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Georgia (13-7, 5-3 SEC)
at Vanderbilt (15-7, 5-3 SEC)
Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007
Nashville, Tenn.
Tip-off Time: 7:07 p.m. (EST)
TV: Fox SportSouth
With Kentucky's win (6-2 in the SEC) today over Arkansas in Fayetteville, tonight's match-up between the Dores and Dawgs is for sole possession of third place in the SEC East. A UGA win would also give Georgia the tie-breaker over Vandy for SEC tourney seeding should it become necessary. A win would also give the Dawgs the SEC's 3rd best overall record.
Georgia has won five of the last eight meetings between the teams.
From Georgiadogs.com Game Notes:
- Tonight’s game is the return matchup of the meeting that was played in Athens three weeks ago. The Bulldogs withstood Vanderbilt’s torrid first-half shooting (10x16 3-pt. FGs) to prevail 85-73. Georgia got offensive leadership from its likely sources -- Sundiata Gaines and Levi Stukes -- but also from some less likely places, too: namely, reserve guard Billy Humphrey (17 pts.) and center Dave Bliss (10 pts, 8 rebs.).
- Saturday’s game is the 122nd meeting between these two schools in basketball. Vanderbilt leads the series, which began in 1914, by a 76-45 count.
- This year marks the 50th time that Georgia and Vanderbilt have played a home-and-home, regular-season series. Georgia has swept the series just seven times, most recently in 2001.
- Oddly, these two programs have met twice in post-season play on their respective home courts. Georgia defeated Vanderbilt at Memorial Gymnasium in the 1991 SEC Tournament second round. Seven years later, Georgia defeated Vandy at Stegeman Coliseum in the NIT third round.
- Georgia has won just 13 times in Nashville. Nine of those have come since the Hugh Durham era began in 1979. Durham was 4-14 at Memorial Gym, his successors have gone thusly in that arena: Tubby Smith 1-1, Ron Jirsa 2-0, Jim Harrick
1-1 and Dennis Felton 1-2.
-- UGA vs. Vanderbilt Preview - AP
-- Trying to Stay Energized - AJC
-- Looking to End Road Woes - Macon Telegraph
-- Protecting the Perimeter - ABH
PWD
1 comments:
Ugh. Better effort than the other night, but still... and I realize Felton knows more about college basketball than 99.9% of us, but I hope I'm not alone in sometimes thinking "WHY WON'T YOU JUST BENCH MERCER FOR A LITTLE WHILE?!?"
Lately it just seems like if he's not taking an NBA range 3 five seconds into the new shot clock he's dribbling all out of control between 4 defenders and turning the ball over. : /
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