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Georgia Basketball will begin its 2011-12 season Friday night against the Wofford Terriers at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens. Tip off is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. and can be seen on Comcast Sports Southeast or via the web on ESPN 3.
The Georgia Bulldogs basketball team will tip off its 2011-12 season Friday night at Stegeman Coliseum against the Southern Conference foe Wofford. The Bulldogs have won seven of eight meetings against Wofford with the Terriers scoring a 60-57 upset victory in their last trip to Athens in 2009.
Tonight will be the debut of the new look Bulldogs post Travis Leslie and Trey Thompkins who left after their junior seasons for the NBA. The backcourt will be manned by familiar faces of Dustin Ware and Gerald Robinson but former walk-on Connor Nolte is the only other player on the roster that has ever started a regular season game.
Sophomores Marcus Thornton and Donte Williams are expected to get big minutes in the frontcourt this season while Fox also figures to inject top recruit Kentavious Caldwell-Pope into the lineup at some point. Junior college transfer John Florveus and freshman Nemanja Djurisic got the start in the Bulldogs' exhibition win over Morehouse.
Tip off is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. in Athens and will be preceded by the Lady Bulldogs' season opener with TCU. The game will be televised regionally on Comcast Sports and will be streamed online via ESPN 3. AM 750 in Atlanta will be broadcasting the game live over the airways.
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Georgia Basketball Vs. Wofford Final Score: Bulldogs Defeat Terriers, 62-49
The Georgia Bulldogs were able to come away with 62-49 victory over the Wofford Terriers. The Bulldgogs were led in scoring by freshman Kentavious Caldwell-Pope who had 15 points and Dustin Ware who had 14 points. Caldwell-Pope scored 13 of his 15 points in the first half and did not score in the second half until he connected on a pair of free throws with under a minute left in the game.
Georgia was always in control of this game but they were not able to pull away to a bigger lead due to only shooting 33 percent from the field and 68 percent from the free throw line. Luckily the Georgia defense was able to hold Wofford to 34 percent from the field and forced them to take a lot of three-pointers which resulted in a 3-of-15 showing.
Wofford was led by senior guard Brad Loesing who scored 13 points, five rebounds and four assists. Loesing was one of three Wofford players to score in double-digits, but it was the Wofford perimeter defense that was the difference as they allowed Georgia to make seven three-point shots compared to Wofford's three .
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Nov 11 11:25p by Jeremy Mauss