Dogs Set To Break Attendance Record...Again

Georgia Basketball Game Notes
Georgia (14-14, 4-11 SEC) vs. Arkansas (18-10, 6-9 SEC)
Saturday, February 29 at 6:00 p.m. ET
Stegeman Coliseum (10,523) in Athens, Ga.
Radio: Georgia Bulldog Sports Network Flagship: WSB AM 750 Atlanta. (Scott Howard, play-by-play; Chuck Dowdle, analyst; Tony Schiavone, producer) | Affiliates
TV: SEC Network (Dave Neal, play-by-play; Debbie Antonelli, analyst)
Video Stream: SECN+
Satellite: Sirius; 84; XM: 84; Internet: 84
UA leads, 23-15
Last Meeting: UA, 70-60, on 1/29/19

No.	Name	PPG	RPG

Georgia Bulldogs
Coach: Tom Crean
25-35 in 2nd season at UGA
381-266 in 20th season overall
2	Jordan Harris	6.2	3.7
6-5; 195; Sr.; Iron City, Ga.
5	Anthony Edwards	19.5	5.4
6-5; 225; Fr.; Atlanta, Ga.
10	Toumani Camara	6.6	4.4
6-8; 220; Fr.; Brussels, Belgium
15	Sahvir Wheeler	8.8	2.4
5-10; 180; Fr.; Houston, Texas
20	Rayshaun Hammonds	12.4	7.1
6-9; 235; Jr.; Norcross, Ga.

No.	Name	PPG	RPG

Arkansas Razorbacks
Coach: Eric Musselman
8-10 in 1st season at UA
128-44 in 5th season overall
1	isaiah Joe	16.5	4.2
6-5; 176; Soph.; Fort Smith, Ark.
2	Adrio Bailey	6.9	4.5
6-6; 222; Jr.; Clarence, La.
15	Mason Jones	21.1	5.8
6-5; 200; Jr.; Desoto, Texas
24	Ethan Henderson	1.3	2.0
6-8; 210; Soph.; Little Rock, Ark.
33	Jimmy Whitt Jr.;	14.1	4.8
6-3; 175; Gr.; Columbia, Mo.

TEAM COMPARISON

2019-20 STATISTICS	GEORGIA	ARKANSAS
Points Per Game	76.1	74.4
Opp. Point Per Game	75.1	67.5
Scoring Margin	+0.9	+6.9
Field Goal Pct.	.447	.439
Opp. Field Goal Pct.	.449	.421
3-Point Pct.	.300	.323
3-Pointers Per Game	7.1	7.2
pp. 3-Point Pct.	.320	.254
Free Throw Pct.	.702	.731
Free Throws Per Game	14.6	16.9
Rebounds Per Game	38.4	31.6
Opp. Rebound Per Game	36.4	38.3
Rebound Margin	+2.0	-6.6
Assists Per Game	13.6	11.6
Turnovers Per Game	15.1	11.8
Assist-to-Turnover Ratio	0.90	0.98
Turnover Margin	-1.6	+4.7
Steals Per Game	7.5	8.3
Blocks Per Game	3.4	3.1

The Starting 5...

Anthony Edwards' 547 points is the second-most ever by a UGA freshman and is 99 points away from the freshman record held by Jacky Dorsey.
Sahvir Wheeler's 121 assists represent the second-most ever by a UGA freshman. He is 12 passes-to-baskets shy of Litterial Green's UGA freshman record.
Toumani Camara scored in double figures once in UGA's first 16 games but has reached double digits six times in the last eight outings.
UGA has drawn 144,047 fans at home this season, 4,653 off its total attendance record of 148,700 set last season. Both of UGA's remaining home dates are sold out.
Georgia's celebrated freshman class – ranked among the top-10 groups nationally by every recruiting service – features five of the nation's top-100 prospects.

The Opening Tip

Georgia returns to its loyal – and ever-expanding – fan base to host Arkansas on Saturday night with the potential of a pair record-setting numbers via the Stegeman Coliseum turnstiles.

