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Jun. 11, 2013

Georgia scored well conference-wide in the latest NCAA Academic Progress Rates released Tuesday. The men’s basketball team’s 990 is second among current Southeastern Conference schools behind only Alabama (995). The football program tied for fourth among current SEC schools with Florida with a score of 968. Missouri, Alabama and Vanderbilt were 1-2-3. Baseball was one [...] - Full Story

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Jun. 7, 2013

Georgia’s Jonas Hayes more than tripled his annual salary with his promotion to assistant men’s basketball coach. - Full Story

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Jun. 6, 2013

Byron Samuels, a veteran of the collegiate ranks whose career includes three head coaching posts, has been named the Georgia men’s basketball team’s operations coordinator, according to an announcement Thursday by head coach Mark Fox. - Full Story

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Jun. 3, 2013

Mark Fox found a familiar face to fill the open spot on his staff. - Full Story

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May. 15, 2013

Marcus Thornton is gearing up to be back on the court next season for the Georgia basketball team after receiving a medical redshirt following December knee surgery. The forward is still rehabbing “moreso than anything,” he said last week,” and is on the floor “a little bit. They can’t keep me off too much. I’m [...] - Full Story

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May. 14, 2013

Thirteen of Georgia’s 20 sports teams improved or maintained their showing in the most recent NCAA Academic Progress Rate report. Men’s basketball made the biggest gain, compiling a four-year average of 990 out of 1,000 in the measure of eligibility, retention and graduation of scholarship athletes. The NCAA is likely to release scores in early [...] - Full Story

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May. 10, 2013

Mark Fox officially has a vacancy on his Georgia men’s basketball coaching staff. Assistant coach Kwanza Johnson has resigned to take a similar position at TCU, Georgia confirmed Friday morning. The move had been widely expected for nearly three weeks, so Fox has had plenty of time to mull how he would fill his first [...] - Full Story

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May. 8, 2013

Friday morning update: Johnson to TCU now official. ATLANTA–Kwanza Johnson remains on Mark Fox’s Georgia basketball staff. How long remains to be seen. The assistant coach still could be headed to TCU. Two and a half weeks after it appeared imminent that Johnson was leaving to work under Trent Johnson at TCU, it hasn’t happened [...] - Full Story

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May. 7, 2013

Georgia guards Shacobia Barbee and Tiaria Griffin have been invited to USA Basketball’s Under-19 World Championship Team trials, the Lady Bulldogs announced on Tuesday. - Full Story

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Apr. 21, 2013

The first change on Mark Fox’s coaching staff appears to be coming as he heads into his fifth season with the Georgia men’s basketball team. - Full Story

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The Georgia men’s basketball team on Sunday landed its second commitment during the late signing period when junior-college forward Cameron Forte told coach Mark Fox he picked the Bulldogs. The 6-foot-7, 210-pound Forte committed after taking a visit this weekend to Washington State. He said he had visits planned with Colorado State, Pittsburgh and Minnesota [...] - Full Story

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Apr. 17, 2013

The day after Georgia announced that star guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was entering the NBA draft, it offered a scholarship Tuesday to an under-the-radar player from Mississippi. Kenny Paul Geno, a 6-foot-6, 195-pound small forward from Booneville, Miss., told Georgia coach Mark Fox and assistant Philip Pearson this morning that he wanted to be a Bulldog. [...] - Full Story

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Apr. 16, 2013

When they were younger, Jasmine Hassell, Jasmine James and Anne Marie Armstrong all wanted to play in the WNBA. - Full Story

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Apr. 15, 2013

Three Georgia players were selected in Monday night’s WNBA draft. Jasmine Hassell was selected 21st overall and in the second round by the Indiana Fever; Jasmine James was selected 30th overall and in the third round; and Anne Marie Armstrong was selected by the Atlanta Dream 31st overall and in the third round. Hassell led [...] - Full Story

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The Georgia men’s basketball team’s hopes of contending for an NCAA tournament berth next season took a hit on Monday when its star player revealed he’s giving up his final two years of eligibility and declaring for the NBA draft. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope — who came to be known simply as KCP with the Bulldogs — [...] - Full Story

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Kenatvious Caldwell-Pope “really wrestled” with the decision to leave Georgia and declare for the NBA draft, coach Mark Fox said today. He didn’t make the jump based on a whim. Fox said “in the ballpark” of 25 NBA teams were consulted to gauge Caldwell-Pope’s NBA draft stock. In addition, Caldwell-Pope got an official NBA evaluation [...] - Full Story

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Apr. 4, 2013

Georgia’ 1983 Final Four will be a part of the events surrounding the big weekend upcoming in Atlanta. Coach Hugh Durham and most the 1983 Bulldogs team are expected to be a part of a basketball game pitting the Wounded Warrior Amputees vs. Atlanta’s All Stars. The game is Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. [...] - Full Story

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Apr. 2, 2013

When Georgia’s Class of 2013 arrived on campus four years ago, the Lady Bulldogs had just completed one of its shakiest seasons in Andy Landers’ tenure. - Full Story

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SPOKANE, Wash. – Georgia seniors Jasmine Hassell and Jasmine James arrived at the interview room of the Spokane Arena with reddened, tear-filled eyes that told the story of their final college basketball game more than any stats sheet ever could. Only minutes removed from a 65-62 overtime loss to California, Hassell and James tried to [...] - Full Story

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SPOKANE, Wash. – Georgia seniors Jasmine Hassell and Jasmine James arrived at the interview room of the Spokane Arena with reddened, tear-filled eyes that told the story of their final college basketball game more than any stats sheet ever could. - Full Story

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Mar. 31, 2013

Georgia had plenty of reason to panic when it looked up at an eight-point deficit in the second half of its Sweet 16 game against top-seeded Stanford late Saturday. - Full Story

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SPOKANE, Wash. – The Georgia Lady Bulldogs have spent so much time in this Eastern Washington community, coach Andy Landers is starting to wonder if he might lose a few players before the team returns to Athens. “We have taken up residency,” Landers deadpanned the other day. “A couple of them have looked at apartments.” [...] - Full Story

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Mar. 29, 2013

The Georgia women’s basketball team has done its best to make Spokane, Wash., its home away from home this week. - Full Story

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Mar. 24, 2013

When the NCAA tournament moves past its opening phase, defense provides the difference between advancing and booking a flight home. - Full Story

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Mar. 23, 2013

SPOKANE, Wash. — Georgia relied on its defense throughout the regular season. No reason for the first game of the NCAA tournament to be any different. - Full Story

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