The Georgia Bulldogs will have to reinvent their season in order to make the NCAA Tournament. Georgia finished the SEC regular season as the 13th best team in the conference (or 2nd worst if you’re more of a glass half-empty guy).
The first two seasons of the Tom Crean era have been rough in Athens. The University of Georgia has the second worst record in the SEC over that time frame. Only Vanderbilt has lost more than the Dawgs.
Even with Anthony Edwards, a likely top pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, Georgia couldn’t hold on to leads or have a winning record. UGA is currently 15-16 overall and 5-13 in SEC basketball play.
Georgia will have to beat Ole Miss on Wednesday, then play Florida Thursday. A win against Florida, who UGA went 0-2 against, will give the Dawgs a date with Mississippi State.
Defeating the Bulldogs would allow Georgia to play the winner of Kentucky versus Alabama/Tennessee in the semifinal. Finally, then Georgia would play in the SEC final game on Sunday for their fifth game in five days.
Here’s the SEC Tournament bracket:
‼️ANNOUNCEMENT‼️ The #SECMBB seeds are SET.
Your 2020 #SECTourney Bracket
See you March 11th. pic.twitter.com/qZGt6TSTlK
— Southeastern Conference (@SEC) March 8, 2020
Who do you have? My pick is Kentucky over Auburn in the final.
To win the SEC, Georgia would have to win five games, which is one less than what it takes to win the NCAA Tournament (as long as the team doesn’t play in the first four). It’s not all bad news for Tom Crean and UGA.The Bulldogs have another solid recruiting class coming in.
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