BULLDOGS’ COACHING STAFF UNDER SCRUTINY: Criticism Mounts After
ATHENS – Georgia’s basketball season has been fun so far, an absolute smorgasbord of warm feelings and highlight moments. But all that will be up for grabs tomorrow night at Stegeman Coliseum. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are coming to town. And while they aren’t exactly Digger Phelps’ Irish of the late 1970s, they remain an iconic power-conference opponent making a rare appearance in Athens on the Bulldogs’ home court. “I mean, they’re very, very good and extremely well-coached,” Georgia coach Mike White said of Notre Dame. “They’re going to be really prepared. They’re just a solid, solid team and program. And, you know, for us, it’s about the preparation, about playing well, continuing to get better, and hopefully that puts us in a position to be competitive down the stretch.”
The Bulldogs (7-1) are looking to make a statement. Riding a 23-game, non-conference winning streak at Stegeman Coliseum, Georgia is hoping the see its arena packed up to its iconic parabola roof for Tuesday’s 7 p.m. game (ESPNU), which is one of several marquee matchups this week that will make up the annual ACC-SEC Challenge.
When White arrived from Florida three years, his primary charge was to make UGA basketball nationally relevant and its home games appointment events in the same way Georgia football has been for decades. For the most part, White has done that. Georgia debuted at No. 27 in the first NCAA NET rankings of the season, released Monday morning.
“Well, we’re hopeful that we get a really good turnout,” White said. “We’ve got guys that are laying it on the line every day and play hard between the lines. We’ve got talented guys that are laying out on the floor and diving for loose balls and sharing it with each other and that I think are doing a really good job representing all of us here at Georgia. And we’d be appreciative for a great turnout and give us a chance to play well against a high-level program.
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