Coach Tovarich 2.0 CH2K8 Career Legacy

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Maui Invitational Championship
Lahaina Civic Center
Lahaina, HI

North Texas Mean Green at Georgia Bulldogs
Nov 21, 2018	1ST	2ND	SCORE
North Texas (4-2)	39	39	78
#2 Georgia (6-0)	42	46	88

North Texas Mean Green
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Hunt	19	1-8	0-6	0-0	0	10	0	0	4	2
Holmes	19	5-11	2-6	0-0	5	1	0	0	2	12
Halcomb	23	7-15	3-6	1-2	7	2	0	0	1	18
Briggs	22	5-8	1-1	1-2	10	0	0	1	1	12
Fellows	16	3-6	1-2	0-1	8	1	1	0	1	7
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Bridgewater	16	5-8	4-5	0-1	2	5	0	0	1	14
Riddle	9	3-5	0-2	0-0	0	3	0	0	1	6
Gansey	6	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	2
McKrieth	10	2-2	0-0	1-22	5	1	0	0	0	5
Lalugba	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Erwin	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Weatherspoon	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		32-64	11-28	3-8	38	23	1	1	11	78
TEAM TOTALS		32-64	11-28	3-8	38	23	1	1	11	78

Georgia Bulldogs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Sanderson, I	18	2-4	1-2	5-7	1	4	3	0	0	10
Horton	18	1-4	1-4	0-0	2	1	1	0	0	3
Sanderson, T	18	3-10	2-9	0-0	2	1	3	0	0	8
Kovacevic	20	2-5	0-0	4-6	9	3	0	1	0	8
Moody	18	13-18	0-0	7-8	4	2	1	1	0	33
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Parsons	10	1-4	0-2	0-0	1	0	1	0	1	2
Root	10	2-6	2-5	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	6
Fontenet	8	1-3	0-0	2-2	4	0	0	0	0	4
Deren	10	6-7	0-0	0-0	4	0	0	1	0	12
Hart	10	1-3	0-2	0-0	1	5	2	0	0	2
TEAM TOTALS		32-64	6-24	18-23	30	16	11	3	1	88

Tovarich: Good win, I guess. Luckily we built a 16-point lead of whatever. They caught fire there at the end, think they made 8 shots in a row, 5 of which were 3's. We hit our FT's and finished it out.

Reporter: Rebounding?

Tovarich: A concern, always. Should be able to outrebound North Texas, who's probably the second worst team we'll play this season. Hardly surprising though.

Reporter: Are you and/or the players bored?

Tovarich: We go through the motions a lot. We lollygagged our way through this one. Eventually we've got some elite opponents and SEC play but I think it's been too easy, easier than it should be. It's been easy to exploit the opponents' weak roster composition and strategy.

[Tovarich]

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Reed Arena
College Station, TX

Georgia Bulldogs at Texas A&M Aggies
Nov 26, 2018	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#2 Georgia (7-0)	35	33	68
Texas A&M (2-3)	30	19	49

Georgia Bulldogs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Sanderson, I	21	1-3	0-1	0-1	5	5	4	0	2	2
Horton	21	6-9	4-6	0-0	2	2	1	0	1	16
Sanderson, T	21	5-9	5-8	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	15
Kovacevic	21	4-4	0-0	0-0	4	2	1	1	0	8
Moody	21	6-11	0-0	5-6	6	4	1	1	0	17
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Parsons	7	0-4	0-3	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	0
Root	7	0-5	0-3	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Fontenet	7	0-0	0-0	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	0
Deren	7	5-7	0-0	0-0	4	0	0	1	1	10
Hart	7	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TEAM TOTALS		27-54	9-21	5-7	28	14	9	3	4	68

Texas A&M Aggies
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Annen	23	7-13	3-6	2-2	1	2	0	0	2	19
Domercant	22	6-13	3-6	0-0	1	0	0	0	3	15
Spencer	24	2-11	0-4	2-3	4	4	1	0	2	6
Lane	22	2-7	0-0	0-0	11	0	0	0	1	4
Brown	18	1-4	0-1	0-0	7	1	1	0	0	2
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Starks	11	0-2	0-1	0-0	1	3	1	1	1	0
Marsh	9	1-2	1-2	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	3
Hoyer	12	0-3	0-1	0-0	4	0	0	0	0	0
Wolfe	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Dumbliauskas	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Fontenet	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Hardaway	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		19-55	7-21	4-5	31	10	3	1	9	49

Tovarich: We weren't quite as on fire as we were against them last week, but they played about as inept on offense. Just the two guys could score, and they could only score when they were in the PG slot, otherwise they struggled. 35 of their 49 must have come by whoever was playing PG at the moment. Extraordinary. I thought they had a bad game last week. They might just be bad.

Reporter: Who's going to challenge you this season?