The Bulldogs have drawn 144,047 total fans for their 15 home games to date. That's 4,653 shy of the program's total attendance record of 147,800 fans a year ago. Considering the the Arkansas contest and next Wednesday's home date with Florida are already sold out, a new total attendance record is likely to top the existing mark by a significant margin.

In addition, Georgia has drawn nine crowds of 10,000-fans this season. That ties the 2002-03 campaign for the most five-digit attendance tallies in school history. That record seems to have a short self-life remaining as well.

Georgia is 14-14 overall this season, including an impressive a 11-4 mark in home outings. The Bulldogs are averaging 79.9 points per game at Stegeman Coliseum and own a +9.8 scoring margin in home dates.

Anthony Edwards, who on Monday was named SEC Freshman of the Week for a school-record third time, leads Georgia at 19.5 points per game. Edwards, one of only two freshmen on the 20-player late-season Wooden Award Watch List, is the nation's top-scoring freshman. The Atlanta native has reached double figures in the scoring column in 24 of 28 games, with 12 20-point outings and three 30-point efforts.

Game Promotions

The first 1,250 UGA students in attendance at Saturday's game will receive a "This Is My Georgia Shirt" t-shirt.

Keeping An Eye On . . . Entering Today's Game Among UGA's career Leaders

Tyree Crump is...
• 12 3FGs from No. 9 Bernard Davis
• 20 3FGAs from No. 7 Dustin Ware

Among UGA's Freshman Leaders - Anthony Edwards is...
• 99 points from No. 1 Jacky Dorsey

Among UGA's Freshman Leaders Sahvir Wheeler is...
• 12 assists from No. 1 Litterial Green

Series History

Despite a 9-6 advantage by Georgia in games played in Athens, Arkansas owns a 23-15 lead in the all-time series with the Bulldogs.

Last season on Jan. 29 in Fayetteville, Arkansas pulled away late en route to a 70-60 win over Georgia in a back-and-forth contest that featured seven ties and seven lead changes.

The Bulldogs opened with an 11-2 run over the first 4:29 and remained on top for virtually the entire first half before Arkansas inched to a 31-29 at the break.

The Hogs built a 52-45 lead at the 8:32 mark, but the Dogs rallied again to knot the score two minutes later. An Isaiah Joe 3-pointer with 5:06 left initiated an 18-8 surge the rest of the way.

In the most recent matchup at Stegeman Coliseum on Jan. 23, 2018, Arkansas outscored Georgia 11-8 in a second overtime to give the Razorbacks an 80-77 victory.

Georgia led for a majority of the game – 31:36 of 50 minutes to be exact – but the Razorbacks shot 57.1 percent from 3-point range in overtime to seal the win.

Georgia raced to a 29-13 lead with 6:06 left in the first half. Arkansas trimmed that margin to five at the break and then earned its first lead at 50-48 with 10:12 left in regulation.

Jordan Harris tied the game at 63-63 with five seconds left to force overtime. Harris made one of two free throws with 35 seconds left in the first extra period to tie the game at 69-69 before both the Hogs and Dogs both missed potential game winners thereafter.

Daryl Macon's three 3-pointers in the second overtime proved to be the difference.

Scouting The Razorbacks

Arkansas is currently 18-10 overall but just 6-9 in SEC play. Mason Jones paces the Razorbacks in virtually every statistic, including averages of 20.9 points, 5.9 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.6 steals per game.

The Razorbacks' season can be broken into two distinct segments – "with Joe" and "without Joe." With a healthy Isaiah Joe, Arkansas is 15-3. When Joe has been injured, the Razorbacks are 3-7.

Joe, who along with Anthony Edwards is among leading candidates for the Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award, initially injured his right knee on Jan. 11 at Ole Miss. He then aggravated the injury against Mississippi State on Jan. 22.

After trying to play through the pain, Joe underwent arthroscopic debridement surgery on Feb. 4 to remove fragments from his knee.

