Georgia Basketball releases details on upcoming season's schedule
Georgia Basketball and the SEC released details for the upcoming season’s conference schedule on Tuesday. Dates and opponents for Saturday showdowns were confirmed while the remaining matchups and opponents were set for either Tuesday or Wednesdays throughout the months of January, February and March.
The Bulldogs will open SEC play on Saturday, January 4th with a road trip to Ole Miss before returning home on Tuesday or Wednesday (January 7/8) to play Kentucky. Oklahoma follows that on Saturday the 11th, creating one of two back-to-backs at Stegeman Coliseum.
Georgia will host in total five Saturday games (Auburn – January 18, Mississippi State – February 8, Missouri – February 14, Vanderbilt – March 8 in addition to Oklahoma) with South Carolina (January 28/29) LSU (February 4/5) and Florida (February 25/26) also making trips to the Classic City. Other road games for the Bulldogs include the following: Tennessee (January 14/15), Arkansas (January 21/22), Florida (January 25), Alabama (February 1), Texas A&M (February 11/12), Auburn (February 22), Texas (March 1) and South Carolina (March 4/5).
In addition to the SEC scheduling news, Georgia also confirmed a date for its annual rivalry matchup against Georgia Tech. The Bulldogs and Yellow Jackets will meet at McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta on Friday, November 15th. It adds to the four already confirmed games against Marquette (November 23 – Bahamas), St. John’s (November 24 – Bahamas), Notre Dame (December 3 – Athens) and Grand Canyon (December 14 – Atlanta). Reported matchups include the following, all at home: Tennessee Tech (November 4), Texas Southern (November 10), North Florida (November 12), Alabama A&M (November 19), Buffalo (December 19), Charleston Southern (December 22) and South Carolina State (December 29). UGA has yet to confirm reports on the matchups against those seven opponents.
Last year, Georgia was the only team in the six basketball power conferences to play a pair of games against power conference opponents to open the season and took on six in total (Oregon, Wake Forest, Miami, Providence, Florida State, Georgia Tech) across the 13 non-conference games. It helped prepare the Bulldogs for when they made an appearance in the NIT, making a run to the semifinals with wins over Xavier, Wake Forest and Ohio State including the latter two on the road.
Georgia will be led by a trio of returnees from last year’s team that won 20 games for the first time in eight seasons. Freshman All-SEC point guard Silas Demary returns alongside Blue Cain and Dylan James and will be joined by a talented cast of newcomers. In the Class of 2024, the Bulldogs signed five-star plus+ forward Asa Newell, former Kentucky commit Somto Cyril, Serbian international standout Savo Drezgic as well as 2025 reclass Jordyn Kee. Meanwhile, by way of the transfer portal, UGA added the likes of DeShayne Montgomery (Mount St. Mary’s), Justin Abson (Appalachian State), Dakota Leffew (Mount St. Mary’s), RJ Godfrey (Clemson) and Tyrin Lawrence (Vanderbilt).
