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MBB: Game 6: Georgia (2-3) vs. Winthrop (4-2) Tonight

Time: 5:00 p.m. ET

Venue: Stegeman Coliseum (10,523)

Location: Athens, Ga.

Series History: UGA leads, 6-1

Last Meeting: UGA, 87-82, on 12/5/17

Video: SEC Network+ (Jeff Dantzler, play-by-play; Marcus Thornton, color analyst)

Radio: Georgia Bulldog Network – SiriusXM 388 (Scott Howard, play-by-play; Chuck Dowdle, color analyst; Adam Gillespie, producer)

The Starting Five

• Georgia hosts Winthrop on Friday to open a span in which the Bulldogs will play seven home games in eight outings. Georgia will travel to Florida State next Wednesday before six consecutive contests at Stegeman Coliseum throughout December.

• Georgia is the nation’s only Power conference team to: 1) open its season with back-to-back games versus Power conference programs (Oregon and Wake Forest); and 2) face four Power conference foes in its first five outings (UO, WFU, Miami and Providence).

• According to kenpom.com through games of Nov. 22, Georgia has the best adjusted tempo in the SEC (No. 42 nationally) and has played the league’s second-toughest schedule to date (No. 44 nationally). 

• Georgia’s freshman and transfer recruiting classes both were ranked as high as No. 11. The Bulldogs were only one of three teams to have both of those groups ranked top-20 nationally by On3.com.

• In Mike White’s first season at Georgia, the Bulldogs upped their win total from 2021-22 by 10 victories. That equaled the second-biggest increase in regular-season wins by any Power conference men’s hoops program and represented just the sixth time in the last decade an SEC team improved its win total by double digits in the regular season.

The Opening Tip

After playing three of their first five games away from Athens, the Georgia Bulldogs open a home-heavy portion of their schedule on Friday by hosting the Winthrop Eagles at 5:00 p.m. at Stegeman Coliseum. The Bulldogs will play seven of eight games at Stegeman Coliseum to close out the 2023 calendar.

Georgia will travel to Florida State next Wednesday as part of the inaugural ACC/SEC Challenge before returning to Stegeman for six straight home dates in December.

The Bulldogs are 2-3 following a demanding slate to begin the 2023-24 campaign. Georgia was the only power conference team in the nation to begin the year by facing four power conference foes in its first five games.

Winthrop arrives in Athens with a 4-2 record. Last weekend, the Eagles swept Holy Cross, IUPUI and Elon as part of the Rock Hill Classic.

Scouting The Eagles

Winthrop is 4-2 on the young season. The Eagles opened the year with a 78-56 setback at Clemson. Last weekend, Winthrop won all three of its outings as part of the Rock Hill Classic.

Skip Prosser is in his third season with the Eagles. In 2021-22, his first season in Rock Hill, Prosser led Winthrop to the Big South regular-season championship and a 23-win campaign that included a perfect 13-0 home mark.

Winthrop sports no less than five double-digit scorers. Kelton Talford paces the Eagles at 14.0 ppg, followed by K.J. Doucet at 11.8 ppg, Nick Johnson at 11.2 ppg, Noah Van Bibber at 11.0 ppg and Sin’Cere McMahon at 10.0 ppg. Alex Timmerman leads Winthrop at 5.0 rpg.

Series History With Winthrop

Georgia owns a 6-1 lead in its all-time series with Winthrop, including a 5-1 mark at Stegeman Coliseum.

In the most recent matchup on Dec. 5, 1017, Georgia defeated Winthrop 87-82 on Dec. 5 in a high-scoring, back-and-forth contest featuring 12 ties and 10 lead changes. 

In the eighth game of the season, Yante Maten posted eighth consecutive double-digit scoring game and his fourth double-double of the season with 25 points and 11 rebounds. Maten went on to earn 2018 SEC Player of the Year honors from the AP.

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