The Razorbacks then lost five straight contests before Joe returned for a win over Missouri last weekend. Arkansas won again on Wednesday, defeating Tennessee.

Last Time Out...

Anthony Edwards scored 36 points – and moved to No. 2 among Georgia's all-time freshman scoring leaders in the process – but the Bulldogs still suffered a 94-90 overtime setback to South Carolina on Wednesday.

The contest was as evenly matched as possible, with 21 ties and 17 lead changes. Of the contest's 45 minutes of action, Georgia led for 17:28, South Carolina was on top for 17:56 and the score was tied for 9:10.

The Gamecocks took the lead for good with 58 seconds remaining in overtime on a Keyshawn Bryant stickback.

The Bulldogs And Leap Years

The Arkansas game represents the fourth time Georgia has played on Feb. 29 in 115 seasons of basketball.

The Bulldogs are 2-2 in contests contested on the extra day of leap years, last defeating Florida, 69-60, in Gainesville in 1992.

Prior to this weekend, Georgia's last leap year home game also was the Bulldogs' first-ever loss at Stegeman, which was then known as the Georgia Coliseum. Florida knocked off the Bulldogs, 69-64, in 1964. That was Georgia's third game in the venue after victories over Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt.

In addition, Georgia defeated Ole Miss, 45-28, in the 1940 SEC Tournament and lost to Florida State, 95-82, in Tallahassee in 1960.

Dogs Drawing At Record Pace

Georgia is set to establish a new all-time total attendance record at the Arkansas game.

A year ago, 148,700 fans came through the Stegeman turnstiles to break the previous record by more than 9,000.

Georgia's total attendance this season is 144,047, just 4,653 shy of the current record.

Tom Crean has credited fan support as an integral part of UGA's home success, most notably after a December win over SMU.

"We don't win this game without this crowd," Crean said bluntly in his postgame press conference. "We do not win this game without this incredible, passionate, stick-with-us, not let us drop crowd. I reminded the players a few times that we're sitting here in basically a sold-out game, and these fans are not giving up on you, so don't give up on yourself. I'm extremely proud of how we found a way to win, and I'm unbelievably thankful for our fans."

And after Auburn win, Crean opened his postgame radio show with: "The fans were here and on their feet. The win is awesome, there's no question about it, and I'm happy for our team, but the bottom line is that shows we're building a program. We are going through growing pains and hard days. We are going through adversity. But you don't get a program built if you lose momentum with your fans. They are staying with us, and I'm so thankful for that. To have everybody here like that supporting us on a Wednesday night means an awful lot. So thank you Dawg Nation, from the bottom of my heart and all of this team."

Georgia's average home attendance this season is 9,603, which is on pace to be the second-best tally in program history (trailing only 9,857 in 2002-03).

Another Potential Crowd Record

Against Auburn, the Bulldogs drew a ninth 10,000-plus attendance count of the season. That matched the 2002-03 campaign for the most in school history.

With both the Arkansas and Florida games already sold-out, that mark is all but certain to be broken as well. The only seats that remain for those contests are the 2,000 student tickets that are filled on a first-come, first-served basis on game days.

Edwards, Wheeler Up To No. 2 On UGA Freshman Leaders Ledgers

Anthony Edwards and Sahvir Wheeler are now No. 2 among Georgia's all-time freshman leaders for points and assists, respectively, as outlined below.

Edwards joined the Bulldogs top-10 season scoring efforts by a freshman in just the 18th game of the season at No. 15 Kentucky on Jan. 21. Over the next four outings, Edwards ascended all the way up to the No. 4 position.

Edwards' current scoring pace of 19.5 ppg would be the second-best by a freshman in UGA history and would put him at 605 points at the end of the regular-season slate.

Wheeler's eight assists against Alabama on Feb. 8 gave him exactly 100 passes-to-points this season. He became just the sixth Georgia freshman to record 100 assists and the first to do so in just over a decade, since Dustin Ware did so during the 2008-09 season.

