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Woolfolk Put On A Show
February 20, 2026 | Women's Basketball, The Frierson Files
By John Frierson
Staff Writer
From the baseline, from the free-throw line, from seemingly everywhere within 16 feet of the basket, Mia Woolfolk found a way to score Thursday night. For the second game in a row, the powerful, 6-foot-3 Georgia women's basketball sophomore was close to unstoppable.
Woolfolk was excellent in the Lady Bulldogs' upset of No. 5 Vanderbilt last Sunday, going 8-for-10 from the floor and scoring 19 points, one shy of her career high, set earlier this season at Florida State. She scored 11 of Georgia's 20 points in the quarter to help the Lady Bulldogs pull out a 76-74 win over the Commodores.
Against the Sooners, the forward was even better: a career-high 29 points on 9-for-12 shooting from the field, 11-for-14 shooting from the free-throw line, plus nine rebounds and a block, with no turnovers in 31 minutes on the court. It was the best game of her career, but it wasn't enough to lift the No. 24-ranked Lady Bulldogs past No. 11 Oklahoma, who held on for a 71-67 win in Stegeman Coliseum.
"It doesn't matter what I scored tonight, a loss is a loss, so now we just have to go get this game on Monday," she said, referring to the Lady Bulldogs' game at Auburn.
It may have come in a loss, but Woolfolk's performance was special and worth celebrating. In her two seasons at Georgia, she's always been a force in the paint, but she's adding to her game. She averaged 11.0 points per game on 51.4% shooting last season, and made the SEC All-Freshman Team, and this season she's second on the team with 13.2 points per game — she's averaged 15.0 over her last 10 games — and is hitting 59.8% of her shots, fourth-best in the SEC.
"I don't think this game is anything new for Mia. ... She always can get buckets like that (inside), you know, and I think what's been great, though, is her high-post shot," Georgia head coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson said. "She's really been working on it. Her being able to hit those shots, now she's hard to guard because you've got to guard her on the block or she could step out (and shoot from 12-15 feet), and she could pick and pop, and she can make those shots."
In the first quarter, after the Sooners raced out to a 16-4 lead, Woolfolk hit a pair of free throws and then a jumper, helping the Lady Bulldogs cut the margin to 22-13 after 10 minutes of action. In the second quarter, Woolfolk dominated, scoring Georgia's first eight points of the period. Six of those points came on jumpers and the last two on free throws. She added two more free throws at the end of the half to give her 10 of the Lady Bulldogs' 14 points in the quarter.
Oklahoma led 37-27 at the half, and Woolfolk picked up where she left off in the third quarter. She scored the first points of the second half on a jumper, which was followed by a 3-pointer from Savannah Henderson and a layup by Dani Carnegie. A Woolfolk jumper from the elbow cut the Sooner lead to 39-36, and by the start of the fourth quarter, she had 18 points in the game and the Lady Bulldogs were hanging close, down 50-44.
Just past midway through the fourth, Woolfolk hit another jumper and made two free throws, cutting Oklahoma's lead to 60-58. She followed that with a baseline jumper off the glass, followed by a rattled-in jumper from the right side that made it 64-62 with 1:53 to play.
Woolfolk did all that against a tough, physical Sooner defense that didn't let anything come easily. With Carnegie, Georgia's leading scorer all season, having an off shooting night, going 5-for-17, Woolfolk was getting a lot of attention from Oklahoma.
"Our game plan was great, to go to her," Coach ABE said. "Trinity (Turner) did a great job of getting her the ball. Savannah did a great job of getting her the ball. I mean, (Oklahoma) had multiple people on her, so she did a great job. She went at Reagan Beers, who's a really good player, and then they brought their other post players in the game, and I'm actually shocked they didn't double her, but she got hit. She was getting hit and hit and hit and hit.
"I always say she's like Shaq because she's so physical and strong, they don't call everything. She was getting clobbered in there and finishing through the contact."
Woolfolk is one of those players who winds up on the floor a lot, and she's battled through several injuries this season. She kept getting up Thursday and kept delivering again and again.
"It always feels good to be healthy. After taking a big fall like that against LSU (on Jan. 8), I'm just happy to be on the floor, in general, no matter how I'm doing," Woolfolk said. "Talking about how I'm playing, I just do anything I can for my team at the end of the day."
"I think Mia's tough every game," Coach ABE said.
She proved that again Thursday.
