ATHENS, Ga. — With one game left in the regular season, the Florida Women’s Basketball Team’s game Sunday against Georgia doesn’t have much in the way of SEC Tournament implications for the Gators as they are fairly well ensconced as the 12 or 13 seed. However, a win over the No. 23/24 Bulldogs (21-8, 7-8) would be another point in Florida’s case for an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.
 
The Gators (17-13, 5-10) have won four of their last six games, including a 74-67 victory Thursday over No. 19/20 Ole Miss. Their two losses during that stretch are to No. 10/10 Oklahoma (81-74) and No. 25/24 Alabama (76-71).
 
Georgia is one of five teams at either 8-7 or 7-8 in conference, all of whom are battling to stay out of the first day of the SEC Tournament when the nine through 16 seeds play. At the moment, the Bulldogs are the 10 seed, and have lost three of their last five games. They began the season unranked, but started receiving votes in national polls in early December before cracking the top 25 in late January.
 
Georgia holds SEC opponents to 41.2 percent shooting from the field (seventh best in the league), and 30.0 percent from three-point range (fifth best), while grabbing the fifth highest percentage of offensive rebounds (.708). Offensively the Bulldogs make 41.9 percent of their field goal attempts in SEC play (eighth best), and 29.4 percent of their three-pointers (11th), while grabbing 25.4 percent of available offensive rebounds (15th).
 
Dani Carnegie is Georgia’s leading scorer on the year averaging 17.8 points per game overall and 18.5 in conference. She connects on 36.8 percent of her shots from beyond the arc on the season, but against SEC opponents she is making just 28.4 percent from distance. Mia Woolfolk (13.3 ppg), Rylie Theuerkauf (11.9) and Trinity Turner (11.1) also average double figures in scoring for the Bulldogs.
 
Florida is 20-65 all-time against the Bulldogs, but has won two of the last three games including a 73-57 victory on January 5 of last year. Ra Shaya Kyle (18 points, 7 of 12 shooting), Liv McGill (15 points, 6 of 12), and Laila Reynolds (13 points, 6 of 11) all scored in double figures for the Gators in last season’s win, and Florida forced Georgia into committing 22 turnovers which they flipped into 27 points.
 
GEORGIA (21-7, 7-8)

A FLORIDA WIN WOULD …

• Improve the Gators’ record to 18-13 overall on the year and 6-10 in the SEC.
• Secure the 12 seed for the Gators in the SEC Tournament. Florida’s first round tournament game would tip at approximately 1:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 4 at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, S.C.
• Improve Florida’s record to 3-8 on the road this season.
• Improve the Gators’ record to 21-65 all-time vs. Georgia, and be the team’s third win over the Bulldogs in the last four meetings between the teams.
• Be Florida’s second consecutive win against a nationally-ranked opponent—74-67 win over Ole Miss on Feb. 26.

POSTSEASON PICTURE

• The 2026 SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament is being held at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, S.C. from March 4-8.
• All 16 teams make the tournament
• The top four seeds have a double bye into the quarterfinals on March 6.
• The five through the eight seeds have a bye into the second round on March 5.
• The nine through 16 seeds play in the first round on March 4 with 9 playing 16, 10 playing 15, 11 playing 14 and 12 playing 13.
• Entering Thursday’s game, Florida is tied for 12th place with Mississippi State (5-10), but the Gators own the tiebreaker against the Bulldogs by virtue of a 71-56 road win on Feb. 19.
• The Gators are one game back of Texas A&M (6-9) in 11th place, but the Aggies beat Florida 74-66 back on Jan. 8.
• Florida is one game ahead of 14th place Missouri (4-11), but the Gators beat the Tigers 89-71 on Jan. 18

TALE OF THE TAPE

Florida		Georgia
73.6	PPG	74.1
66.1	OPP PPG	61.1
+7.5	SCORING MARGIN	+13.0
45.1	FG %	45.1
40.1	OPP FG%	37.7
28.7	3 FG%	34.0
29.8	OPP 3 FG%	29.6
5.3	3FG/G	6.7
70.0	FT %	72.2
37.8	REBOUNDS/G	37.4
36.1	OPP REBOUNDS/G	34.1
+1.7	REB MARGIN	+3.3
13.3	ASSISTS/G	13.9
16.9	TURNOVER/G	14.4
+0.79	A/TO RATIO	+0.97
9.5	STEALS/G	8.3
3.87	BLOCKS/G	2.90

