Ricky McPhee News

Ricky McPhee, a walk-on until this year, scored a career-high 20 points to lead Georgia to a 79-58 win over North Carolina-Asheville on Tuesday night.

Even though only one member of this year's North Carolina Tar Heels basketball team played against Gardner-Webb in the 2005-06 season the last time the schools met, UNC should certainly remember the Bulldogs tonight when the teams meet in Chapel Hill.

Georgia's Ricky McPhee has struggled with his outside shot this season, only connecting on 2-of-10 from three-point range.

Mark Fox's debut as Georgia's coach wasn't the rousing success he might have liked, judging by either the uneven 67-59 final score or the half-full Stegeman Coliseum arena that greeted the new coach on his first night.

Trey Thompkins scored 25 points, Ricky McPhee hit a huge 3-pointer and Georgia pulled out a win in Mark Fox's coaching debut, beating New Orleans 67-59 tonight.

Cady Lalanne didn't know he was making school history until he was about to do it.

Georgia has finished in last place in the SEC's Eastern Division in five of the past six seasons, and that dreary trend figures to extend this season.

It has been a half-year since Georgia introduced Mark Fox as its new basketball coach.

Before focusing on leading Georgia to an NCAA tournament appearance, first-year coach Mark Fox has a more pressing need.

Mark Fox has already bagged one late-season recruit, but he wants to be careful about who else he might add to his first class.