Tovarich: I'm sure Georgia Tech will still be a great game, even if they did just lose @ Indiana. Anyone with a competent C on their roster might. Other than us, only UNLV in the top 8 has a C and they have a FR. I remain baffled at everyone's unwillingness to go recruit that position. The world isn't all about guards. It's not the worst strategy to go guard heavy and try to beat us by shooting 65% on jumpers, but even though we allow that more than your average team, it's still a low success rate.

Reporter: Is going undefeated possible?

Tovarich: There's always a crazy game where we play terrible and the other team goes berserks. It usually takes both in combination and we usually still stick around somehow, but it seems highly unlikely. Eventually the pressure of that gets to you. I'd rather not deal with it.

[Tovarich]

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United Spirit Arena
Lubbock, TX

Georgia Bulldogs at Texas Tech Red Raiders
Nov 28, 2018	1ST	2ND	OT	SCORE
#2 Georgia (8-0)	41	42	13	96
Texas Tech (4-2)	31	52	7	90

Georgia Bulldogs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Sanderson, I	27	0-4	0-2	2-4	0	1	3	0	5	2
Horton	27	2-13	1-7	0-0	2	2	3	0	1	5
Sanderson, T	27	3-14	1-10	3-3	2	1	4	0	0	10
Kovacevic	26	9-13	0-0	7-7	9	4	5	0	0	25
Moody	26	12-15	0-0	10-10	12	2	1	0	4	34
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Parsons	6	1-2	1-2	1-2	2	0	0	0	0	4
Root	6	0-2	0-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Fontenet	7	1-1	1-1	0-0	1	3	0	0	1	3
Deren	7	3-3	0-0	0-0	5	1	1	1	0	6
Hart	6	3-4	1-2	0-0	0	1	0	0	2	7
TEAM TOTALS		34-71	5-26	23-26	34	15	17	1	13	96

Texas Tech Red Raiders
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
McKenzie	27	8-13	2-5	1-1	0	5	1	0	4	19
Nwoke	26	6-12	1-7	0-0	1	6	4	0	2	13
Worthy	27	8-15	3-8	0-0	5	0	1	2	6	19
O'Bannon	27	4-7	1-1	1-2	6	4	2	2	1	10
Calvert	23	2-4	0-0	0-0	6	2	0	3	3	4
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Pompey	10	2-3	0-0	1-2	3	2	2	0	0	5
Mason	9	3-4	2-3	1-2	0	3	2	0	0	9
Dye	6	2-3	0-1	0-0	1	2	0	0	1	4
Battles	5	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	2	0	0	1	0
Law	4	3-3	1-1	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	7
Roberson	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Halcomb	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		38-66	10-26	4-7	23	27	12	7	18	90

Tovarich: That's another that's high on the list of unlikely wins. The insane shooting we overcame in the second half was incredible. I knew right away, the first shot being missed is usually a bad omen. It seemed like an extra bad omen when it double bounced around off the rim and both my big guys then missed the rebound, only for some puny little guard of theirs to wander in and grab it for an easy putback. Then they made 11 in a row. I think at one point they were 16/19 before kindly cooling off to ONLY shoot 21/29 in the second half and 6/9 on 3's. Down 6 with 2 minutes to go felt unlikely to be overcome, and we managed somehow. Kovacevic got a nice steal, still not sure where he came from or what he was even doing under our basket on their inbound pass but he grabbed it and laid it in to tie it with 36 seconds to go and we inexplicably blocked their go-ahead shot. We couldn't score with the few seconds we had left, but we got it to OT. They started 2/2, which just made me roll my eyes, but then they went cold finally. That gave us the chance to get ahead by 2, then we did a good job making all the FT's at the end to close it out.

Reporter: If your team can come back and survive that kind of shooting, are you sure anyone can beat you?

Tovarich: Of course they can. This is why we play these games. Notre Dame shot like this against us in the second half too. We survived that with FT's, we survived this with a big FT disparity. That isn't always going to work out. Somewhere the refs won't give us a 20-0 FT advantage like we had in Maui or 26-7 like we had today. We dominated the boards today too, which is extraordinary considering how few misses we forced in the second half. We should rightly have been killed in that statistic. We shot 3's like garbage today. The big guys dominated. If they had even just an above average night scoring, we'd have lost. It was an unlikely win. We're really good at figuring something out. Someone will usually come through. We'll focus on what's working and take advantage, but it won't always work out for us. We're way above what you can reasonably expect there at my time at Georgia. Someone'll get us. But overcoming performances like that, like what got us in the NCAA tournament last year, is why we play all these road games against good teams, so we know we can do it and how to do it.

Reporter: What did you think of your team's unusually high turnovers?

