Blue Cain finally verified that he’ll back for another season. It’ll be his fourth season in Athens. You might want to check to see if there’s Unicorns grazing in your back yard, because it seems you just don’t see this anymore in the modern era of college basketball.
For the first time in a long, long time, we finally have a Georgia hoops player that can be termed as a “DGD”.
Well played, Mr. Cain. Well played.
This will be the second Georgia legacy to leave the program in two years.
Wilkins had some highlight reel dunks the past season, and I can’t fault the kid for wanting more playing time…but with Wilkinson and a host of other guys hitting the portal, wouldn’t he have stood to have more playing time next year, anyway? If you can’t get your most famous basketball alumni to keep their son committed to their alma mater, then we’ve either hit the lunatic fringe of the Portal Era, or there’s some serious internal issues we’re unaware of.
Make it make sense.
Dang, Josh. It was almost like you already had been in contact with someone or something.
Fire on Saturdayish, hire on Sundayish. Who knows, but somehow, Jimmy Sexton was probably involved.
Director’s Cup is in Josh’s sights…it just doesn’t seem to involve the Men’s Basketball Program, amirite?
Make it make sense…
Four years, lost in the first round of the NCAA and started losing players to the portal, fired. Sound somehow familar?
Explain it to me like I’m five years old, please.
Imagine a basketball team with a Wilkins, a Hayes, and a Catchings, all on the same squad. It’s now possible.
Could we see NBA legacy in Stegeman? That’s a lot of parental talent pouring in to one roster, to be sure. And if we can’t do it with NIL, let’s just hire all their fathers and play them.
I mean, it worked pretty well with Claxton’s kid, so why not, amirite? Does Travis Leslie have any sons?
Wanna bet if he ends up at Arkansas?
He lead the league in blocks and dunks. Also lead the league in technical fouls and PTSD related reactions. So long, Cyril, we hardly knew ye. In other news:
Mikey likes it! Go ahead Mikey, eat it….he eats everything! Or maybe it’s Mikey hates everything, I don’t know/
Gag. Another victim of the never ending transfer portal that plagues college basketball.
Can’t say I’m shocked, but here goes the yearly merry go round that is college basketball roster management. Wilkinson played well early, faded a little in the middle of the SEC schedule, but was the leading scorer on the team for many of our games.
With our bottom of the league NIL spending in basketball, I foresee this to be a repetitive experience for many years to come, unless we see a significant shift in prioritizing funding after the team’s back to back early departure from the NCAA Tournament.
Interesting infographic about the final 16 teams left in the NCAA Tourney. The fun part is taking a guess as to which team is composed of which.
Obviously, you can tell who some of the teams are, and it’s not surprising that a basketball purist like Tom Izzo would have the one roster of players that had all started at Michigan State and remained. Most of the top is pretty easy to identify, but the bottom, yeesh, take your pick.
Also, I didn’t realize that Mark Fox had become an assistant at Kentucky until someone made a comment about him during Kentucky’s farewell interviews after they lost.
For more perspective:
And as a chaser:
I guess the money moves the numbers, maybe.
Anyway, outside of Cain and Somto, most of Georgia’s group was unrecognizable this season and the season before that, and I’d imagine it’ll look much the same next season, too.
Who will still be there? Your guess is as good as mine.
This was hard to swallow.
Two consecutive years, two exact same results for both the football and men’s basketball programs. Lost twice to teams in the Sugar Bowl for football, and twice in the first round of the NCAA Tourney.
Two programs, two different issues, if you ask me. For our football team, I still question the wisdom of having a “bye” in the longest tournament on earth, and the freshness of the team coming off a long layoff. THe only body of work to compare it to for football would be the first round of the CFP in 2017, 2021, and 2022.
In three opportunities, Georgia found itself in a barnburner of a game that we were fortunate to win. In the 2018 Rose Bowl, an opportune kick by Blankenship before halftime and a fortunate field goal block allowed Georgia to get the W. Against Ohio State in the 2023 Peach, it took a missed kick to win in another barnburner. Georgia’s other openind round win was a comfortable whipping of Michigan in 2022, but we all know how Michigan would do if they didn’t have an abundance of tape and knowledge of play calls to win a game, so there’s that.
The Sugar Bowls that followed were equally frustrating in 2024 and 2025. I could give us a pass in 2024 due to injuries and breaking in a new quarterback in the biggest game of his young life. 2025, though, seemed to be a bit of a mystery with offensive production where it seemed every play ended with Gunner on his back or being folded like a lawn chair by yet another guy from Ole Miss’s defense. I saw these less as going up against unexpectedly better competition and more about a team having ample time to prepare for us and know our tendencies. Is it predictability (let’s face it, Notre Dame and Ole Miss both knew they were playing in the second round and would hardly have to lift a finger to beat their first round game) or is it cobwebs and rust from the bye?
For basketball, it’s been a Dr. Jekyl and Dr. Jekyl kind of endeavor, both times coming out flat and getting pistol whipped in both contests. Not even competitive. I’m not sure that anyone needed to prepare for a team that came out and treated the NCAA tournament with the same seriousness my friends had when we’d visit the SPACenter (now Ramsey Center) to play a pickup game of three on three. I don’t think that’s preparation of scheme, that’s somehow on the coach. Or does it lie somewhere else?
Football, even with the flaws of NIL and Portal, seems to have consistency in focus on messaging whereas basketball feels more like “who’s on our team this year…Blue Cain is just a junior? Feels like he’s been here seven years”. Is that White, or is that the nature of the game? How much does chemistry and consistency play a roll in postseason success in college basketball and is Mike White built for it?
Discuss.
The bracket has come out, and Georgia will be dancing as an 8 seed against the St. Louis Billikens in Buffalo.
Also, in other news, the Lady Dawgs are also dancing again.
The men’s team is making back-to-back appearances while the Lady Dawgs are making their first appearance since 2023. Also, another fun fact:
Let’s just try to break the trend of losing in the first round, shall we? That part is getting old.
Oh, and it’s worth noting…the Barner Basketball School didn’t make the tournament.
As always, Auburn sucks.