Wheeler is within striking distance of the Bulldogs' freshman assist record, entering the Arkansas game 12 off that mark. His current pace would give Wheeler 138 assists at the end of the regular season.

UGA's Top-10 Freshman Scorers
	Player	Pts.	Year	G	Avg.
1.	Jacky Dorsey	646	1975	25	25.8
2.	Anthony Edwards	547	2020	28	19.5
2.	Jumaine Jones	515	1998	35	14.7
4.	Litterial Green	481	1989	31	15.5
5.	Cedric Henderson	433	1985	28	15.5

UGA's Top-10 Freshman Assists
	Player	Pts.	Year	G	Avg.
1.	Litterial Green	133	1989	31	4.3
2.	Sahvir Wheeler	121	2020	27	4.5
3.	Dustin Ware	108	2009	32	3.4
4.	Moses White	105	2000	29	3.6
5.	Rashad Wright	103	2001	31	3.3

Crump Joins Top-10 For 3-Pointers

Tyree Crump's 3-pointer with 13:06 left in the first half of the South Carolina game on Feb. 26 pushed him into the No. 10 position among Georgia's all-time leaders for successful shots behind the arc.

The Bainbridge, Ga., native equaled the current No. 10 effort of Jody Patton.

Crump ascended into Georgia's all-time top-10 career leaders in 3-point field goal attempts at Arizona State on Dec. 14.

He enters the Arkansas game currently ranked No. 10 in makes and No. 8 in takes as outlined below.

UGA Career 3FGA Leaders
Rk.	No.	Player	Seasons	3FGAs
1.	261	Levi Stukes	2003-07	683
2.	231	D.A. Lane	1999-01	583
3.	215	Litterial Green	1989-92	544
4.	213	Ezra Williams	2001-03	582
	213	Kenny Gaines	2013-16	569
6.	204	J.J. Frazier	2014-17	576
7.	194	Dustin Ware	2009-12	536
8.	193	G.G. Smith	1996-99	500
9.	184	Bernard Davis	1991-94	453
10.	172	Jody Patton	1987-91	387
11.	172	Tyree Crump	2016-19	516
UGA Career 3FG Leaders
Rk.	No.	Player	Seasons	FT-FTAs
1.	261	Levi Stukes	2003-07	683
2.	231	D.A. Lane	1999-01	583
3.	215	Litterial Green	1989-92	544
4.	213	Ezra Williams	2001-03	582
	213	Kenny Gaines	2013-16	569
6.	204	J.J. Frazier	2014-17	576
7.	194	Dustin Ware	2009-12	536
8.	193	G.G. Smith	1996-99	500
9.	184	Bernard Davis	1991-94	453
10.	172	Jody Patton	1987-91	387
	172	Tyree Crump	2016-19	516

Edwards, Wheeler Included Among NCAA's Freshman Leaders

Through games of Feb. 27, Anthony Edwards and Sahvir Wheeler were among the nation's top freshmen statistical leaders for Division I in scoring and assists, respectively, as outlined below.

Edwards was the top scorer among all Division-I freshmen, the only one featured in the top-50 scoring leaders and one of only four included among the top-100.

Wheeler sported the seventh-best average assists average by a freshman.

UGA's Top-10 Freshman Scoring Averages
Rk.	Player, School	G	Avg
39.	Anthony Edwards, Georgia	28	19.5
90.	Vernon Carey, Duke	28	17.6
94.	Joe Pridgen, Holy Cross	28	17.5
89.	Jordyn Adams, Austin Peay	30	17.5

UGA's Top-10 Freshman Assists
Rk.	Player, School	G	Avg
39.	Yuri Collins, Saint Louis	28	5.4
42.	Nico Mannion, Arizona	28	5.3
61.	Tyger Campbell, UCLA	29	4.9
73.	Sean East, UMass	28	4.7
76.	Rylan Jones, Utah	27	4.6
89.	Isaiah Stevens, Colorado St.	30	4.5
94.	Sahvir Wheeler, Georgia	27	4.5
97.	Mark Freeman, Tennessee St.	28	4.4
98.	Ellis Magnuson, E. Wash.	28	4.4

Freshmen Come Up Big Against AU

The Bulldogs' celebrated freshman class – a consensus top-10 group according to every major scouting service – was vital in the Georgia's Feb. 19 upset of No. 13/12 Auburn.