Tovarich: Yeah, 13 might be a record in my career. Whatever their full court press was, it was very annoying, and it never stopped. We were trying to make the long passes over it like we do against the half court trap, but we got a lot of those intercepted. That wasn't the right strategy. I'll have to figure out what it was they did and we'll need a new plan if we see that one again.

Reporter: The in-season signing period is about to open. Do you expect to sign anyone?

Tovarich: I'd love to get one, but I don't think so. It's the long game as usual for all those guys.

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Williams Arena
Minneapolis, MN

Georgia Bulldogs at Minnesota Golden Gophers
Dec 2, 2018	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#1 Georgia (9-0)	27	43	70
Minnesota (2-5)	32	35	67

Georgia Bulldogs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Sanderson, I	22	2-5	1-2	0-0	2	3	3	0	0	5
Horton	22	2-6	1-5	0-0	1	0	2	0	1	5
Sanderson, T	22	2-6	2-6	3-4	1	2	1	0	0	9
Kovacevic	20	7-15	0-0	5-5	5	1	1	0	1	19
Moody	22	9-11	0-0	0-0	6	1	1	1	1	18
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Parsons	6	1-3	0-1	1-1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Root	6	1-2	1-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	3
Fontenet	8	0-0	0-0	1-4	2	0	1	0	0	1
Deren	6	3-4	0-0	1-2	2	1	0	1	1	7
Hart	6	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	1	1	0	1	0
TEAM TOTALS		27-52	5-16	11-16	21	9	10	2	6	70

Minnesota Golden Gophers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Conner, R	21	3-8	1-3	0-0	0	5	0	0	1	7
Carter	22	6-13	2-5	1-1	4	0	2	0	3	15
Guinn	20	3-7	1-3	2-3	7	1	1	1	2	9
Barley	12	4-9	0-0	2-2	9	1	1	1	0	10
Schneider	23	5-6	1-1	3-4	3	3	0	1	1	14
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Conner, J	15	1-3	0-0	2-2	2	0	0	0	3	4
Bullock	15	1-3	0-0	2-2	2	0	0	0	3	4
Washington	11	1-3	0-0	2-2	1	2	0	0	0	4
Messy	8	1-4	0-0	0-0	1	1	0	1	0	2
Ozier	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Hendry	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Caskill	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		25-56	5-14	12-14	28	13	4	5	10	67

Tovarich: We picked the right time to play probably or worst game of the season. It was a pretty low energy effort. Maybe there was some letdown after the Texas Tech comeback game, emotionally draining probably. If we played anyone decent tonight, they'd have beaten us with our C- game. Luckily it was just Minnesota.

Reporter: Are you confident enough in your team's ability now that you don't need to full court press down 3 baskets in the second half?

Tovarich: It was early, so no, I didn't feel like that was necessary. If we got past the halfway point of the 2nd half and we were still down 3 scores, I'd have worried. I know they can play their way out of it, even if it was just barely.

Reporter: You tried the other Sanderson as the late FT shooter. Have you settled on anyone for that role in close games?

Tovarich: No, not really. I don't have anyone all that reliable. Sometimes I feel best about my big guys. That only happens when we force a miss and they get a rebound. In past years, I'd often have called a timeout before they were fouled to inbound it to a guard, but none of my guards inspire a lot of confidence in me at the line like Kovacevic and Moody do.

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Great record, though a few close calls so far. Georgia may be #1 and 9-0, but I am sure that the local news media still doesn't notice as the football team is probably 9-4 and must be paid attention to.

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Welsh-Ryan Arena
Evanston, IL

Georgia Bulldogs at Northwestern Wildcats
Dec 5, 2018	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#1 Georgia (10-0)	38	35	73
#22 Northwestern (8-1)	37	27	64

Georgia Bulldogs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Sanderson, I	22	2-6	1-3	2-2	2	1	0	0	1	7
Horton	22	2-7	1-1	2-2	0	3	2	1	0	7
Sanderson, T	22	2-9	2-8	0-0	0	1	2	0	0	6
Kovacevic	22	6-12	0-0	2-2	11	1	5	0	0	14
Moody	22	6-12	0-0	7-8	5	3	1	3	3	19
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Parsons	6	1-1	0-0	1-3	0	1	0	0	0	3
Root	6	1-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	2
Fontenet	6	2-4	0-0	1-2	0	0	3	0	1	5
Deren	6	3-4	0-0	2-2	1	0	1	1	2	8
Hart	6	1-2	0-0	0-2	1	0	2	0	1	2
TEAM TOTALS		26-59	4-12	17-23	21	10	16	5	8	73

