The Starting 5

• Georgia completes a hectic opening to the 2025-26 season on Sunday when the Bulldogs host Morehead State in their third contest in a seven-day span.
• The Bulldogs defeated Maryland Eastern Shore, 94-29, on Wednesday. The 65-point win provided the largest margin of victory ever in Stegeman Coliseum and tied the ninth-largest in program history.
• Georgia is riding a 29-game home winning streak against non-conference opponents at Stegeman Coliseum and is 43-13 (.768) at home under Mike White.
• The Bulldogs’ 104 points against Bellarmine in the season opener were their most under Mike White and Georgia’s highest offensive output since scoring 110 versus Savannah State on Nov. 9, 2018.
• Mike White captured the 300th victory of his head coaching career against Bellarmine. He won 101 in four seasons at Louisiana Tech and 142 in seven campaigns at Gainesville before securing the final 57 Ws to reach 300 at Georgia.

The Opening Tip

Georgia wraps up a busy opening week to the 2025-26 campaign on Sunday when it hosts Morehead State in a matinee matchup at 2:00 p.m.

The Bulldogs provided impressive results in their first two outings of the season.

Georgia bested Bellarmine 104-59 in the season opener last Monday – UGA’s biggest margin of victory to start a season since defeating Seattle, 103-48, on Nov. 9, 1986.

The Bulldogs followed that with a 65-point, 94-29 thumping of Maryland Eastern Shore on Wednesday – the largest margin of victory ever in 63 seasons at Stegeman Coliseum and the ninth-largest win gap in program history.

Georgia has displayed considerable depth in those contests. Eleven Bulldogs logged double-digit minutes and 11 Bulldogs scored in each of the first two outings. Blue Cain paces a quartet of double-digit scorers for Georgia at 15.5 ppg, followed by Jake Wilkins at 14.0 ppg, Jeremiah Wilkinson at 13.5 ppg and Kanon Catchings at 11.0 ppg.

Bulldogs Take On Third First-time Foe To Start 2025-26

Sunday’s date with Morehead State represents the third opponent Georgia will face for the first time ever to christen the 2025-26 season. Matchups with Bellarmine and Maryland Eastern Shore on Monday and Wednesday, respectively, also were initial meetings.

Georgia is 5-0 all-time against the programs currently competing along with Morehead State in the OVC – 3-0 vs. Tennessee Tech and 1-0 vs. both Little Rock and Tennessee State.

Following three first dates, the Bulldogs will take on an extremely common foe in their next outing – Georgia Tech. Friday’s game against the Yellow Jackets will be the 201st all-time between the intrastate arch rivals.

Scouting The Eagles

Morehead State is 1-1 to date, winning its opener against Midway before falling at Wake Forest on Friday night. Georgia is the second of a challending five-day, three-game road trip for the Eagles. MSU will venture to Clemson to face the Tigers on Tuesday.

George Marshall leads the Eagles on the offensive end at 15.5 ppg, with additional double-digit averagees from Josiah LeGree at 11.5 ppg, Jon Carroll at 11.0 ppg and Anouar Mellouck at 10.0 ppg.

Last Time Out

Blue Cain and Jake Wilkins scored 16 points apiece on Wednesday to help lead Georgia to a 94-29 victory over the Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks at Stegeman Coliseum. Jeremiah Wilkinson collected six steals in the contest, one shy of the Bulldogs’ single-game record.

The 65-point decision marked the largest margin of victory at Stegeman Coliseum, surpassing 60-point wins over Southern in 2006, Whittier College in 1979 and Baptist College (now Charleston Southern) in 1978.

With 12:08 left in the first half, Wilkins’ dunk electrified Stegeman as the freshman was the recipient of a lob pass from Kanon Catchings. Wilkins then blocked a shot at the other end, before a pair of Catchings dunks gave the Bulldogs a 20-6 lead. The Bulldogs began the second half with a 17-3 spurt, taking a commanding 40-point lead on Smurf Millender’s 3-pointer at the 13:59 mark.

“Good win, appreciate the fans that came out,” head coach Mike White said. “We have a lot of stuff we’ve got to get better at. I thought we did a pretty good job preparing. Our guys have respect for this opponent, them having accomplished what they did the other night, forcing overtime at Georgia Tech and having a chance to win that game. They run good stuff, bring a lot of physicality, and have days they can score. The biggest positive from the game for us is the fact that we started off shooting the basketball so poorly. The fact that we kept flying around, forcing turnovers and applying pressure, and just playing really hard with shots not going in, is a pretty good sign.”

Bulldogs Better Biggest Victory Margin Ever AT Stegeman

Georgia’s 65-point, 94-29 win over Maryland Eastern Shore represented the Bulldogs’ largest margin of victory ever in 63 seasons of play at Stegeman Coliseum and also equaled the ninth-biggest mark in 121 seasons of competition.