Anthony Edwards scored 18 points, while Sahvir Wheeler and Toumani Camara added 13 and 12 points, respectively.

Camara's Contributions Climbing

Toumani Camara, who moved into the Bulldogs' starting lineup in the 10th game of the season against SMU, has seen a massive up-tick in his production over the last 22 outings.

During that span, Camara also posted career highs of 16 points vs. Georgia Southern, nine rebounds vs. Austin Peay and 34 minutes of playing time vs. SMU.

After notching one double-digit output in the Bulldogs' first 16 outings, he has done so six times in Georgia's last 12 contests.

The freshman more than doubled his playing time from the first six games and has also increased his scoring and rebounding by huge chunks as outlined below.

Camara's Increased Efforts
Stat	First 6	Last 16
Points per game	4.0	7.3
Rebounds per game	2.5	4.9
Minutes per game	13.2	26.8

Feel Free To Call Him "Ty-3"

Tyree Crump continued a familiar theme to his scoring this season, with 45 of his 62 field goals (72.6 percent) being 3-pointers.

More than two-thirds of Crump's made shots from the floor at Georgia have come from 3-point range. He has connected on 172 3s as a Bulldog, which accounts for 69.6 percent of his total 247 made field goals.

Hammonds' Big-Number Efforts Up

In his 61 games played as a freshman and sophomore, Rayshaun Hammonds had two 20-point performances, four double-figure rebounding outputs and two double-doubles.

In the first 23 games this season, Hammonds notched five 20-point outputs, six double-digit rebound counts and four double-doubles.

Hammonds' most impressive outing of the season came against arch-rival Georgia Tech on Nov. 20. He scored 26 points against the Jackets and was particularly hot from the get-go. Hammonds put up 19 first-half points while connecting on 8-of-11 shots from the floor, including 2-of-3 from 3-point range.

Edwards, Wheeler Earn Four SEC Freshman of the Week Honors

Anthony Edwards was selected as SEC Freshman of the Week for a school-record third time on Monday (Feb. 24), marking the fourth SEC FOTW honor in 16 weeks this season for the Bulldogs.

Edwards also was tabbed on Feb. 3 and Dec. 1, while Sahvir Wheeler was on Dec. 23.

Last week, Edwards averaged 18.5 points in wins over Auburn and at Vanderbilt.

Edwards won on Feb. 3 after averaging 26.0 points and 12.5 boards in outings against Missouri and Texas A&M. He became the first Bulldog freshman to post consecutive double-doubles since Jumaine Jones in 1997-98.

Edwards was first honored – and also was tabbed National Freshman of the Week by CBSsports.com – following the Maui Jim Maui Invitational. Most notably, he poured in 37 points against No. 3 Michigan State on Nov. 26, including 33 points in the second half. Edwards' effort represented the most points by a Bulldog freshman since Jacky Dorsey's 41 versus LSU on Jan. 20, 1975.

Wheeler was selected after he scored layups in the final five seconds of both the first and second overtime periods of UGA's versus SMU. He scored with four seconds remaining in the first OT to tie the score. In the second extra session, Wheeler's layup with 1.9 seconds left supplied Georgia with the victory.

Bulldogs Better In Tight Games

Georgia is 5-3 this season in games decided by four points or less.

That's a dramatic difference last season when UGA was 0-6 in such outings, with all six setbacks coming to NCAA tourney teams.

Georgia's non-conference effort in 2018-19 featured four- and two-point setbacks to Temple and Arizona State, respectively. The Bulldogs also dropped four consecutive extremely excruciating late-season losses by a combined nine points to LSU (83-79), Mississippi State (68-67), Ole Miss (72-71) and Auburn (78-75).

