Georgia Bulldogs NCAA Basketball News

Trey Thompkins scored 19 points and Georgia rallied in the second half to defeat Jacksonville State 67-64 Friday.

Following John Calipari at Memphis won't be easy. Not after what he was able to accomplish in Graceland in nine seasons.

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.

Junior guard Elijah Millsap looks for an open line to the basket in Bulldog territory during Saturday's , match at Bartow Top Videos new Terry Turner , Sports Contributor Published On: 11/23/2009 The Blazers defeated the University of Georgia's men's basketball team, 72-56 at Bartow Arena on Saturday night, Nov.

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.

Last season, it took a 25-foot buzzer-beater in overtime from former Georgia guard Zac Swansey to down the Wofford College Terriers 74-73 in Stegeman Coliseum.

The UAB men's basketball team will play its first home contest of the 2009-10 campaign when it hosts Southeastern Conference foe Georgia on Saturday night at 7 p.m. The contest marks the first time UAB has played an opponent from the Southeastern Conference at Bartow Arena since Jan.

As a youngster with dreams of playing college basketball , Ashley Houts became enthralled with the happenings at McKenzie Arena.

Georgia's Trey Thompkins, right, rebounds the ball against UNO during their season opener Friday night in Athens, Ga.

ATHENS a ' Cameron Rundles made both ends of a 1-and-1 with 3.1 seconds remaining to give Wofford a stunning 60-57 victory against Georgia on Tuesday.

Typically, nonconference play in college basketball is a lot like YouTube. Occasionally you'll come across a pre-January game worth watching -- an instant classic such as "Dramatic Prairie Dog" or "Boom Goes the Dynamite" -- but mostly it's a lot of filler.

The Georgia Hoop Dogs got off to a perfect 1-0 start under head coach Mark Fox last night, when they defeated the New Orleans Privateers 67-59 at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens.

Georgia's Trey Thompkins, right, rebounds the ball against UNO during their season opener Friday night in Athens, Ga.

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.

Since Mark Fox became Georgia 's men's basketball coach in April, things have been upbeat around a long-subdued program.

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

Georgia's Travis Leslie goes up during the first half for one of his three dunks during the game.

On a night where he was the featured attraction, Mark Fox tried to call as little attention to himself as possible.

So far, so good. With a Trey Thompkins slam with 19:15 on the clock in the first half, the first points of the Mark Fox era were on the board, and the route of North Georgia was officially underway, as the Georgia men's basketball team cruised to a dominating 87-53 victory Friday night.

Fans can catch a sneak peek at Mark Fox's new-look Bulldogs today when Georgia plays North Georgia in an exhibition at Stegeman Coliseum.