ATHENS – The SEC office has given Georgia’s basketball the opportunity to make a statement with the revised schedule that was sent on Thursday afternoon.
At least, that is the positive way of looking at things.
The Bulldogs (14-9, 7-9 SEC) will host first place Alabama (18-6, 13-2) at 2 pm on March 6 at the Stegeman Coliseum (TV: CBS).
The game with Tide essentially replaces 12th place Texas A&M (8-7, 2-6) on the Georgia calendar.
The rescheduling means that Georgia will have played four of the SEC’s top six teams twice this season: Alabama, LSU, Florida and Ole Miss. So far, Bulldogs are 3-4 in those games.
South Carolina (13th place) is the other team that UGA will have played twice, since the game scheduled for 13h this Saturday at the Stegeman Coliseum happens.
Alabama mistreated the Bulldogs on February 13 in Tuscaloosa, 115-82, reaching a remarkable 60 percent (18 of 30) beyond the 3-point range, while Georgia struggled to make only 2 of 19 out of three.
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The Bulldogs played a porous defense that day at the Coleman Coliseum, unable to stop the ball in the transition and being caught in an aid defense.
Alabama fans celebrated the victory, using social media to continue mocking Georgia fans, who were frustrated by the football team’s inability to beat Tide under Kirby Smart (0-3).
Alabama basketball raised the score for Georgia in the final minutes of the last game, hitting three, despite having an advantage of more than 20 points.
Since then, Georgia has recovered and won two of its last three games, beating the NCAA, Missouri (80-70) and LSU (91-78) tournament teams at the Stegeman Coliseum.
Still, when the SEC’s tournament odds were released earlier this week, Georgia was down 100-1. The league tournament will be held March 10-14 at Bridgestone Arena, with approximately 3,400 fans (20 percent) allowed to participate.
The final scramble of the schedule, the result of games postponed because of COVID-19, means that Georgia will not play against Texas A&M this season.