Athens, Ga. (AP) – Asa Newell spoke with confidence after Georgia 79-68 Victory On Vanderbilt on Saturday when he proclaimed: “We are going to dance”.
It has been 10 years that a Georgia player could boast of the Bulldogs NCAA tournament after their last regular season match.
The Bulldogs improved at 20-11 in total and 8-10 in the Southeast Conference with the victory in one of the many games on Saturday involving teams that may have been on the NCAA bubble.
Led by Newell, the first -year -old striker who scored 15 points against Vanderbilt, the hopes of the Bulldogs for their first NCAA tournament offer since 2015 were stimulated by four consecutive victories to close the regular season.
The highest point was a 88-83 Home Victory on N ° 3 in Florida on February 25. The solid finish also included an important 83-67 Victory in TexasAnother team of bubbles on March 1.
Georgia entered the Saturday match with a net note n ° 32 NCAA. It is possible that the Bulldogs could have survived the defeats against Vanderbilt and during their opening match of the dry tournament against Oklahoma on Wednesday evening in Nashville and still made the field of the NCAA.
The objective of the Bulldogs was to delete any doubt. By beating the commodores (20-11, 8-10), which seem to take place for the NCAA terrain, Georgia probably ended its drought of the NCAA for a decade.
“That’s all I will say about it: I guess we are,” said Georgia coach Mike White. “I mean, we are good. We are good. Our league is good. And there will be a lot of teams from our league who does it and who does damage in the NCAA tournament.”
The depth of the dry only adds the challenges of teams such as Georgia and Arkansas to enter the NCAA tournament. Directed by N ° 1 Auburn, the SEC had three teams in the first five and eight in this week AP TOP 25 survey.
Calipari says that pigs are “the most rewarding”
Arkansas (19-12, 8-10) increased its perspectives Buncher n ° 25 Mississippi State 93-92 Saturday in another dry match with the implications of the NCAA bubble.
After the victory, Arkansas coach John Calipari, who led Kentucky to the 2012 National Championship, said this team was special.
“I trained and I had teams overcome stuff, but nothing like it,” said Calipari. “This team was the most rewarding for me personally of any team that I have trained. And we have won national titles and final ovens. We don’t know where it’s going. We don’t know. We hit a good shooting night and we can beat anyone. »»
The deacons of demon bounce back
Wake Forest had lost four of the six games and had seen his hopes of the NCAA fading before the deacons of the demons closed their regular season with an impressive Route 69-43 by Georgia Tech. Wake Forest improved at 21-10, but was only n ° 72 in the last NACA Net ranking.
The deacons of the demon may need to take place in the tournament of the Atlantic coast conference to make the NCAA field.
Bubble team against the bubble team
In a Big Ten match of two bubble teams, Indiana won a 66-60 home victory against Ohio State. The Hoosiers were registered on the ESPN list of Joe Lunardi from “last four in” before the victory of Saturday which placed them at 19-12 in total and 10-10 in the conference. The Ohio State fell to 17-14 and 9-11 in the Big Ten and had appeared on the Lunardi list of the last four counts in the projected NCAA field.
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