanta that Georgia played in last year against Notre Dame – for a trip to take place July 20-29. Georgia will play three games against elite Italian professional teams and experience all that the country has to offer in Florence, Rome, Pompeii and Sorrento.
“It’s a great opportunity for us to get ahead a little bit,” Georgia head coach Mike White told reporters last week at SEC Spring Meetings. “The NCAA allows you 10 additional practices than you normally get in preparation for that trip. We’ll get three days over there at Rome, spend a day over there in Florence and then a couple of days to finish on the Amalfi Coast. Opportunity for guys to spend time with each other. Really everybody in our program to fast track some relationships, especially in today’s day and age in the portal and having nine new players. Excited about it. A great opportunity for us.”
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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.
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Of the nine newcomers, seven decided to come aboard since the season ended. After signing Dylan James and Mari Jordan last November in the Class of 2023.
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.