 
PROJECTED FLORIDA STARTERS

 
GATOR BITES

• Through games of Saturday, Feb. 28, Florida is … 11th in the SEC this season in points per game (73.6) … 10th in scoring defense (66.1) … 12th in scoring margin (+7.53) … sixth in field goal percentage (.451) … 10th in field goal percentage defense (.401) … 14th in three-point field goal percentage (.287) … seventh in three-point field goal percentage defense (.298) … 13th in free throw percentage (.700) … 10th in offensive rebound percentage (.349) … 13th in defensive rebound percentage (.661) … 13th in assists (13.3) … ninth in steals (9.53) … 10th in blocked shots (3.87).
• In SEC games, Florida is tied for ninth in scoring (69.5) … (T) 12th in scoring defense (74.0) …  fifth in field goal percentage (.442) … 11th in field goal percentage defense (.437) … seventh in three-point field goal percentage (.321) … and ninth in three-point field goal percentage defense (.321).
• The Gators have held 19 of 30 opponents below 70 points this season, and nine opponents below 60 points.
• Florida is 34th in the nation in free throws made per game (14.7), and 31st in free throw attempts per game (21.0) through games of Friday, Feb. 27.
• Florida’s NET rating, which helps determine which teams make the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship, is No. 48 through games of Friday, Feb. 27.
• Liv McGill became the 28th player in Florida Women’s Basketball history to score 1,000 points in her career when she connected on a free throw line jumper in the second quarter Jan. 11 at Auburn. She is now in 21st place with 1,250 career points, seven points behind Jennifer George in 20th with 1,257.
• Liv McGill was named to the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Award Mid-Season List along with Kentucky’s Tonie Morgan, NC State’s Zoe Brooks, Nebraska’s Britt Prince, Notre Dame’s Hannah Hidalgo, Oklahoma’s Aaliyah Chavez, South Carolina’s Raven Johnson, TCU’s Olivia Miles, Texas’ Rori Harmon, and UCLA’s Kiki Rice.
• Liv McGill and Me’Arah O’Neal have each earned SEC Player of the Week honors this season.
• Liv McGill became the first player in Gators women’s basketball history to be named a US Basketball Writers Association National Player of the Week on Tuesday, Nov. 11. She averaged 27.7 points, 6.0 rebounds, 7.3 assists, and 5.00 steals while connecting on 40.9 percent of her three-point field goal attempts in Florida’s three wins. She also was named the SEC Player of the Week for her performance during that same stretch of games.
• Liv McGill was named the most outstanding player of the Grand Cayman Classic over Thanksgiving weekend when she averaged 27.0 points, 4.5 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 2.00 steals and 1.00 blocked shots.
• Liv McGill has three games this season of at least 25 points, five rebounds, five assists and five steals. The other 4,500-+ players competing in women’s basketball at the Division I level have 13 games with 25-5-5-5.

PROJECTED GEORGIA STARTERS

	No.	Ht.	Pos.	Class	Hometown / Previous Schools
Trinity Turner	0	5-6	G	So.	Orlando, Fla. /
Savannah Henderson	2	6-3	G	R-Jr.	Orlando, Fla. /
Dani Carnegie	3	5-9	G	So.	Mount Vernon, N.Y. /
Rylie Theuerkauf	14	5-9	G	Jr.	Tenafly, N.J. /
Mia Woolfolk	33	6-3	F	So.	Midlothian, Va. /

 
BULLDOGS QUICK HITS

• Members of the media picked Georgia to finish 12th in the SEC this season in its preseason poll, while the coaches tabbed them to finish 11th.
• Prior to this season, Georgia’s last time being ranked in the top 25 was back in the 2020-21 season when they were ranked as high as 13th.
• The Bulldogs last appearance in the NCAA Tournament was in 2021-22 in Coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson’s first season at the Georgia helm.
• Georgia ranks 31st in the nation in field goal percentage (.451)
• Georgia holds SEC opponents to 41.2 percent shooting from the field (seventh best in the league), and 30.0 percent from three-point range (fifth best), while grabbing the fifth highest percentage of offensive rebounds (.708).
• Offensively the Bulldogs make 41.9 percent of their field goal attempts in SEC play (eighth best), and 29.4 percent of their three-pointers (11th), while grabbing 25.4 percent of available offensive rebounds (15th).

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