I really like this Hoop Dawg team…tight game on the road, needing every win we can get with our weak OOC schedule. If Cyril can stay out of foul trouble, we’ll have a shot. Millender with the big drive against the Mizzou big with 5 seconds left and fouled him out. Fun game. Second best start to a season in Hoop Dawg history to boot, at 16-3.
Woof!
Geez.
Can’t say we didn’t deserve it. Poor defense coupled with Somto racking up four fouls in what felt like four minutes in the 2nd didn’t help.
The refs didn’t help much either.
Then again, they never do, do they?
Rough week last week in Georgia basketball, losing to a rival and all, especially Florida. The Hoops Dawgs bounced back with a gritty win in Columbia behind Somto Cyril (we really, really need Somto), but we’re still hanging around the Top 25.
In case you’re still not watching, Kanon Catchings is also fun to watch.
Up next: Ole Miss in Athens this Wednesday. Maybe the hoopsters can get some revenge for the football team, huh?
Fun fact, Somto, in Nigerian, means “God is good” and Cyril translates to “Lord”.
After watching the replay, that was my thought as well…”Lord”. I might have said something with God in it, as well, but that’s another thing altogether.
Sadly, Somto was needed because Stagg looked more like a high school freshman than a college freshman, and Jeremiah Wilkinson was still clearly not 100% and finished (I think) with just 2 points after coming in to the game as the team’s leading scorer.
Hoop Dogs lost, but seems more self-inflicted and injury related than the usual (hopefully, anyway) conference play collapse that we’re accustomed to seeing Georgia Basketball take each season.
Fingers crossed, anyway.
What a way to start the conference slate of games for the Hoop Dawgs.
I did not watch…but from what I heard, it was quite the game.
Go Dawgs!
The hype train, the bandwagon, whatever you’d like to call it. Georgia Basketball is expensive again.
Funny, I remember paying five bucks for the seats going for 80 dollars not so long ago.
A little late posting this, but better late than never:
Our Hoop Dawgs are up to 23rd in the AP poll now. One more warm up against Long Island after Christmas, and Dawgs open up SEC play against Auburn on January 3rd. Should be an instant test to see if this is just an early season optimism or if this team is legit.
Click your heels together and repeat after me: “there’s no basketball in Athens…there’s no basketball in Athens…”
10-1 and ranked in the Top 25. And in case you haven’t tuned in, we’ve got a legit big in the paint this season, something we haven’t had in a long long time. Who was the last one? Charles Claxton?
Go Dawgs!
I was at Stegeman in 1997 when this last happened, and I have to say, I’ll be buying a ticket.
We lost, 82-80, in case you can’t even watch the replay from 30 something years ago. Ron Jirsa, we hardly knew thee.
Good on G.G. Smith, hanging around after Tubby left. You just don’t see that anymore.
Some things never get old, like beating the hell out of the Seminoles.
No bark, all bite, as the poster says.
Let’s see how it translates over to league play.