t t LEADERS GEORGIA: 3-0 VS. JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY: 3-1 LEADERS POINTS: WHEELER 21 POINTS: WOOD 18 BOARDS: CAMARA 7 BOARDS: ARNOLD 7 ASSISTS: WHEELER 10 ASSISTS: 2 PLAYERS 2 BLOCKS: 3 PLAYERS 1 BLOCKS: 2 PLAYERS 1 STEALS: KIER 4 98 65 STEALS: 2 PLAYERS 3 GEORGIA POST GAME NOTES & QUOTES • FRIDAY DECEMBER 4, 2020

t POSTGAME NOTES • Georgia holds a perfect 10-0 record all-time versus Jacksonville, including seven victories in Athens. • The Bulldogs have now scored 90 or more points 12 times in Tom Crean’s 67 games as their head coach. Georgia scored 90 or more points 12 times in the 393 games prior to Crean’s arrival, a span of 11-plus seasons. • Sophomore Sahvir Wheeler had his third double-double game this season with 21 points and 10 assists. The last time a Georgia player did that was Nicolas Claxton against Oakland, Georgia Tech, and UMASS, two seasons ago. • Graduate transfer Justin Kier was perfect in the first half after his first start as a Bulldog; with a 100 percent percentage going 3-3 and 100 percent 3-point percentage 1-1. • Sophomore Toumani Camara tied his career high points in his second double-digit game of the season and fifth of his career. • Georgia leads the SEC in assists and Wheeler showed why tonight. No one else in the SEC has had a 10 plus game this season, and he now has three this season in as many games. • Georgia outmatched Jacksonville in the game in all categories. Total rebounds JU: 33/ UGA: 48, defensive rebounds JU: 23/ UGA: 32, and offensive rebounds JU: 10/ UGA: 16. Georgia is first in the SEC in defensive rebound percentage and second in offensive rebound percentage. • The defensive play in tonight’s game was alive with 15 steals for Georgia. This is the most by the Bulldogs under Crean’s tenure as the head coach. • Sahvir Wheeler had his third double-figure scoring output of the season and 14th of his career. • P.J. Horne had his second double-digit points performance of the season and the 16th of his career. • Toumani Camara posted his second double-figure scoring game of the season and 10th of his career. • Tye Fagan recorded his second double-digit scoring output of the season and fifth of his career. • Justin Kier notched his first double-figure point contest as a Bulldog and the 52ns of his career. • Christian Brown scored a career-high 14 points and recorded his second double-figure game as a Bulldog.

t POSTGAME QUOTES GEORGIA HEAD COACH TOM CREAN Opening Statement... “To finish this game off with three games in a week and knowing that we had gone the way we had the week before, I was worried about the cumulative effect. We tried to tone our practices down time wise, but you still have to prepare. you still have to play, and I thought our guys tonight overcame that wall in the second half and played outstanding. To get six guys in double figures is huge. That’s how we want to play here. I don’t know if we’re going to get six guys in double figures every night, but the more we can, the more we can get four, five, that’s huge for us because that’s the way we’re built. The keys to the game were going to be to defend the three, and we held them to 4-23 and to win the rebound game, and we beat them by 15. Something that we have not done here ever, we had 67 deflections, which is a monster thing to us. The stat sheet said that Sahvir [Wheeler] had a double-double. He had a triple-double because he had 10 deflections. Toumani had 14 deflections again for the second game in a row. Those are things that are tremendously important to us. 15 steals is great, but the deflections, drawing charges, getting hands on loose balls, tips, those are huge for us because we’re not a big team, and we’re going to walk in with a size disadvantage many nights right now, but we can’t walk in with a hustle disadvantage, and we can’t walk in with an activity disadvantage. There was a lot of really good basketball from a lot of guys. I thought a lot of guys got better inside the game. Sahvir is just scratching the service. He’s passing the ball extremely well. He’s scoring. When that jumper comes and as we get him off the ball more and can get it back to him, it’s only going to get better. To know that we didn’t get the greatest game from Andrew Garcia because of fouls, and to still get six guys in double figures, that’s a good sign for us. We were very concerned for this game. They are a tremendous shooting team. They’re big. They’re well coached. They’re mobile. I’m really proud of the way that we competed in the first half and the way that we took charge in the second half.”

On Sahvir Wheeler’s speed and performance… “I don’t know the speed, I know he is moving, and he’s got some changing gears. He came in a very good layup maker and there’s no doubt about it. We feel that he and Justin [Kier] should be the best layup makers, and Tye Fagan’s in that poll too, as in the best layup makers that we play against that are in this league. Sometimes we miss because of context, sometimes we miss because we don’t use the board. You know, Justin had one, we don’t finger roll. He should’ve dunked it or used the glass; you know we’d like to have some of those back. But, Sahvir has been taught very well by his father and his coaches before he ever got here. We just try to expand on it and also at the same time be able to score with either hand around the rim. We try to spend a lot of time on layups and we’re going to continue to spend even more because that’s how we have to win because we are trying to get a lot of cuts.”

GEORGIA SOPHOMORE SAHVIR WHEELER POSTGAME QUOTES On his third-straight 10 assist game, and how it is helping the team early on… “I didn’t know it was three times in a row until after the game, but I think a big part of that is a product of our offense, of Coach Crean constantly preaching pace, making the next play, the open guy gets the ball and trusting your teammates. We’ve all put in the same amount of work over the year and you can see some of the players growing in front of our eyes like Toumani [Camara], Tye Fagan, those guys are playing at a really high level. We had PJ [Horn] making shots today and even Christian Brown, who had a big-time game today. We saw some really good stuff out of him. Those 10 assists, those back-to-back-to-back double double games are all a credit to them. I’m the point guard, and I’m the one who gets it running, but those are the guys who finish the plays, so they deserve as much credit as I do.”

On if he made it a point to get more involved offensively this season… “I just made it a point to get better, to be in the gym every day during quarantine, and the results are going to show and that’s what it’s been so far. I don’t think I’ve made it a point to be more involved in our offense, but I am making a point to try and make every play, whether that’s making a play for my teammates or myself and just make the right play every possession. As of right now, it’s going well having that balance of scoring and making guys better with my teammates making shots as well.”

On how he is able to make shots at the rim at such high speeds… “As crazy as it sounds, I don’t really practice layups going as fast as I can go. I practice muscle memory like how it feels when I’m at a certain angle of a layup. I just take all different kinds of layups going in slow motion so that my body knows how to react when a certain situation comes. I wouldn’t say it’s a lot of practice, but I don’t go too fast all the time, I try to slow it down just so I can feel every movement. I feel what it’s like for it to go in so I know what to do and when I miss it, I know what not to do.”

GEORGIA GRADUATE TRANSFER JUSTIN KIER On how it is playing next to Sahvir Wheeler… “It’s good, he makes the game really easy as you guys can see. The pace he plays with has allowed me to play faster as well and I’m learning from him. I’m learning from him as an older guy coming in how this program plays. I learn by his speed and I learn by his decision making where I can be and where I can educate our other guys on where they need to be on the floor.” On what he attributes the team’s recent chemistry to... “We have been here since the summer and the guys have gelled really well. We’ve played against each other for so long now and now that we’re playing against different people, we’re finally getting it. I don’t think we’re there yet; I think we can get a lot better, but it’s always good to come out 3-0. Our coaching staff has done a great job of getting us prepared for these games and everyone is starting to get a piece of their role. We’re still figuring some stuff out and everybody needs to take it up a notch so we can be even better than we are right now. We have an exciting future for sure.”