Texas Longhorns (17-9, 8-5 SEC) at Georgia Bulldogs (18-8, 6-7 SEC)<\/p>\n
Athens, Georgia; Saturday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Texas visits Georgia after Dailyn Swain scored 21 points in Texas\u2019 88-85 win over the LSU Tigers.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs have gone 11-4 at home. Georgia averages 90.2 points while outscoring opponents by 11.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns are 8-5 in SEC play. Texas is seventh in the SEC scoring 85.3 points per game and is shooting 49.5%.<\/p>\n
Georgia averages 90.2 points, 15.4 more per game than the 74.8 Texas allows. Texas has shot at a 49.5% clip from the field this season, 6.5 percentage points greater than the 43.0% shooting opponents of Georgia have averaged.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time in conference play this season. Texas won the last matchup 87-67 on Jan. 24. Swain scored 26 points to help lead the Longhorns to the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Marcus Millender is averaging 12.1 points and 3.8 assists for the Bulldogs. Jeremiah Wilkinson is averaging 14.3 points and 1.9 rebounds while shooting 38.7% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Swain is scoring 17.7 points per game and averaging 7.4 rebounds for the Longhorns. Matas Vokietaitis is averaging 16.6 points and 8.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Bulldogs: 4-6, averaging 80.1 points, 31.0 rebounds, 13.3 assists, 7.4 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 43.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Longhorns: 7-3, averaging 81.4 points, 32.3 rebounds, 11.5 assists, 5.5 steals and 2.2 blocks per game while shooting 50.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.3 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Longhorns (17-9, 8-5 SEC) at Georgia Bulldogs (18-8, 6-7 SEC) Athens, Georgia; Saturday, 3:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,416,49066,48619,16616,69795,69794,4862,154,27,29,537,28,1760],"class_list":{"0":"post-172734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-college-sports","10":"tag-data-skrive","11":"tag-ga-state-wire","12":"tag-georgia","13":"tag-jeremiah-wilkinson","14":"tag-marcus-millender","15":"tag-mens-college-basketball","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-texas-headlines","19":"tag-texas-longhorns","20":"tag-texas-news","21":"tag-tx-state-wire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}