January 22, 2025 – Bulldawg Illustrated

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MBB: The Bulldogs head to Fayetteville to begin a 2 League Road Games

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  • Georgia opens a two-game road trip by traveling to Fayetteville to face Arkansas on Wednesday night at Bud Walton Arena. The Bulldogs will face no. 5/6 Florida on Saturday in Gainesville.
  • Georgia, which played five evenly-ranked opponents to begin the SEC campaign, is in the midst of a six-game span with four top-10 opponents — No. 6/6 Tennessee, no. 1/1 Auburn, no. 5/6 Florida and no. 4/3 Alabama – with three of those matchups coming.
  • Mike White has now led three programs with losing records the season before making the top-25 AP rankings in less than three years. He also did so at Louisiana Tech (12-20 in 2010-11 to No. 25 in 2013) and Florida (16-17 in 2014-15 to No. 12 during the “Elite Eight” campaign in 2017).
  • The Bulldogs entered the week ranked 31.8 in an average of six popular metrics (NET, KenPom, Torvik, KPI, BPI and SOR) – up 187.2 spots since Mike White became UGA’s head coach.
  • Asa Newell has been named SEC Freshman of the Week three times, the second most ever by a Bulldog behind only Anthony Edwards’ four certificates during the 2019-20 season.

Opening tip
The Georgia Bulldogs open a two-game road swing this week by traveling to Fayetteville to take on Arkansas on Wednesday night at Bud Walton Arena. Georgia will then venture to Gainesville to face the Florida Gators no. 5/6 on Saturday.

Georgia is 14-4 overall and 2-3 in open league play, with all five league foes to date ranked – no. 24/23 Ole Miss, no. 6/7 Kentucky, no. 17/16 Oklahoma, no. 6 /6 Tennessee and no. 1/1 Auburn.

This is life in the SEC in 2025.

The Arkansas game is the third in a six-game span when the Bulldogs will play four top-10 teams. Georgia dropped decisions to No. 6/6, Tennessee and no. 1/1 Auburn last week, and after playing no. 5/6 in Florida on Saturday, it will take on the no. 4/3 Alabama the following Saturday.

Georgia’s balanced offense includes seven players who have led the Bulldogs in one or more games. Two more players have posted double-digit scoring results. All told, the nine Bulldogs have produced 70 double-digit performances.

Asa Newellwho was named SEC Freshman of the Week for the third time this season last Monday, leads a trio of Bulldogs with an average of 15.3 ppg. He also paces UGA on the boards at 6.8 rpg. Among the league leaders, Newell is ranked No. 17 in scoring and no. 13 in rebounds – including an SEC-best 3.4 offensive boards per game. He is also no. 3 SEC and no. 37 nationally in field goal percentage (.570).

A single point separates the production of Georgia’s other double-digit scorers, with Dakota Leffew at 11.8 ppg and Silas Demary Jr. at 11.7 ppg.

Scouting The Razorbacks
Arkansas is 11-7 overall and 0-5 in the SEC to date. The Razorbacks spent six of the first eight weeks of the season ranked in the nation’s top 25 before league play began.

Adou Theiro, who transferred from Kentucky to stay with head coach John Calipari, leads Arkansas in both scoring (16.4 ppg) and rebounding (6.0 rpg).

Freshman Boogie Fland, who contributes 15.1 ppg, paces the Razorbacks with 5.7 apg and has an even more stellar 3.68 assist-to-turnover ratio. DJ Wagner, another Kentucky transfer, is also scoring at a double-digit clip for Arkansas at 10.1 ppg.

Series history with Arkansas
Arkansas enters Wednesday’s matchup with Georgia with a 27-17 advantage in the all-time series.

The Bulldogs and Razorbacks split a home-and-home series last season, with each team winning on their home court.

In the most recent meeting on Feb. 10 in Fayetteville, Georgia battled back from a 12-point second-half deficit to take a 66-65 lead with just under four minutes remaining, but could not complete the comeback and fell 78-75 at . Arkansas.

The Dogs and Hogs traded the lead five times over the final 3:57 of the contest. The Razorbacks went on top for good with 54 seconds left.

A month earlier to the day, Georgia never trailed en route to a 76-66 victory over Arkansas at Stegeman Coliseum on Jan. 19.

The Bulldogs scored the game’s first six points and never looked back. The lead ballooned to 13 before Georgia settled for a 34-24 halftime lead. Arkansas went back into the game and trailed by three on three occasions; however, the Bulldogs responded each time.

Last Time Out
No. 1/1 Auburn built a 27-9 early lead, then withstood several valiant comeback attempts from No. 23/23 Georgia to secure a 70-68 victory over the Bulldogs before a sellout crowd at Stegeman Coliseum last Saturday.

Georgia made it a one-possession game four times before the Tigers pushed their advantage to 69-60 with 41 seconds left. A final furious rally cut the margin to 70-67 before the Bulldogs failed to tie the game twice in the final 10 seconds, with a Dakota Leffew 3-pointer rimming out and one Asa Newell jumper at the buzzer drawing front iron.

The loss snapped the Bulldogs’ 13-game hitting streak at Stegeman, which tied for the fourth-longest home hitting streak in program history.

“(We) better rest tomorrow and feel better on Monday,” head coach Mike White said. “Our guys understand there are some areas we can improve. Auburn has a lot of winning experience. We hope to be a team that is the same over time. Who knows when that is, but that’s the hope. (I) hope , that this team can reach their ceiling. There are a few things we could have done better, of course, but when you play some of the best teams in the country, your warts are exposed a little bit. It’s a little easier to resonate with ours guys. So we’ll look forward to trying to consolidate as soon as possible to see on Monday and discuss it.”

GYM: Georgia adds Clemson Quad Meet to schedule

The 13thth-ranked University of Georgia GymDogs have added a road meet at No. 24 Clemson on Friday, February 28. The meet will now be a quad meet with the Bulldogs and Tigers along with New Hampshire and Texas Woman’s University.

Tickets for the event, billed as the annual Military Appreciation Day and will begin at 5 p.m. at Little John Coliseum, are available at ClemsonTigers.com. A minimal number of tickets will be available from day to day as walk-ups on a first-come, first-served basis.

Georgia will host the No. 6 Kentucky at Stegeman Coliseum two days later on Sunday, March 2 at

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