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Georgia vs. Alabama A&M
November 24, 2006 | Men's Basketball
Georgia vs. Alabama A&M
Friday, Nov. 24, 2006 - Athens, Ga.
Tip-off Time: 7:37 p.m. (EST)
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Georgia ends its 5-game, season-opening homestand Friday night when it plays host to SWAC member Alabama A&M at Stegeman Coliseum. The red & black Bulldogs enter this game with a 3-1 record, having defeated South Carolina State 105-74 on Tuesday night. It marked the second straight game over the 100-point mark for the Bulldog offense, the first time since December of 1993 that Georgia had accomplished the feat.
This game is the second time in the past two seasons that Georgia has entertained Alabama A&M. The 2005 Georgia squad won that inaugural meeting, 71-54, on Dec. 1, 2004.
After tonight’s game, the difficulty of the Georgia schedule ratchets upward just a bit. Six of its next eight games, in fact, are against perceived “heavyweights.” This lineup begins eight days from now, when the Bulldogs travel to Wake Forest for an afternoon game on Dec. 2.
Georgia - Alabama A&M Series
• Tonight’s game marks the second all-time meeting
between these two schools in basketball. Georgia won the first game on Dec.
1, 2004, a 71-54 decision in Athens. It was Georgia’s first win of the
2005 season after opening with home losses to Western Kentucky and Nevada.
The visiting Bulldogs eventually played in the ‘05 NCAA Tournament after
winning the SWAC tournament title.
• This game is the sixth all-time meeting between Georgia
and a SWAC member. Bulldog teams are 2-0 vs. Southern and 1-0 against
Alabama State, Alabama A&M and Grambling State.
Worth Noting...
vs. South Carolina State (11/21)
The Bulldogs went over the 100-point mark for the second straight game, the first time in almost 13 years Georgia has done so...It= was the Dogs’ best offensive effort thus far, with 32 assists (most in 7 years) to just 11 turnovers...Mike Mercer had a career-high 26 points and added six assists.
vs. Valdosta State (11/18)
Takais Brown made his Georgia debut with a strong, 23-point outing...The Bulldogs went over the 100-point mark for just the second time of the Dennis Felton era...Dave Bliss (14 pts. in 14 min.) and Terrance Woodbury (career-high 17 pts.) were superb on this afternoon. vs. Western Kentucky (11/14)
On Tuesday, Nov. 14, Levi Stukes became the 36th player in Bulldog annals to cross the 1,000-point scoring barrier. The milestone was eclipsed as Stukes hit a layup with 8:06 remaining in the second half....For the third straight year in this 4-game series, the visiting team won. vs. Southern (11/10)
The Bulldogs are now 2-2 in season openers during the Felton era. Their one other victory came in his first season against Western Carolina...Southern’s 35 turnovers marked the most by a Georgia opponent since Mercer committed 40 miscues against the Bulldogs on Dec. 8, 1990. Georgia won that game 117-50...Georgia’s 21 steals against Southern marked the most by a Bulldog team since the 1993 team got 21 in a victory over Georgia College on 12/5/92...Billy Humphrey’s seven 3-pointers were the third highest total ever by a Georgia player and the most since Ezra Williams’ seven in a 2003 win over LSU.
...Is it a coincidence that the two games in which Takais Brown has played, Georgia has scored over 100 points?...And that its five primary backcourt
players -- Mercer, Gaines, Stukes, Woodbury and Humphrey -- are 18 of 35 (51%) from 3-point range in those two games? With his famously revamped jumper, Mercer missed his first eight 3-point shots of the season. In the past two games, though, he’s made seven of 13 treys...That same quintet of ballhandlers has a collective assist-to-turnover ratio of +2.3/1. Their five-man rotation of big men, however, have a ratio of -2.06/1.
...The Bulldogs have trailed for just four possessions thus far this season. Unfortunately, two of them came in the last 20 seconds of the Western Kentucky game...Hard to believe that Georgia’s whopping 33.2 points-per-game average scoring margin includes a 3-point loss...Granted, blowout margins lend themselves to more even playing time, but never before in the Felton era has court time been better divided. Sundiata Gaines, for example, is currently averaging 10 fewer minutes per agme as a junior than he did as a freshman in 2005...Three-year starter Levi Stukes is also averaging 10 fewer minutes than his busiest season of 2005.
...Georgia’s 62 percent shooting Tuesday against South Carolina State was the program’s best effort since a 62 percent game vs. Ga. Southern in November of 2001...Twice last season the Bulldogs shot over 50 percent in consecutive games...Not since the 2002-03 season, however, has Georgia shot over 55 percent in two straight games like the Bulldogs have in the past two outings. That team shot 57 and 55 percent, respectively, vs. Pitt and LSU.