Northwestern Wildcats
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Werner	20	9-14	3-3	0-0	2	9	0	0	2	21
Buckman	20	5-7	3-3	0-0	1	1	1	0	3	13
able	22	5-10	0-2	0-0	2	2	1	0	4	10
Allen	17	1-3	0-0	2-2	10	1	0	2	1	4
Wooten	14	1-2	0-0	0-0	2	2	1	4	0	2
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Ortiz	12	5-7	1-1	0-0	3	1	1	0	2	11
Howel	10	1-6	1-4	0-0	0	0	1	0	4	3
Amous	9	0-3	0-2	0-0	0	2	0	0	2	0
Kole	16	0-3	0-0	0-0	6	0	1	3	0	0
Neverett	-- DID NOT PLAY --
McFadgon	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Wheless	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		27-55	8-15	2-2	26	18	6	9	18	64

Tovarich: Wow, crazy start to that one. It was hard not to feel defeated down 32-12. We got 3 of our first 4 shots in the paint blocked. They started 12/16. We started 4/16. Every block/charge call was against us. We were turning it over. Nothing was going right. Then all of a sudden we go on a 19-0 run and we end up eeking out a 1-point lead at halftime.

Reporter: Are you sure you won't go undefeated?

Tovarich: Yeah, we did this last year too. We got out of some tight situations and pulled a win out of our backside. Eventually the luck runs out. There's skill to winning close games with strategy and clutch shots. There's luck. There's good players taking over and coming back from 20 down. There's opposing coaches who get away from what was working and let you back in for some reason.

Reporter: How did they do that?

Tovarich: Those two guards were each 3/3 on 3's and most of those were before halftime. I think between them they only shot one in the 2nd half. Keep your foot on the pedal. They should never have done anything else until they actually missed. Their press eventually stopped being effective, but they took too long to get out of it. We pressed back of course when you're way down like that, and we got some turnovers to get back in it.

Reporter: Quite a few coaches complain about the FT disparity you always seem to enjoy.

Tovarich: Yeah, we've had some nice lopsided ones like today with the 23-2 advantage. I guess the SEC refs came with us. I don't know why that is. We're aggressive with the big guys and a lot of people just try to jump shoot over us, so maybe they ought to re-think their strategy and get themselves to the line.

Reporter: No signees during the in-season period?

Tovarich: Nope. We have a lot of space on our board as usual. We'll try to cobble some recruits together. I would be stunned if we used all 6 scholarships. Maybe we'll get 4-5 that are worthy and carry one or two over and go harder for a couple select players next year.

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Great record, though a few close calls so far. Georgia may be #1 and 9-0, but I am sure that the local news media still doesn't notice as the football team is probably 9-4 and must be paid attention to.

Ha, yes. The 2018 Georgia football team would be getting ready for an SEC championship game a few days after this Northwestern game. I've cleverly stayed away from home for a month by sending us on a never-ending road trip. Now we go home for Georgia Tech 2 days after the SEC championship and maybe we're worthy of being noticed now. I didn't want to beat the football jokes to death in the questions so I stayed away from those this season even though that's probably how it'd have gone.

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Stegeman Coliseum
Athens, GA

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Georgia Bulldogs
Dec 10, 2018	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#8 Georgia Tech (5-3)	35	42	77
#1 Georgia (11-0)	40	46	86

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Smith	19	2-6	0-2	5-7	0	9	1	0	1	9
Samuel	22	6-11	3-4	0-0	2	3	1	1	2	15
Givens	19	4-5	0-1	0-0	6	1	1	0	1	8
Doellman	11	3-6	0-1	0-0	0	1	0	0	1	6
Hobson	14	2-2	0-0	1-1	2	1	0	0	0	5
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Bojang	13	1-9	0-6	2-2	1	2	1	0	0	4
Schneiderman	13	4-4	1-1	2-2	3	1	1	0	1	11
Dixon	10	2-4	1-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Mikalauskas	9	3-3	0-0	0-0	2	3	2	0	2	6
Bonner	5	1-3	0-1	2-2	0	1	0	0	0	4
Bland	5	2-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	4
Crenshaw	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		30-55	5-19	12-14	17	22	8	1	8	77
TEAM TOTALS		30-55	5-19	12-14	17	22	8	1	8	77

Georgia Bulldogs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Sanderson, I	24	0-0	0-0	4-6	3	2	1	0	4	4
Horton	24	2-2	1-1	3-3	0	2	3	0	1	8
Sanderson, T	24	0-1	0-1	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	0
Kovacevic	24	6-12	0-0	4-5	7	5	1	0	0	16
Moody	19	13-21	0-0	12-13	8	0	2	1	2	38
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Parsons	4	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Root	4	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	2
Fontenet	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	4
Deren	9	6-8	0-0	2-2	4	0	0	0	1	14
Hart	4	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	3	0	0	1	0
TEAM TOTALS		30-49	1-3	25-29	28	14	8	1	9	86

Tovarich: Does anyone need SEVEN point guards? They had some good shooting performances, they just are apparently indecisive about which of their 9 guards to put out there.

