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SB: Georgia Bulldogs Host Clemson at Jack Turner Stadium Tonight

The No. 11 Georgia Bulldogs will host the Clemson Tigers at the Jack Turner Stadium on Wednesday night at 6:00 p.m. ET. Georgia enters the game at 13-4 while Clemson sits at 10-5.

No. 11/15 Georgia
vs. Clemson
Location: Athens, Ga.
Venue: Jack Turner Stadium
First Pitch: 6:00 p.m. ET
General Admission Gates: 5:00 p.m. ET
Promotion: LED Batons for the first 200 fans

Media Information
Streaming: SEC Network+
                  PxP: Kaleb Frady; Analyst: Mary Wilson Avant
Live Updates: GeorgiaDogs.com 
X Updates: @UGASoftball

Leading Off
No. 11 Georgia enters Wednesday night’s match-up against Clemson on the back of a 3-2 showing in the 23rd Annual Georgia Classic at the Jack Turner Stadium. Wednesday night’s game will be ‘Wednesday Night Lights,’ and the first 200 fans will receive free LED Batons. Kids can stay after the game to run the bases. 

Series History
Clemson
– Georgia is 2-3 all-time against Clemson 
– In the last meeting, the Tigers defeated the Bulldogs, 5-3, at the McWhorter Stadium in Clemson, S.C.
– Under Baldwin, Georgia is 2-2 against Clemson
– Georgia’s last win, 2-1 (8 inn.), was here in Athens on Feb. 28, 2024

Georgia in the Polls
Georgia in the Polls: Week Three
     – NFCA/GoRout: 15
     – ESPN/USA Softball: 11
     – D1Softball: 11
     – Softball America: 12

Opponent Outlook
The Tigers enter Wednesday night at 10-5 after going 4-1 last week. Clemson kicked the week off with a non-conference date with Charlotte, dropping the game 8-3, but bounced back over the weekend going 4-0 with a pair of wins over Baylor, as well as wins over Coastal Carolina and Lipscomb. In the four wins over the weekend, the Tigers outscored their opponents 27-0 with three run-rule decisions.

Abby Dunning and Sierra Maness have made a combined 18 appearances in the circle for Clemson this season. Dunning, sitting at 4-2 on the year, owns a 3.33 ERA with 26 strikeouts and 17 walks across 27.1 innings pitched. Maness is also 4-2 on the year with a 2.53 ERA and 24 strikeouts to 14 walks. As a pitching staff, the Tigers have a collective ERA of 3.09 while holding opponent batters to a .237 batting average.

Marian Collins has paced the Tiger offense so far this year, batting at a .435-clip with 20 hits, 10 runs, two doubles and three home runs. She’s also driven in 13 runs through the first 15 games. The Clemson offense is batting .290 to start the season with 109 hits, 82 runs scored, 19 doubles, four triples, 10 home runs and 72 RBIs. 

BSB: Georgia Hosts Troy Today

Eighth-ranked Georgia plays host to Troy on Wednesday at Foley Field. The first pitch is at 3:02 p.m. and will be available on SECN+ and the Georgia Bulldog Sports Network.

In the national top 25 polls this week, Georgia (6-1) is ranked as high as No. 8 (Baseball America) and is a consensus top 11 team. The Bulldogs went 4-0 last week, including a three-game sweep of Samford, outscoring the Bulldogs from Alabama 45-5. 

Georgia is 1-0 all-time against Sun Belt member Troy, the lone meeting coming during the 2018 NCAA Athens Regional (W, 11-7). Troy (3-4) won two of three at home against Campbell this past weekend. 

Georgia-Troy Pitching Matchup

Wednesday: Justin Byrd (0-0, 0.00 ERA), RHP, RJr., vs. Brock Tapper (0-0, 18.00 ERA), LHP, Sr. 

Byrd, a 6-2, 203-pound right-hander, makes his first career start as a Bulldog after two relief outings this year and 18 last year. In 2025, he went 0-0, 3.74 ERA in 21.2 IP with 26 K and 6 BB. 

*Last weekend, Georgia posted a 1.96 ERA with 38 strikeouts and nine walks in a sweep of Samford. Nine pitchers saw action, with two of the games ending after seven innings due to the 10-run rule. 

*Overall, Georgia has a 2.84 ERA with 96 strikeouts to 19 walks in 57 innings pitched.

Georgia Hitters To Watch

*Junior third baseman Tre Phelps (.522-3-7) has hit safely in every game this year and 21 straight dating to the 2025 season. Also, he’s been hit a team-high seven times. 