The previous record for biggest win gap in the arena was a trio of 60-point decisions. Georgia defeated Southern, 97-37, on Nov. 10, 2006; topped Whittier, 122-62, on Dec. 3, 1979; and beat Baptist College (now Charleston Southern), 122-62, on Dec. 30, 1978.

Overall, the Bulldogs tied the No. 9 effort for margin of victory, matching wins over Fort McPherson (80-15 on Dec. 18, 1926) and Mercer (74-9, on Feb. 9, 1918).

Mark down November 5, 2025 as the first of what we hope becomes numerous appearances for the Bulldogs on SportsCenter’s top-10 plays this season.

Jake Wilkins’ breakaway, windmill dunk capped off the scoring in Georgia’s 94-29 win over Maryland Eastern Shore and was tabbed as the No. 7 effort of the day. The highlight was matched up on the highlights with a similar effort by Dominique Wilkins from an NBA Slam Dunk contest, proving Jake was simply tapping into some innate dunking skills with his rim-rattling execution.

Wilkins actually had three show-stopping slams during the contest, skying over a UMES defender to snatch a pass from just past half-court by Kanon Catchings to finish an alley-oop and gladly accepting a pass off the backboard from Jeremiah Wilkinson for a monster finish.

Georgia’s 104-point outburst against Bellarmine in the season opener represented third time the Bulldogs have reached the 100-point mark during Mike White‘s tenure in Athens and their most points during that span.

Last season, Georgia hit the century mark twice, defeating Jacksonville 102-56 on Nov. 30 and beating Buffalo 100-49 on Dec. 19.

The 104 points were the most by the Bulldogs since defeating Savannah State, 110-78, in the 2018-29 season opener on Nov. 9, 2018.

Georgia has now reached 100 points 58 times all time in 121 seasons of basketball.

BK Has It His Way Against Bellarmine

Redshirt junior Brandon Klatsky stole the show at the end of Georgia’s 104-59 decision over Bellarmine.

Klatsky checked in with 1:08 left in the contest and before the final buzzer scored five points, recorded two steals and dribbled out the clock to wave off a potential third bucket on the night.

Klatsky’s first make – a 3-pointer from the left corner – provided both his first bucket as a Bulldogs and pushed Georgia to the 100-point mark on the scoreboard.

After scoring five points in 68 seconds, Klatsky undoubtedly led the nation in scoring…per 40 minutes. The Colts Neck, N.J. native sported a gaudy mark of – are you ready – 176.5 points per 40. After playing 1:48 against Maryland Eastern Shore, Klatsky’s per 40 performance dipping to a paltry 68.2 ppg.

Preseason Analytics Like the Bulldogs

Coming off its best season in a decade, Georgia began the 2025-26 campaign with its highest projections ever by two popular college basketball metrics.

The Bulldogs were listed at No. 32 according to BartTorvik.com and No. 44 by KenPom.com in preseason ledgers as outlined below.

In Torvik projections dating back to 2008, Georgia’s previous preseason high was No. 38 last November.

In KenPom’s predictions, which began in 2002, the Bulldogs’ best preseason listing was No. 27 in 2014-15.

Another metric, EvanMiya.com, listed Georgia at No. 40 in its preseason projections. That site also ranks individual players and believed UGA had one of the deepest rosters in the SEC. Nine Bulldogs were ranked in EvanMiya’s top 551 players in the country. That tied Vanderbilt for the most players in that range. Trailing the Dogs and the Dores were Arkansas and Kentucky with eight; Florida, Oklahoma and Texas with seven; Mississippi State, Missouri and Texas A&M with six; and Alabama and LSU with five.

Recent Metrics

 

Top-10 AP Opponents
	Torvik		KenPom
Season	Pre	Post	Pre	Post
2019-20	58	88	55	95
2020-21	104	93	95	95
2021-22	237	193	159	219
2022-23	126	159	93	154
2023-24	88	73	57	84
2024-25	38	34	65	38
2025-26	32		44

 

A “Stegtacular” Home Court Advantage

Georgia’s home court advantage? It’s real and it’s Stegtacular.

The Bulldogs have compiled a 43-13 home mark under Mike White and are a perfect 29-0 versus non-conference competition in Stegeman over his three-plus seasons at UGA.

White’s success at Stegeman is not confined to his UGA tenure. He was 7-1 in Athens as a visiting head coach, leading Louisiana Tech to a 2014 NIT victory at Stegeman and compiling a 6-1 mark at Florida from 2015-22. That makes White is a combined 50-14 (.781) in Stegeman

The Bulldogs were 15-3 in Athens last season, matching the program record for home wins in a single season. Georgia also won 15 home games during the 2013-14 and 2015-16 campaigns; however, those tallies include an NIT victory.  

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