Reporter: Was there a plan on offense besides Moody?

Tovarich: Yeah, mix in Kovacevic and Deren occasionally. If you're going to construct a roster with only 2 PF's and we get them both in foul trouble, you have nothing to stop us. All in all, the big guys were mediocre at shooting tonight. Considering who was guarding them, it was maybe below average but they were plan A, plan B, then plan C. To beat us with a roster of 9 guards, you better shoot the lights out and 5-19 on 3's is far from that. They still hung in there well enough because we missed too many easy shots. But in the end, they never really threatened to win. They got to the national championship game with this setup, so maybe that doesn't dissuade them, but I know it's not going to beat us often. In the Center-less ACC, that's probably a fine strategy though.

Reporter: Speaking of that, Boston College next only has 2 PF and no C. Will the plan be the same?

Tovarich: Carbon copy of tonight. They have 3 SF's at least, so there won't be some little pipsqueak PG trying to post up Moody and kicking him in the shins while he tries to turn around and lay it in.

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Stegeman Coliseum
Athens, GA

Boston College Eagles at Georgia Bulldogs
Dec 17, 2018	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#23 Boston College (7-3)	30	29	59
#1 Georgia (12-0)	56	44	100

Boston College Eagles
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Kuhle	22	4-8	1-4	3-3	0	4	1	1	3	12
Ariza	22	7-8	2-3	0-0	3	1	0	0	3	16
Souchu	24	3-11	2-6	0-0	1	3	0	0	1	8
Okosa	25	5-8	1-1	0-0	5	2	0	0	0	11
Elliott	21	0-7	0-3	1-2	4	4	2	1	1	1
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Herman	1	2-6	1-2	0-0	2	4	0	0	0	5
Galbreath	2	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burnett	11	3-7	0-1	0-0	4	1	1	0	1	5
Freije	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Bazin	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Riddick	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Stys	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		24-57	7-22	4-5	19	19	4	2	9	59
TEAM TOTALS		24-57	7-22	4-5	19	19	4	2	9	59

Georgia Bulldogs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Sanderson, I	17	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	3	2	0	1	0
Horton	17	2-6	2-4	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	6
Sanderson, T	17	9-11	5-7	2-2	2	1	1	0	0	25
Kovacevic	17	2-2	0-0	1-1	10	4	0	0	0	5
Moody	15	11-14	0-0	6-6	6	1	0	1	2	28
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Parsons	11	1-1	0-0	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	2
Root	11	0-6	0-2	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Fontenet	11	6-9	0-0	2-2	2	0	3	1	0	14
Deren	13	10-13	0-0	0-1	8	1	1	1	1	20
Hart	11	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	1	0
TEAM TOTALS		41-65	7-13	11-12	34	13	8	3	5	100

Tovarich: That was over pretty quickly.

Reporter: Do you think the other coaches will ever catch on and change their ways?

Tovarich: Not likely. I know good centers are hard to come by in recruiting, but the world has too many PG's.

Reporter: Is it true that you've only offered 1 of your 6 scholarships?

Tovarich: Yeah, we had to regroup after the in-season signing period was such a disaster. We're still trying to scout out who's worth signing and who isn't. The assistants are needed for that one. I don't really bother with scouting. I'm all in on my recruiting pitch and developing the skills. It's literally the one weakness in my coaching I have to rely on the assistants for.

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Aeropostale Holiday Festival Semifinal
Carnesecca Arena
Jamaica, NY

Georgia Bulldogs at Towson Tigers
Dec 28, 2018	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#1 Georgia (13-0)	50	38	88
Towson (6-3)	46	40	86

Georgia Bulldogs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Sanderson, I	25	4-6	3-5	3-4	1	5	0	0	2	14
Horton	25	4-8	3-7	0-0	2	2	0	0	0	11
Sanderson, T	25	2-7	2-7	0-0	1	2	1	1	0	6
Kovacevic	25	6-11	0-0	3-5	6	6	1	0	0	15
Moody	25	14-19	0-0	2-2	4	1	4	3	0	30
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Parsons	3	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Root	3	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fontenet	3	2-3	0-0	1-2	2	2	0	0	0	5
Deren	3	2-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	4
Hart	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	0	2	0	0	0	3
TEAM TOTALS		35-59	9-22	9-13	17	20	6	4	2	88

Towson Tigers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Udezue	26	11-14	6-8	2-2	0	11	0	0	1	30
McElroy	24	10-15	2-5	0-1	2	3	2	0	0	22
Minter	23	6-7	2-2	3-3	6	1	0	0	3	17
Hurley	24	1-2	0-1	6-6	5	3	0	1	2	8
Lett	22	0-8	0-0	1-2	9	6	0	0	1	1
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Newby	8	3-3	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	6
Louh	7	1-3	0-1	0-0	0	2	0	0	0	2
Mason	2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Cruz	2	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Matthews	2	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Walls	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Faulkner	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		32-53	10-17	12-14	25	26	2	1	9	86

