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LADY BULLDOG BASKETBALL MILESTONES Two-time NCAA Runner-up (’85, ’96) GAME Five NCAA Final Fours (’83, ’85, ’95, ’96, ’99) 28 NCAA Tournament bids (No. 2 nationally) Seven SEC Championships (’83, ’84, ’86, ’91, ’96, ’97, ’00) Four SEC Tournament Championships (’83, ’84, ’86, ’01) 468 weeks in the AP poll (No. 2 nationally) 32 consecutive winning seasons (No. 4 nationally) 13 WNBA Draft picks in the last 11 years (8 first-rounders) SID Contact: Mike Mobley ([email protected] • 706-540-7486) 17 2011-12 SCHEDULE THE BASICS Overall: 13-3 ◊ SEC: 2-1 Home: 8-0 ◊ Road: 3-1 ◊ Neutral: 2-2 THE MATCHUPS DATE OPPONENT (TV) SCORE/TIP GEORGIA LADY BULLDOGS FLORIDA GATORS 11/11 TCU (CSS) W 83-60 Records: 13-3, 2-1 SEC Records: 11-5, 1-2 SEC 11/15 at Georgia Southern W 68-49 Rankings: No. 19 AP, Rankings: NR AP, 11/17 College of Charleston W 73-48 11/20 Southern Cal W 67-60 No. 16 USA Today/ESPN NR USA Today/ESPN 11/26 & vs. Georgetown L 56-64 Coach: Andy Landers Rankings: Amanda Butler 11/27 & vs. Northeastern W 81-61 786-262 (.750) 33rd at UGA 89-59 (.601) 5th at UF 11/30 S.C. State W 85-48 Date: Thursday, January 12 868-283 (.754) 37th overall 119-81 (.595) 7th overall 12/4 Georgia Tech (CSS) W 75-68 12/6 at Mercer W 80-43 Tipoff: 7:00 p.m. 12/19 % vs. Gonzaga L 68-71 Location: Athens, Ga. MOST RECENT STARTERS 12/20 % vs. Montana State W 63-49 No. Name PPG RPG No. Name PPG RPG 12/22 Appalachian State (CSS) W 81-37 Arena: Stegeman Coliseum (10,523) 12/28 Furman W 83-58 Video: None 10 Jasmine James 10.8 5.1 G 10 Jaterra Bonds 9.6 2.5 1/1 * Arkansas W 67-57 Radio: Georgia Bulldog Radio Network (5-9; Jr.; Memphis, Tenn.) (5-7; Soph; Gainesville, Fla.) 1/5 * at Tennessee (CSS) L 51-80 1/8 * at Auburn (CSS) W 70-45 (AM 960 The Ref in Athens and 1 Khaalidah Miller 12.8 4.4 G 33 Jordan Jones 12.6 3.4 1/12 * Florida 7:00 103.7 FM from Gainesville) (5-9; Soph.; Atlanta, Ga.) (5-9; R-Sr.; Suwanee, Ga.) 1/15 * at Mississippi State 3:00 Jeff Dantzler – play-by-play 11 Meredith Mitchell 8.4 4.9 G 12 Deana Allen 8.2 6.1 1/19 * Kentucky 7:00 Series: UGA leads 45-13 overall; (6-1; Sr.; Midfield, Ala.) (5-9; Sr.; Houma, La.) 1/22 * at Ole Miss (CSS) 3:00 however, UF won the last 1/26 * at Vanderbilt (CSS) 9:00 meeting 74-71 on Feb. 27, 1/29 * Tennessee (ESPN2) 5:00 3 Anne Marie Armstrong 10.4 5.6 F 32 Jennifer George 14.0 10.1 2/2 * Mississippi State 7:00 2011 in Gainesville (6-3; Jr.; Norcross, Ga.) (6-0; Jr.; Orlando, Fla.) 2/5 * at Alabama (SPSO) 3:00 UGA leads 24-3 in Athens, 12 Jasmine Hassell 14.0 5.8 F • C 13 Azania Stewart 5.3 5.6 2/12 * Vanderbilt (SECN) 2:00 including a 70-64 win on Jan. 2/16 * at South Carolina (SPSO) 7:00 16, 2011 (6-2; Jr.; Lebanon, Tenn.) (6-4; Sr.; Wood Grove, England) 2/19 * at Florida (ESPNU) 3:30 2/23 * Ole Miss 7:00 2/26 * LSU (ESPN2) 5:00 UGA HEADLINES OFF THE BENCH 3/1-4 SEC Tournament (Nashville, Tenn.) Page 2 – Series history with Florida 31 Erika Ford 5.9 3.6 G 3 Lanita Bartley 8.6 4.9 &-Lady Rebel Round-up (Las Vegas) Page 3 – Peach State products on display (5-9; Fr.; Alpharetta, Ga.) (5-6; Sr.; Jacksonvile, Fla.) %-Vegas Holiday Hoops Classic (Las Vegas) *-Denotes SEC game ◊ All times EASTERN Page 4 – A balanced attack: Takes I & II 23 Tamika Willis 4.5 4.1 F 14 Ndidi Madu 3.4 4.0 Page 5 – Georgia hitting its “magic number” (6-2; Jr.; College Park, Ga.) (6-1; R-Sr.; Antioch, Tenn.) Page 5 – Former teammates face off Page 6 – The most coaching wins...ever! 15 Krista Donald 4.8 3.0 F • G 23 Brittany Shine 4.1 0.8 Page 6 – The book on boarding: Chapter 1 (5-11; Fr.; Lake, Miss. ) (5-10; Soph.; Sacramento, Calif) Page 7 – Freshman starters sorority grows 4 Danielle Bennett 2.3 0.7 G • F 31 Lily Svete 1.9 1.1 www.facebook.com/UGAWomensBasketball Page 8 – UGA signs five standouts (5-10; Jr.; Springfield, Mo.) (6-2; R-Soph.; Granger, Ind.) @UGACoachLanders Page 8 – Longer line produced record 3s PAGE 2 • LADy BULLDOGS vS. Florida GAME Notes Georgia hosts most common foe FYI, Tennessee is Georgia’s second TALE OF THE (STAT) TAPE Georgia returns to Stegeman Colise- most-common opponent. Last Thurs- KEEPING AN EYE ON... Statistic UGA UF um to host Florida on Thursday evening day’s game was the 57th between the Entering the Florida game: Points Per Game 71.9 69.3 following a two-game road swing. Lady Bulldogs and the Lady Volunteers. Jasmine James... Opp. Point Per Game 56.1 59.9 The matchup will be the 59th all- Georgia is currently 13-3 overall • 53 points shy of becoming UGA’s 32nd Scoring Margin +15.8 +9.4 time between the Lady Bulldogs and and 2-1 in SEC play following Sun- 1,000-point career scorer Field Goal Pct. .433 .408 the Gators, the most of any Georgia day’s 70-45 victory at Auburn. Andy Landers is... Opp. Field Goal Pct. .373 .385 opponent. Jasmine Hassell leads Georgia 3-Point Pct. .330 .291 • 2 games shy of his 1050th contest as The Lady Bulldogs possess a 45-13 averaging 14.0 points, while Khaalidah UGA’s head coach 3-Pointers Per Game 5.2 4.8 Miller (12.8), Jasmine James (10.8) Opp. 3-Point Pct. .298 .279 advantage in the all-time series. • 14 wins shy of his 800th victory at UGA Free Throw Pct. .667 .669 The Gators’ last road win came on and Anne Marie Armstrong (10.4) also Rebounds Per Game 40.7 43.8 Jan. 18, 2004. Interestingly, that 2003- contribute double-digit averages. Inter- Series history with Florida Opp. Rebound Per Game 36.1 36.6 04 campaign is the only season when estingly, Meredith Mitchell, the lone Georgia is 45-13 all-time against Rebound Margin +4.6 +7.1 Florida swept both ends of the regular- Georgia starter not averaging double Florida and 24-3 versus the Gators at Assists Per Game 13.4 13.3 season home-and-home series contest- figures (8.4 ppg), is the only Lady Stegeman Coliseum. Turnovers Per Game 15.3 17.3 ed every year since 1994-95. However, Bulldog to score in double digits in Three of the Gators’ wins came Assist-to-Turnover Ratio 0.88 0.77 the Lady Bulldogs bounced back and each of the first three SEC games. prior to Andy Landers’ tenure as Steals Per Game 11.4 9.9 defeated the Gators, 76-72, in the quar- Florida fell to 11-5 overall and 1-2 in head coach, making him an even Blocks Per Game 2.4 4.6 terfinals of the 2004 SEC Tournament league action with Sunday’s 49-44 set- more impressive 45-10 overall and en route to advancing to the champion- back to South Carolina. Both of the Ga- 24-2 at home versus Florida. ship game. tors’ conference “L’s” came to teams In the most recent meeting in Athens UPCOMING PROMOTIONS: The Lady Bulldogs and Gators have ranked by the AP this week – No. 9 Jan. 16 last season, the Lady Bulldogs Jan. 29 vs. Tennessee split the last six matchups, with the Kentucky and No. 24 South Carolina rallied from a 16-point second-half defi- • First 500 UGA students receive a home team holding serve each time. – by a combined eight points. cit to secure a thrilling 70-64 win. The “Beat Tennessee” t-shirt, pizza and Prior to that, Georgia won nine straight Jennifer George’s double-double of Gators led by 16 on three occasions drinks over Florida from the aforementioned 14.0 ppg and 10.1 rpg leads a bal- after intermission, lastly at 49-33 with 2004 SEC Tournament game through a anced attack, which features five Ga- 14:21 remaining. Valentine’s Day date in 2008. tors averaging 8.2 ppg or more. Florida led 56-44 when Georgia used a 13-0 run to gain its first lead since 2-0. The Gators tied the game at 60-60 2011-12 LADY BULLDOG BASKETBALL ROSTER before back-to-back threes from Mer- NO. NAME POS. Ht. Cl. HOMETOWN NOTEWORTHY... edith Mitchell and Jasmine James put the Lady Bulldogs up by six 1:39 later. 1 Khaalidah Miller G 5-9 So. Atlanta, Ga. More than half of FGs (38-of-74) are threes Florida cut it back to three on a lay-up 2 Ebony Jones F 6-2 Jr. Cedar Hill, Texas Missed all but Mercer game with injuries for Jaterra Bonds, but late free throws 3 Anne Marie Armstrong G/F 6-3 Jr. Norcross, Ga. Ranked among SEC leaders in seven categories pushed it safely back to six. James led Georgia with 18 points, 4 Danielle Bennett G 5-10 Jr.