This season, Georgia defeated Georgia Tech (72-68), Chaminade (80-77), SMU (87-85) and No. 9 Memphis (65-62) before suffering setbacks against Missouri (72-69) and Alabama (105-102). Georgia earned its fifth victory in a tight game by besting Vanderbilt (80-78) on Tyree Crump's buzzer beater, but then immediately dropped a 94-90 overtime decision at South Carolina.

Wheeler Back & At His Best

Sahvir Wheeler returned to the court against Texas A&M on Feb. 1 after missing a Jan. 28 game at Missouri.

Wheeler, who leads Georgia in assists and is third in scoring, suffered an upper body injury in practice on Monday, Jan. 27, before the team departed for Columbia.

He played three of his best games of the season immediately after his return.

The Houston native had a strong linescore against the Aggies, with nine points, five assists, four boards and two steals.

Wheeler followed that with 16 points and four assists at Florida.

Against Alabama, he recorded career-high tallies of 24 points and eight assists (for the third time this season) in a career-most 42 minutes of playing time.

Brown Quick Off the Bench

Freshman Christian Brown made an immediate impact off the bench in Georgia's road games at Florida and Texas A&M.

At Florida on Feb. 5, Brown scored six points in five minutes, connecting on 2-of-3 3-point attempts.

At Texas A&M on Feb. 15, Brown contributed eight points in eight minutes, making 3-of-5 shots from the floor and converting on his two attempts at the line.

Lots Of Eyes Are On Edwards

Anthony Edwards was named to updated Watch Lists for the Wooden and Jerry West Awards released in early February.

On Monday, Feb. 3, Edwards was the only SEC player and one of just two freshmen (along with Duke's Vernon Carey Jr.) featured on the new top-20 list of candidates for the Wooden Award.

On Tuesday, Feb. 4, Edwards was one of two freshmen (along with Kentucky's Tyrese Maxey) and four SEC players on the top-10 list for the West Award, which is given to the nation's top shooting guard.

When He's Hot, He's Really Hot

Sophomore Tye Fagan scored 14 points at No. 15 Kentucky on Jan. 21 by connecting on all six of his shots from the field (including a 3-pointer) and one attempt at the line.

Fagan has now scored in double figures three times this season and has done so in an extremely efficient fashion. In that trio of contests, Fagan has connected on 81.0 percent (17-of-21) of his shots from the floor.

Fagan recorded his first double-digit scoring output with 11 points against Dayton in the Maui Jim Maui Invitational. He connected on 5-of-5 shots from the field, including his only 3-point attempt, against the Flyers.

The sophomore from Logtown paced Georgia with 15 points at Arizona State on Dec. 14. Fagan did most of his damage in the second half in Tempe with 11 points in 10 minutes.

Before that, Fagan's top offensive performances were early last season. He notched eight points in three of the first four games of his freshman year.

A Trio Of Freshman Starters

Freshmen Toumani Camara, Anthony Edwards and Sahvir Wheeler all started for the Bulldogs at No. 5 Auburn on Jan. 11.

That marked the first time Georgia started a trio of freshmen in a decade and 11 days.

To find the last contest when three first-year Bulldogs got the nod you have to venture back to a date with Kennesaw State on New Year's Eve in 2008 when Travis Leslie, Trey Thompkins and Dustin Ware all started.

Four members of the Bulldogs' top-10 recruiting class have started this season. Rodney Howard did so against N.C. Central and Arizona State.

Dogs Open SEC With Tough Stretch

For a second-straight season, Georgia endured a brutal stretch to open SEC play.

The Bulldogs began league action by facing six straight 2019 NCAA Tournament teams – Kentucky, Auburn, Tennessee, Mississippi State, Kentucky (again) and Ole Miss.

Tom Crean has undergone some serious hazing from the scheduling Gods since arriving in Athens. A year ago, Georgia opened SEC play with consecutive Saturday road trips to the defending league co-champions from the previous year – Tennessee and Auburn.