Tovarich: Gosh, where to begin...I should amend a previous statement I made about a month ago when I said Minnesota was our second worst non-conference opponent. I assumed Towson was the worst. Minnesota is quite the worst, by far. Towson's better than 5 SEC teams. Combine that with the magic of tournament semifinals that I've experienced a good dozen times, and it was almost a magical upset for them. Kovacevic hit the hook shot with 2 seconds to go. And luckily it was 2 flat because they made the usual full court pass and that guy hit the 3 but the buzzer had gone off just a tenth or two before. Same thing happened to us before halftime with Sanderson's that went in. So fair's fair there. If there was 2.2, he'd have nailed that for the win because none of their guards could miss. That Udezue guy averages 6.8 ppg and went for 30 today. Total insanity. If they'd won, they probably should have renamed the university in his honor for the crazy game. And everyone he passed to couldn't miss either. We're lucky their center was a total miss on every shot. They killed us on the boards though. We're lucky to survive such insane shooting. I thought we might be done down 14 in the first half, which was 2 or 3 difference occasions.

Reporter: Does your team believe they can come back from any situation and win?

Tovarich: They've done it just about every which way possible these last two seasons, so it's hard not to. But sometimes we've run into teams with these crazy shooting numbers and couldn't get out of it. 2 of our 3 losses were at the buzzer last year accompanied by 60+% shooting and we almost got that today, they were just a tenth or two too late.

Reporter: Is the team looking ahead to the Game of the Century next week?

Tovarich: Oh please no, you football folks need to stop overusing that one. Don't bring it to regular season basketball now. We need to focus on the final tomorrow. I presume it'll be Rutgers, who already gave us a reasonably tough game up at their place early.

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Aeropostale Holiday Festival Championship
Carnesecca Arena
Jamaica, NY

Georgia Bulldogs at Rider Broncs
Dec 29, 2018	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#1 Georgia (14-0)	58	40	98
Rider (5-10)	25	43	68

Georgia Bulldogs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Sanderson, I	13	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	4	1	0	1	2
Horton	13	0-2	0-2	3-4	0	3	0	0	0	3
Sanderson, T	13	8-8	5-5	1-2	1	0	1	0	0	22
Kovacevic	14	2-2	0-0	1-1	4	1	3	0	0	5
Moody	13	9-9	0-0	1-5	3	0	0	0	1	19
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Parsons	15	3-7	0-2	0-0	0	2	0	0	0	6
Root	15	3-5	1-1	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	7
Fontenet	15	4-6	0-0	1-2	3	4	3	0	1	9
Deren	14	9-11	0-0	2-2	5	1	3	0	0	20
Hart	15	2-3	1-1	0-0	1	1	2	0	3	5
TEAM TOTALS		41-54	7-11	9-16	20	16	13	0	6	98

Rider Broncs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Kim	24	6-9	1-3	2-2	1	5	2	1	1	15
Cammon	18	4-10	1-4	4-4	0	5	0	1	1	13
Lewis	25	5-11	1-5	0-0	1	2	1	0	5	11
Garnett	16	2-2	0-0	0-0	4	0	0	0	2	4
Bauer	22	4-7	0-0	0-0	9	5	2	2	0	8
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Byerson	5	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	2
Mohammed	3	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Burton	7	2-3	1-2	0-0	0	2	0	0	1	5
Murphy	9	2-3	1-1	0-0	0	1	1	0	2	5
Fuller	5	0-1	0-0	1-2	1	1	0	0	0	1
Mullins	7	1-4	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Civi	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		28-52	5-17	7-8	16	22	6	4	13	68

Tovarich: Disappointing not to get Rutgers. That game served no real purpose.

Reporter: How big will the Game of the Century be?

Tovarich: (glares)

Reporter: It's the most important game in the history of Georgia basketball coach!

Tovarich: It's not a conference game. It'll perhaps be a preview of a meaningful game in April if we're lucky. The result now is not that important.

Reporter: It's the Game of the Century coach!

Tovarich: Happy New Year everyone.