*Sophomore INF/OF Henry Allen (.500-3-12) posted a monster week, batting .538 (7-for-13) with a 1.231 SLG%, seven runs scored, three doubles, three walks, two home runs and 11 RBI.

*Sophomore INF/OF Rylan Lujo has a team-best .615 average (8-for-13) with eight runs scored, two home runs and six RBI. 

*Junior C/OF Daniel Jackson (.370-4-11) leads the team in home runs and stolen bases (4-for-4).               

*Senior SS Kolby Branch (.250-3-6) has hit a home run in three straight games.

*Overall, the Bulldogs batted .394 with 14 home runs in outscoring Samford 45-5 for a series sweep.

*For the season, Georgia is batting .356 with a .756 SLG% and .488 OB%.

Georgia is averaging 3.43 Home Runs per Game (HR/G) in 2026. The 2025 squad averaged 2.40 HR/G while the 2024 team averaged 2.52 HR/G. Georgia set a school record for home runs in 2024 with 151, while last year’s squad finished with the second most in school history (144). 

Wednesday @ 3:02 p.m. ET

Radio/TV: 960TheRef (Jeff Dantzler & David Johnston)

https://georgiadogs.com/watch/?Live=4969

SECN+: https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/ac88c870-bb53-4a16-a367-b2600f0c00bd

Live Stats: https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=631895

Foley Field In 2026

• Foley Field Gates Open 1 hour before first pitch 
• Tickets –Available; Also Available on SeatGeek: https://seatgeek.com/georgia-bulldogs-baseball-tickets
• UGA STUDENTS:  Free Admission and please enter at 3^rd Base Gate

MBB: Bulldogs Travel to Nashville, Face No. 25/21 Vanderbilt Tonight

Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Time: 7:00 p.m. ET

Venue: Memorial Gymnasium (14,316)

Location: Nashville, Tenn.

TV: SEC Network (Mike Morgan, play-by-play; Rodney Terry, analyst)

Radio: Georgia Bulldog Network – Sirius 381 (Scott Howard, play-by-play; Chuck Dowdle, analyst; Adam Gillespie, producer)

The Starting Five

• Georgia looks to continue to build momentum following back-to-back wins over a pair of projected NCAA Tournament teams last week – Kentucky and Texas – when the Bulldogs travel to Nashville to face No. 25/21 Vanderbilt on Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.

• The Bulldogs are one victory shy of posting three straight 20-win seasons for just the third time ever. It would be UGA’s 16th 20-win tally…but only the sixth time reaching that plateau in the regular season.

• Georgia entered this week leading the nation in percentage of field goals that are dunks at 18.5 percent (167 of 842 FGs). Individually, Somto Cyril was tied as the nation’s top dunker with 71 rim rattlers.

• During the Texas win, Somto Cyril passed the 100 FG minimum to qualify for UGA’s single-season records. He is shooting a school-record 74.6 percent, 10.3 percent better than the previous mark.

• Blue Cain, who is 35 points shy of 1,000 for his career, is the only Bulldog to start every game this season. He has now started 68 straight contests dating back to the last eight outings of his freshman year.

Keeping An Eye On…

Entering Today’s Game:

Among UGA’s Career Leaders

Blue Cain is…

• 6 3-pointers from No. 15 Jabri Abdur-Rahim

• 9 3-pointers from co-No. 13s Ty Wilson and Ray Harrison

• 19 3-point attempts from No. 12 Ray Harrison

• 35 points from becoming UGA’s 49th 1,000-point scorer and the first since Yante Mateo in 2017

Somto Cyril is…

• 1 block from No. 10 Chris Daniels

• 2 blocks from No. 9 Marcus Thornton

• 5 blocks from Co-No. 7 Willie Anderson and Nicolas Clayton

• 18 blocks from No. 6 Donte Williams

Among UGA’s Season Leaders

Somto Cyril is…

• 9 blocks from No. 6 Lavon Mercer (’80)

• 14 blocks from No. 5 Nicolas Clayton (’19)

The Opening Tip

Georgia looks to continue to build late-season momentum on Wednesday when it treks to Nashville to face No. 25/21 Vanderbilt at 7:00 p.m. ET.  The Bulldogs are coming off back-to-back victories over projected NCAA Tournament teams.

Last Tuesday, Georgia defeated Kentucky, 86-78, to earn just its fifth win in 45 trips to Rupp Arena. The Bulldogs returned to Stegeman Coliseum on Saturday to top Texas, 91-80, before a boisterous sellout crowd.

