Georgia Basketball SEC opponents set for upcoming season
Georgia Basketball has its SEC opponents set for the 2023-24 season. The Bulldogs in year two under the direction of Mike White will look to improve upon their 16-16 record from 2022-23, one that saw them go 6-12 in conference play.
Georgia will play home-and-homes with Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, LSU and South Carolina. The Bulldogs will host Alabama, Ole Miss, Tennessee and Texas A&M while traveling to Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri and Vanderbilt.
Dates for the games have yet to be announced. However, some have been for the non-conference slate that Georgia will play prior to SEC competition.
Georgia opens the season against Oregon (November 6th) in Las Vegas before returning home to host Wake Forest (November 10th). Then, it’s a trip to the Bahamas for the Baha Mar Bahamas Hoops Championship where the Bulldogs will open up against Miami (November 17th) before playing the same-result opponent from the matchup between Kansas State and Providence. All five of those teams played in the postseason last year including each of the teams in the Bahamas tournament in the big dance.
Other opponents include 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.
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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.
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.
