Georgia basketball jumps back into AP Poll top 25 after hot start
Georgia basketball continues to turn heads early in the season. The latest Associated Press Poll has placed the Bulldogs inside the top 25 for the first time this season.
The start to year three under head coach Mike White has been another strong one. The Bulldogs have run off to a 9-1 start to the season.
The Bulldogs checked in at number 25 in the latest AP Poll. Georgia is the sixth SEC team to slide into the latest poll.
Georgia was last on the floor on Saturday in Atlanta as they bested Cincinnati 84-65 in State Farm Arena. The Bulldogs had an 11-day layoff between their win over Florida State and Saturday’s win in Atlanta.
The break was a positive thing for White and his staff.
“Our guys needed it physically and academically to give our guys a chance to really focus on finishing strong academically,” White told reporters last Wednesday. “We tried to have some high-intensity practices, tried to simulate a game-like practice a couple of days ago, we took a day off yesterday, and three-day prep starting today to prepare for a really good team.”
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Georgia has continued an offensive tear through its early competition. In the last three games, Georgia has scored a combined 314 points.
White feels the team’s shot selection has helped turn the Bulldogs’ new style of play into an offense juggernaut.
“We’re better offensively right now,” White said. “We’ve made a big jump here in the last two, three weeks. We’re just making some shots; our three-point numbers are still what they are. And I think that they’ll continue to increase with shot selection, the guys settling in. We’re playing with more maturity, and that starts individually. We’ve just got three or four guys just making better decisions, taking better shots. So we hope that continues, and we can’t just rest on that and assume it’ll continue, so we’re working on those things later.”