Georgia now finds itself one victory shy of its third-consecutive 20-win campaign, a feat the Bulldogs have only accomplished twice in 120 seasons of competition (also from 1996-98 and 2014-16).

According to bracketmatrix.com, Georgia is a unanimous pick for the NCAA Tournament, with the Bulldogs appearing in all 112 projections for “March Madness” by various bracketologists as of Monday.

Georgia’s statistical resume for the 2025-26 campaign is quite impressive.

As of Monday, the Bulldogs led all 365 D-I programs in both fastbreak points (20.9 ppg) and blocks (6.4 bpg) and also were ranked among the top-10 nationally in scoring (No. 4 at 90.2 ppg) and bench points (No. 10 at 34.1 ppg). 

Georgia has a deep rotation playing at a pace among the country’s quickest. 

Eleven Bulldogs are averaging double-figure minutes, and they have combined to record 111 double-figure scoring outputs this season. Jeremiah Wilkinson is averaging a team-high 17.3 ppg, while Blue Cain is contributing 13.8 ppg, Marcus “Smurf” Millender is chipping in 12.2 ppg and Kanon Catchings is adding 10.7 ppg.

The Bulldogs entered this week ranked in the top 15 of the oft-used metric KenPom.com in both average offensive possession length (No. 10 at 15.3) and adjusted tempo (No. 15 at 71.6).

Scouting The Commodores

Vanderbilt has been one of college basketball’s top stories this season, climbing into the top-10 of both polls after racing to a 16-0 start and being one of Division I’s last undefeated teams until Jan. 14. The Commodores enter Wednesday’s game at 21-6 overall and 8-6 in SEC play.

Tyler Tanner leads a potent offensive attack for Vandy, averaging 18.5 points and 5.2 assists per game. Tanner is ranked among the SEC top-5 leaders in no less than five statistics – No. 1 in steals, No. 3 in assists, No. 4 in assist-to-turnover ratio and No. 5 in both scoring and free throw percentage.

Duke Miles, who last Saturday against Tennessee returned to action following a seven-game gap in PT due to a knee injury, averages 16.4 ppg. Tyler Nickel and Dexter McGlockton also produce points at double-digit rates of 14.3 ppg and 10.4 ppg, respectively.

Series History With Vandy

Vanderbilt owns a 95-58 lead in the all-time series between the Bulldogs and the Commodores.

In last season’s regular-season finale on March 8, a balanced attack with four double-digit Bulldogs led Georgia in a 79-68 win over Vanderbilt before a sellout crowd at Stegeman Coliseum.

Seniors Tyrin Lawrence and Dakota Leffew were keys to the win. Lawrence, a former Commodore, scored nine first-half points and Leffew put up all of his 14 points following intermission, including 10 in a 15-0 run to ice the victory.

The win capped a four-game winning streak to finish the regular season that locked up the Bulldogs’ first NCAA Tournament bid in a decade.

The Bulldogs’ most recent trip to Nashville was on Feb. 21, 2024 when Noah Thomasson scored all of his team-high 17 points in the first half to lead Georgia in a 76-64 win. 

The Bulldogs opened up a double-digit lead midway through the first period and never allowed Vanderbilt closer than 10 points thereafter. The margin eventually bulged to 23 points.

Georgia shot 52.8 percent from the floor, the Bulldogs’ best performance in an SEC game during Mike White’s first two seasons in Athens.

Last Time Out

Georgia started quickly and then withstood a furious rally attempt to defeat Texas, 91-80, last Saturday before a capacity crowd at Stegeman Coliseum.

The Bulldogs raced to a 17-point, 26-9 lead less than 12 minutes into the game and maintained a double-figure edge at halftime. Marcus “Smurf” Millender paced Georgia in the opening 20 minutes with 13 points on a perfect 5-of-5 effort from the field, including 3-of-3 from 3-point range.

The Longhorns eventually knotted the game at 67-67 with 7:37 remaining before consecutive buckets from Justin Abson within just 73 seconds put the Bulldogs up 71-67 and ignited a 24-13 surge to finish the afternoon.

“We put together a pretty good 40 today,” head coach Mike White said. “They’re really talented. They’re resilient, really physical. They’ve got really good length defensively. They’ve got good speed. (We) got off to a really good start, with our intensity level. We talked a lot with our guys these last couple days about the fact that, we’re coming off a game when we played with a lot of edge in Lexington. We were really, really competitive. We haven’t always seen that.”

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