Staff Writer
From the baseline, from the free-throw line, from seemingly everywhere within 16 feet of the basket, Mia Woolfolk found a way to score Thursday night. For the second game in a row, the powerful, 6-foot-3 Georgia women's basketball sophomore was close to unstoppable.
Woolfolk was excellent in the Lady Bulldogs' upset of No. 5 Vanderbilt last Sunday, going 8-for-10 from the floor and scoring 19 points, one shy of her career high, set earlier this season at Florida State. She scored 11 of Georgia's 20 points in the quarter to help the Lady Bulldogs pull out a 76-74 win over the Commodores.
Against the Sooners, the forward was even better: a career-high 29 points on 9-for-12 shooting from the field, 11-for-14 shooting from the free-throw line, plus nine rebounds and a block, with no turnovers in 31 minutes on the court. It was the best game of her career, but it wasn't enough to lift the No. 24-ranked Lady Bulldogs past No. 11 Oklahoma, who held on for a 71-67 win in Stegeman Coliseum.
"It doesn't matter what I scored tonight, a loss is a loss, so now we just have to go get this game on Monday," she said, referring to the Lady Bulldogs' game at Auburn.
It may have come in a loss, but Woolfolk's performance was special and worth celebrating. In her two seasons at Georgia, she's always been a force in the paint, but she's adding to her game. She averaged 11.0 points per game on 51.4% shooting last season, and made the SEC All-Freshman Team, and this season she's second on the team with 13.2 points per game — she's averaged 15.0 over her last 10 games — and is hitting 59.8% of her shots, fourth-best in the SEC.
"I don't think this game is anything new for Mia. ... She always can get buckets like that (inside), you know, and I think what's been great, though, is her high-post shot," Georgia head coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson said. "She's really been working on it. Her being able to hit those shots, now she's hard to guard because you've got to guard her on the block or she could step out (and shoot from 12-15 feet), and she could pick and pop, and she can make those shots."
In the first quarter, after the Sooners raced out to a 16-4 lead, Woolfolk hit a pair of free throws and then a jumper, helping the Lady Bulldogs cut the margin to 22-13 after 10 minutes of action. In the second quarter, Woolfolk dominated, scoring Georgia's first eight points of the period. Six of those points came on jumpers and the last two on free throws. She added two more free throws at the end of the half to give her 10 of the Lady Bulldogs' 14 points in the quarter.
Oklahoma led 37-27 at the half, and Woolfolk picked up where she left off in the third quarter. She scored the first points of the second half on a jumper, which was followed by a 3-pointer from Savannah Henderson and a layup by Dani Carnegie. A Woolfolk jumper from the elbow cut the Sooner lead to 39-36, and by the start of the fourth quarter, she had 18 points in the game and the Lady Bulldogs were hanging close, down 50-44.
Just past midway through the fourth, Woolfolk hit another jumper and made two free throws, cutting Oklahoma's lead to 60-58. She followed that with a baseline jumper off the glass, followed by a rattled-in jumper from the right side that made it 64-62 with 1:53 to play.
Woolfolk did all that against a tough, physical Sooner defense that didn't let anything come easily. With Carnegie, Georgia's leading scorer all season, having an off shooting night, going 5-for-17, Woolfolk was getting a lot of attention from Oklahoma.
"Our game plan was great, to go to her," Coach ABE said. "Trinity (Turner) did a great job of getting her the ball. Savannah did a great job of getting her the ball. I mean, (Oklahoma) had multiple people on her, so she did a great job. She went at Reagan Beers, who's a really good player, and then they brought their other post players in the game, and I'm actually shocked they didn't double her, but she got hit. She was getting hit and hit and hit and hit.
"I always say she's like Shaq because she's so physical and strong, they don't call everything. She was getting clobbered in there and finishing through the contact."
Woolfolk is one of those players who winds up on the floor a lot, and she's battled through several injuries this season. She kept getting up Thursday and kept delivering again and again.
"It always feels good to be healthy. After taking a big fall like that against LSU (on Jan. 8), I'm just happy to be on the floor, in general, no matter how I'm doing," Woolfolk said. "Talking about how I'm playing, I just do anything I can for my team at the end of the day."
"I think Mia's tough every game," Coach ABE said.
She proved that again Thursday.
Assistant Sports Communications Director John Frierson is the staff writer for the UGA Athletic Association and curator of the ITA Men's Tennis Hall of Fame. You can find his work at: Frierson Files.
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