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NCAA Hoops Rankings - AP Top 25 - Updated: Dec 30, 2018
RK	LW	TEAM (VOTES)	RECORD
1	1	Georgia	14-0
2	2	Florida State	8-0
3	3	Oregon	12-0
4	4	Pittsburgh	10-1
5	5	South Florida	10-0
6	6	Arizona	11-1
7	13	Indiana	9-1
8	10	North Carolina State	10-2
9	7	Marquette	11-2
10	16	Clemson	14-3
11	17	Richmond	13-0
12	18	Virginia Tech	18-0
13	19	Tennessee	11-1
14	11	Georgia Tech	9-5
15	9	Michigan State	9-2
16	8	UNLV	9-2
17	12	Brigham Young	13-0
18	21	Auburn	8-1
19	23	Alabama	11-2
20	14	Southern California	10-2
21	22	Kansas	10-1
22	NR	Syracuse	1-0
23	15	West Virginia	9-3
24	20	Duke	10-4
25	25	Boston College	9-3

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Non-Conference Tournament Winners:
"2K Sports College Hoops Classic" aka Coaches vs. Cancer Classic: Pittsburgh
Hangar Classic: New Mexico
Cyclone Classic: Oklahoma
CBE Classic: Northwestern
Pre-Season NIT: Southern California
"Palm Tree Shootout" aka Puerto Rico Tip-off: Arkansas
"Polar Bear Tipoff Classic: aka Top of the World Classic: Arizona State
100 Club Classic: Eastern Illinois
Paradise Jam: La Salle
"Hawaiian Invitational" aka Maui Invitational: Georgia
Great Alaska Shootout: Pepperdine
"Orange County Shootout aka Wooden Legacy: Tennessee
"Deodorant Classic" aka Old Spice Classic: Alabama
Deep Dish Challenge A: Purdue
Deep Dish Challenge B: Cal State Bakersfield
Liberty Bell Classic A: Niagara
Liberty Bell Classic B: Virginia
South Padre Island Tournament A: Mississippi
South Padre Island Tournament B: Wisconsin-Green Bay
"Blackjack Shootout A" aka Las Vegas Invitational: Utah
"Blackjack Shootout B" aka Las Vegas Invitational: Iona
Legends Classic: Mississippi State
"Big Tree Tournament" aka Montana State Bobcat Classic: San Francisco
Drake Iowa Realty Tournament: Richmond
Hawkeye Challenge: Tulane
Drake Regency Classic: Hampton
"Hawaiian Island Classic" aka Rainbow Classic: Fresno State
Gossner Foods Holiday Classic: Western Kentucky
"Daylight Bowl Tournament" aka Sun Bowl Classic: Colorado State
Jackpot Challenge A: Michigan State
Jackpot Challenge B: Grambling
"Casual Apparel" aka Aeropostale Holiday Festival: Georgia
Cable Car Classic: Gonzaga
"Gulf Coast Challenge" aka Flint Hills Tournament: Akron
Golden Bear Classic: Bucknell
Shamrock Office Solutions Classic: Howard
Cougar Classic: Wofford
"Railroad Classic" aka Dr. Pepper Classic: Davidson
UCF Holiday Classic: Rice

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Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center
Tallahassee, FL

Georgia Bulldogs at Florida State Seminoles
Jan 5, 2019	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#1 Georgia (15-0)	33	32	65
#2 Florida State (8-1)	30	30	62

Georgia Bulldogs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Sanderson, I	23	0-9	0-6	0-0	2	2	6	0	2	0
Horton	23	3-7	2-6	0-0	2	0	0	0	1	8
Sanderson, T	22	6-18	5-12	3-5	3	0	0	0	0	20
Kovacevic	23	1-2	0-0	2-2	11	5	0	1	0	4
Moody	21	8-13	0-0	2-3	8	1	2	0	1	18
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Parsons	5	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Root	6	2-4	2-4	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	6
Fontenet	5	3-3	0-0	1-1	0	0	1	0	0	7
Deren	7	1-5	0-0	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	2
Hart	5	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	2	0	0	0	0
TEAM TOTALS		24-63	9-30	8-11	29	11	10	1	4	65

Florida State Seminoles
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Mencio	23	7-14	1-4	2-2	2	6	1	0	3	17
Iti	25	4-7	2-3	4-4	1	2	0	0	1	14
Carmichael	22	3-8	0-2	0-0	4	1	0	0	0	6
Gross	23	6-7	1-1	3-3	11	3	0	1	2	16
Stephenson	16	0-2	0-0	2-4	6	1	0	0	0	2
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Wheless	8	0-1	0-0	2-2	2	1	0	0	0	2
Pinnock	1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Mendez	10	1-4	0-1	0-0	5	0	0	2	2	2
Devance	6	1-2	1-2	0-0	1	0	1	0	2	3
Schultz	6	0-2	0-0	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	0
Tsimpliavidis	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Dillon	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		22-49	5-13	13-15	34	14	4	3	10	62

Tovarich: Bizarre ending. I'll take it, but very surprising how it all finished. I thought they tied it up with 35 seconds to go. I guess his foot was on the line, so we were still up 1. They started the fouling, but we were able to throw it into the back court and run around and waste some time and by the time they shuffled through all their fouls to give because the refs were so bias all game, we had run it down to 5.5. Sanderson hit both FT's to put us back up 3. We started with the fouling. We had 2 to give I think, unlike the 5 they had. They made a long pass down court but the guy was inside the arc, so they called timeout with 1.2 and ended up inbounding it to someone who was also inside the arc. By the time he passed it out to someone who was beyond the 3 line, time ran out. He missed anyway, which is refreshing. We're great at letting people score at the buzzer.

