A pair of applications higher recognized for his or her play on the gridiron will face off on the courtroom on Tuesday when the Georgia Bulldogs host the Notre Dame Combating Irish within the second version of the SEC/ACC Problem in Athens.
Georgia (7-1) can match its greatest begin to a season for the reason that 2006-07 marketing campaign, when it gained eight of 9 video games to start the 12 months.
The Bulldogs are coming off a 102-56 stomping of visiting Jacksonville on Saturday. It was their highest level whole since scoring 102 in an extra time loss to visiting Alabama on Feb. 8, 2020.
Towards Jacksonville, the Bulldogs shot 66.7 p.c from the sphere, together with 14-for-24 (58.3 p.c) on 3-pointers, en path to their second 46-plus-point win this season. Dakota Leffew got here off the bench to guide six double-figure scorers with 16 factors.
“The assist-to-turnover ratio, the way in which the ball moved, the additional passes, the shot choice and the unselfishness offensively was at an all-time excessive,” Georgia head coach Mike White stated.
After successful at Florida State in final 12 months’s inaugural ACC/SEC Problem, White hopes to see a powerful crowd displaying in Athens on Tuesday.
“We might be appreciative of a fantastic turnout to offer us an opportunity to play properly towards a high-level program,” White stated. “(Notre Dame) may be very, superb, extraordinarily properly coached. They’re only a stable group and program. For us it is all about how we put together for them.”
5-star freshman Asa Newell leads Georgia in factors (15.4 per sport) and rebounds (6.0). Silas Demary Jr. chips in 14 factors and Leffew provides 13 per sport.
Notre Dame (4-4) is desperately hoping to flip the trajectory of a present four-game skid.
Including insult to harm, preseason All-ACC decide Markus Burton injured his proper knee in Notre Dame’s 85-84 extra time loss to Rutgers on Nov. 26 within the Gamers Period Pageant event in Las Vegas. Burton will miss a number of weeks.
“We’re short-handed proper now, however it’s not like that is altering,” Combating Irish coach Micah Shrewsberry stated. “We have to proceed to have perception, we have to proceed to seek out other ways to win. Whether or not that is a high-scoring affair, or knockdown, drag-out sport, I feel we are able to type of do each. We simply have to seek out other ways to have success.”
In Notre Dame’s newest loss, an 80-76 defeat to Creighton on Saturday within the seventh-place sport in Las Vegas, Braeden Shrewsberry and Tae Davis every scored 17 factors.
Behind Burton’s team-leading 18.2 factors per sport, Shrewsberry averages 15.4 per sport and Davis 14.5.
–Area Degree Media