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The Georgia Bullodgs will take their talents to Knoxville looking to sweep the Tennessee Volunteers for the first time in 11 years on Saturday.
The Georgia Bulldogs have now loss six of their last seven games after falling 73-62 to the Tennessee Volunteers, and are sitting at 1-7 in league play. Tennessee used a big second half to pull away from Georgia to win 73-62. Georgia started off the second half strong and built a seven point lead, but then Tennessee went on a 11-0 run to take a lead that they would not relinquish the rest of the game.
The main differences in this game was the free throw shooting and bench play, Tennessee was more agressive and made it to the free throw line 37 times and made 28 of them, while Georgia went 15 for 20. As for bench play Tennessee out scored Georgia 34 to 16 and it did not help that as a team Georgia shot only 36 percent from the field.
The leading scorers for Georgia were Kentavious Caldwell-Pope who had 16 points and Dustin Ware with 15.
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The Georgia Bulldogs will play their second consecutive road game as they take their talents to Knoxville to face the Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday night. The Bulldogs will look to win their second contest versus Tennessee as Mark Fox's team defeated the Volunteers 57-53 in overtime on January 18th.
One big point of focus for Fox on his team has been the ability to play efficiently as his youthful squad has been prone to silly mistakes and lapses in judgement this season.
"There’s some fundamental things we didn’t do right that are correctable, but we got to recognize those things in the middle of possessions," Fox said. "We just can’t spend all our timeouts trying to address those things. We’ve got to do some things in the middle of possessions and recognize things so we can be more efficient."
The Bulldogs haven't swept the Volunteers in eleven years, but it would be something to grow on for a young team looking for small victories.
Date / Time: Saturday, February 4, 8:00 p.m. ET
Location: Thompson-Boling Arena - Knoxville, Tennessee
TV: Fox Sports Net South
Radio: Georgia Radio Network, Sirius XM 199
Streaming: ESPN3
Line: Tennessee (-7.5)
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SEC Basketball Standings: Florida Surging, Georgia Collapsing
The Georgia Bulldogs (10-12, 1-7) have lost seven of their last eight games, all in conference play, and are fast fading into obscurity in the SEC basketball league standings. Meanwhile, the Florida Gators (19-4 9-1) have emerged as the best possible contender to knock off No. 1 nationally ranked Kentucky (23-1, 9-0 SEC), thanks in part to emerging Gators center Patric Young. The Dawgs have two games this week, against the 4-4 Arkansas Razorbacks at home, and a Saturday road game at Mississippi State (5-3 SEC).
Southeastern Conference Standings
(updated 2.6.2012 at 2:00 AM CST)
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Feb 06 8:43a by Steven Godfrey