Reporter: Now that you've won the Game of the Century

Tovarich: OK, but really. Please kill that. College Football's regular season is way more important...as long as they don't go expanding their playoffs from 4 to 12 or some crazier number like 14. 1 vs. 2 in the first week of January means next to nothing when March and April come around.

Reporter: What did you think of your shooting?

Tovarich: Points in the paint felt hard to come by. I was surprised Moody only had 5 misses. It felt like more. We had 3 3's blocked. Deren struggled. Irakli was useless. He was in foul trouble all game on top of it. He had some steals, or that'd have been one of the all-time worst games I've ever seen. The other Sanderson was 5/7 on 3's and then cooled off. He should probably refrain from shooting 2's. Couple guys were on. The Seminoles shooting was a little better. We just outshot them somehow. That partly had to be all the FT's they were racking up compared to us because we got outrebounded and we were only +6 in turnovers.

Reporter: So what does the win actually mean?

Tovarich: That we're in good shape for the overall #1 seed, but that doesn't mean much. Any 1 seed works for me. It's all about the matchups and those are random. We could still get some crazy 8 or 9 seed who's rated higher than us, or a 5 seed in the Sweet 16 who shoots like crazy and beats us at the buzzer. There's no real advantage to being overall #1 except you get the worst 16. After the 1st round, everything's a dogfight usually.

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Stegeman Coliseum
Athens, GA

Vanderbilt Commodores at Georgia Bulldogs
Jan 11, 2019	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Vanderbilt (8-3)	32	31	63
#1 Georgia (16-0)	45	27	72

Vanderbilt Commodores
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Amerson	22	5-8	3-5	0-0	0	4	0	1	1	13
Dumont	20	3-8	2-5	2-2	1	1	0	0	3	10
Giles	22	6-14	4-11	2-2	7	3	0	0	4	18
Abukar	21	0-0	0-0	2-2	9	2	1	4	2	2
Laurelin	21	3-5	0-1	1-1	4	1	1	0	2	7
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Dunn	14	2-2	1-1	0-0	0	5	0	0	3	5
Lawrence	11	2-5	1-2	0-0	5	0	0	0	1	5
Boythe	1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kounkorgo	7	1-1	1-1	0-0	0	4	1	1	1	3
Baldwin	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Krymski	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Jimenez	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		22-46	12-26	7-7	26	20	3	6	17	63
TEAM TOTALS		22-46	12-26	7-7	26	20	3	6	17	63

Georgia Bulldogs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Sanderson, I	21	2-4	1-1	1-2	2	2	3	0	1	6
Horton	21	3-7	0-2	0-0	1	2	2	0	0	6
Sanderson, T	21	58-11	2-6	0-0	2	2	2	0	2	12
Kovacevic	21	4-7	0-0	1-2	11	5	6	1	0	9
Moody	21	12-19	0-0	2-3	4	1	1	1	0	26
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Parsons	7	0-2	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Root	7	0-3	0-3	0-0	0	0	1	0	1	0
Fontenet	7	1-2	0-0	1-1	2	0	0	0	1	3
Deren	7	4-8	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	8
Hart	7	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	2	0	0	2
TEAM TOTALS		32-64	3-13	5-8	24	13	18	2	5	72

Tovarich: Luckily we had built up a nice 17 or so point lead. We went pretty cold at the end and they were bombing 3's the entire game really. But especially there at the end. I don't know if 18? or 17? turnovers since the statistics are unclear there, is a record for a game where we never pressed, but it's gotta be up there.

Reporter: Who in the SEC will challenge you?

Tovarich: I don't know. I'm not much of a scouter. Vanderbilt's another flawed roster. I guess it's not a big deal to have no C if you have some height and depth at PF. But like many of the rosters with no C, they only had 2 PF's. And like Florida State and Georgia Tech, they start both PF's on the active roster. So, if one's in foul trouble or they both need a breather simultaneously, you're sending some SF out there. We always have a center on the floor. Worst case scenario, 6'11" Kovacevic can play there as a PF. There's always an advantage for us. So, the first thing required is semi-competent roster management, which apparently no one has. The alternative is shoot the lights out. Vanderbilt made 12 3's and barely made it interesting in the end because they shot poorly from inside the arc. Someone will get us because we play poorly most likely. Or some craziness at the buzzer. It could be anyone. Everyone in the conference seems competent except for Mississippi.