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MBB: Georgia will face the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Stegeman Coliseum on Tuesday, December 3 as part of the 2024 SEC-ACC Challenge

The matchup is one of nine contests set for Dec. 3. The other six games will be played on Wednesday, Dec. 4.

The SEC-ACC Challenge began last season, with the leagues splitting the 14 games. The Bulldogs helped a late surge by the SEC by rallying from a 17-point deficit with 6:37 remaining to defeat Florida State in Tallahassee, 68-66.

Georgia is 2-2 all-time against the Irish. The Bulldogs topped Notre Dame, 77-62, on Dec. 18, 2022 in head coach Mike White’s first season at UGA as part of the Holiday Hoopsgiving event at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Georgia also defeated Notre Dame during the 2011-12 season after dropping the first two matchups in the series during the 1993-94 and 2010-11 campaign.

The other Dec. 3 contests of the Challenge include Arkansas at Miami; Cal at Missouri; Florida State at LSU; Georgia Tech at Oklahoma; Kentucky at Clemson; Ole Miss at Louisville; South Carolina at Boston College; Syracuse at Tennessee; and Wake Forest at Texas. The Dec. 4 games include Alabama at North Carolina; Auburn at Duke; Pitt at Mississippi State; Texas at N.C. State; Vanderbilt at Virginia Tech; and Virginia at Florida.

Three games on the Bulldogs’ 2024-25 schedule are now set. In addition to hosting Notre Dame, Georgia will face Marquette and St. John’s on Nov. 23 and Nov. 24, respectively, at the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort in The Bahamas.

The Bulldogs’ 2024-25 roster is led by three returning starters, sophomores Blue Cain, Silas Demary Jr. and Dylan James. Georgia has signed eight newcomers – three freshmen and five transfers. The high school class is ranked as high as No. 13 nationally by rivals.com, while the quintet of transfers has been tabbed as high as No. 8 by On3.com.

The Bulldogs will look to continue their consistent improvement under White. Georgia won 10 more regular-season games in White’s first season in Athens than the previous year, the second-largest increase of any Power conference program. Last season, the Bulldogs earned their first postseason bid since 2017 and in advancing to the semifinals of the NIT, produced their first 20-win campaign since 2016.

WBB: UGA will host Virginia Tech on Wednesday, Dec. 4 as part of the SEC-ACC Challenge

This is the first announced opponent of Georgia’s upcoming 2024-25 non-conference slate. The remaining schedule, along with game times, will be announced at a later date. 

Georgia owns a 4-0 lead in the all-time series against the Hokies, with the last meeting coming in 2019. This year’s contest will mark the first-ever matchup between the two teams in Athens. 

The Lady Bulldogs return five letterwinners, including a pair off starters, to go along with a highly-touted freshman class. Georgia welcomes four top-100 freshmen (Indya and Summer Davis, Mia Woolfolk and Trinity Turner) along with transfers Nyah Leveretter and Roxane Makolo. 

Virginia Tech is in its first season under the leadership of new head coach Megan Duffy. The Hokies went 25-8 overall and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament last season. 

Josh Brooks Named to NCAA Division I Council

Georgia’s J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Josh Brooks has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Council, effective immediately, with a term that lasts through June 2028.

Each member of the 40-person Division I Council is appointed by the NCAA Board of Directors. The Council is a high-level group responsible for Division I’s day-to-day decision-making, and its members include athletics directors, administrators, Senior Woman Administrators, faculty athletics representatives, and student-athletes.

Brooks joins Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey as the two representatives from the SEC. UGA president Jere W. Morehead serves as Chair of the Division I Board of Directors, is a member of the NCAA Division I Administrative Committee, and a member of the NCAA Board of Governors.

Under his leadership, Georgia Athletics has experienced remarkable success, including a No. 7 final ranking in the 2023 LEARFIELD Directors Cup — Georgia’s highest mark in 18 years — a record-setting student-athlete GPA in each of the last two academic years, unparalleled fundraising and over 15 capital projects that have been completed or are in progress.

Bulldog athletic teams have won a trio of team national championships,15 individual national titles and seven SEC championships over the last three years. Brooks has hired new head coaches for 17 of Georgia’s 21 sports, and those hires have gone onto finish in the top-10 of their sport’s respective NCAA Championships an impressive 14 times.

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