Georgia Basketball: SEC releases conference slate for 2022-23
Georgia Basketball’s full schedule for the 2022-23 season, the first under new head coach Mike White, is out as the SEC released the conference slate on Wednesday. The Bulldogs already knew their non-conference schedule, one that opens up November 7th against Western Carolina and includes eight games at Stegeman Coliseum, but now they have a full picture of what the schedule looks like.
SEC Schedule
Wednesday, January 4 – Auburn
Saturday, January 7 – @ Florida
Wednesday, January 11 – Mississippi State
Saturday, January 14 – @ Ole Miss
Tuesday, January 17 – @ Kentucky
Saturday, January 21 – Vanderbilt
Wednesday, January 25 – @ Tennessee
Saturday, January 28 – South Carolina
Wednesday, February 1 – @ Auburn
Saturday, February 4 – @ Texas A&M
Tuesday, February 7 – Ole Miss
Saturday, February 11 – Kentucky
Tuesday, February 14 – LSU
Saturday, February 18 – @ Alabama
Tuesday, February 21 – @ Arkansas
Saturday, February 25 – Missouri
Tuesday, February 28 – Florida
Saturday, March 4 – @ South Carolina
Georgia Non-Conference Schedule
Georgia previously announced its non-conference schedule for the 2022-23, scheduled to take on 13 opponents from outside the SEC. The Mike White era gets underway officially when Georgia hosts Western Carolina on November 7th, but fans will have their first chance to see the team in action on October 31st in an exhibition against Georgia College.
Three of the first four games for Georgia are at home and eight of the 13 in total including dates against Miami (Ohio) on November 14th, Bucknell on November 18th, East Tennessee State on November 27th, Hampton on November 30th, Florida A&M to open December on the 2nd, as well as Chattanooga and Rider on the 21st and 30th respectively to close out the non-conference slate.
Georgia travels to Winston Salem, N.C. to take on Wake Forest in the second game of the year on top of a true road game at Georgia Tech on December 6th. Neutral site matchups include the Sunshine Slam tournament in Daytona Beach, Fla. on November 21st and 22nd where the Bulldogs play St. Josephs and then the same-result team from USF/UAB as well as a game in Atlanta at State Farm Arena against Notre Dame on December 18th.
White will be working with a largely new cast of characters this season, even to Georgia fans. The Bulldogs brought in six players from the transfer portal plus one from high school. Mardrez McBride (North Texas), Frank Anselem (Syracus), Justin Hill (Longwood), Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe (Oklahoma State) and Jusaun Holt (Alabama) all played for teams that appeared in the NCAA Tournament either in 2021 or 2022 while Terry Roberts (Bradley) helped Florida SouthWestern to a No. 1 junior college ranking during the 2020 season.
While there are several new faces, the Bulldogs do bring back super-seniors Braelen Bridges and Jailyn Ingram as well as senior Jaxon Etter and juniors Jabri Abdur-Rahim and Kario Oquendo. With Oquendo, Bridges and Ingram all back in the mix, Georgia returns its top three in points and rebounds per game while Bridges also finished top three in total assists.
During his time at Florida, White led the Gators to four consecutive NCAA Tournaments from 2017 to 2021. The Gators also made the postseason in the other two seasons. Dating back to his time at Louisiana Tech, White’s teams have made nine straight appearances in the postseason.
