Georgia basketball doesn't need 'confidence boosters'

I'm happy for Charles Mann and Georgia's basketball players. Mann won a pressure game for Georgia with his play. He did it at the free throw line with 2.5 seconds left in a tie game that Georgia came from a second half deficit. It was a team effort in the comeback win.

That against Western Carolina, a team predicted to finish fourth in the Southern Conference. The Catamount's best win this season was over UNC-Ashville in the season opener. They also have losses to RPI#319 Wright State and RPI#222 Coastal Carolina. Now they have a loss to RPI#276 Georgia.

While a win is a win in the minds of most Georgia basketball fans, that Georgia was down as much as ten points in the second half to a team that it should be handling, even on an off day, is terrifying to me.

That isn't a confidence booster. That's just the state of Georgia basketball.

Coach Fox on the upcoming road trip (which includes a trip to 10-1 Colorado, 9-1 George Washington, and 10-0 Missouri):

“We’re much better after these five games,” Fox said. “...We’re getting some teeth into it right now. I think we’ve gotten a lot of experiences that we needed and now it’s time to go test them.”

I hope he's right, because it looks like three lopsided losses from where I'm sitting.
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