Significance of the Memphis Win

While most of the SEC opened league play on Saturday, Jan. 4, Georgia was earning a historic road win at No. 9 Memphis.

That was: 1) just the second road victory over a ranked non-conference foe in Georgia Basketball history; and 2) just the second road win over a ranked foe by any SEC team this season...South Carolina's upset of No. 9 Virginia on Dec. 22 being the other.

The victory also represented UGA's first:

• win over a top-10 foe since defeating No. 10 Kentucky, 77-70, on Jan. 8, 2011.
• road win over a top-10 opponent since beating No. 5 Kentucky, 65-57, at Rupp Arena on Jan. 17, 2004.
• road win over a ranked, non-conference foe since topping No. 7 Louisville, 73-70 in overtime, on Dec. 29, 1977.

Dogs' Freshmen Among UGA's Best

Georgia's freshman class features five of the top-100 prospects from 2019 and was consistently ranked among the nation's top recruiting groups – No. 5 by ESPN.com, No. 6 by rivals.com and No. 10 by 247Sports.com.

Headlining the quintet is Anthony Edwards. The Atlanta native, who tabbed the nation's best prospect by some, announced his commitment to his home-state school on national television on Feb. 11. He is the Bulldogs' highest rated recruit ever.

Dominique Wilkins was the most hyped recruit in Georgia history in 1979. Individual rankings for that class are believed to be unavailable, but it also featured future stars such as Ralph Sampson, Isiah Thomas, James Worthy, Clark Kellogg and Sam Bowie.

In the internet age, current L.A. Laker Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is the highest ranked player in the 247Sports.com composite to enroll at Georgia at No. 12 in 2011. Current L.A. Clipper Louis Williams signed with the Bulldogs as the No. 6 prospect in the 2005 composite but opted to enter the NBA Draft.

The Bulldogs' highest recruiting class ever was No. 2 in 1992 when UGA inked four top-100 prospects – Shandon Anderson, Terrell Bell, Pertha Robinson and McDonald's All-American Carlos Strong (who was rated as high as No. 4 nationally) – in the fall and added then added Cleveland Jackson, the National Junior College Player of the Year, in the spring.

Additional top classes at Georgia include those in 1979 and 1980 which featured four McDonald's All-Americans between them – Wilkins and Terry Fair in 1979 and Vern Fleming and James Banks a year later.

UGA's Freshman Class Also Among The Nation's Largest

The Bulldogs' class of nine freshmen – seven scholarship and two walk-ons – ranks as the third-largest in D-I hoops.

Navy, TCU and Utah sport a nation-leading 11 freshmen on their rosters. Air Force has 10 freshmen. In addition to Georgia, Louisville also has nine freshmen.

On this list, "freshman" is defined as a player who is a freshman eligibility wise and competing at that school for the first time this season...so there are some redshirts.

Edwards, Wheeler Star In Debut

Anthony Edwards and Sahvir Wheeler poured in 24 and 19 points, respectively, in the season opener against Western Carolina on Nov. 5 – the second- and third-most points ever by a freshman in their Bulldog debut.

Since NCAA rules changed to allow freshmen to compete in basketball in 1972, 23 Bulldogs have scored in double figures during their first collegiate contest.

Edwards came within a bucket of Dominique Wilkins' school record against Troy on Nov. 30, 1979 as outlined below.

Top Tally Debuts By UGA Freshmen
Year	Player	Points
1979	Dominique Wilkins	26
2019	Anthony Edwards	24
1979	Terry Fair	19
2019	Sahvir Wheeler	19
1998	D.A. Layne	18
2007	Jeremy Price	18
2004	Sundiata Gaines	17
2017	Rayshaun Hammonds	17
2011	Kentavious Caldwell-Pope	15

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Christian Brown

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Tyree Crump

Anthony Edwards

Tye Fagan

Rayshaun Hammonds

Jordan Harris

Rodney Howard

Sahvir Wheeler

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