t t LEADERS GEORGIA: 4-0 VS. MONTANA 0-4 LEADERS POINTS: CAMARA 15 POINTS: OWENS 17 BOARDS: CAMARA 17 BOARDS: STEADMAN 8 ASSISTS: WHEELER 5 ASSISTS: PARKER 5 BLOCKS: GARCIA 2 BLOCKS: STEADMAN 3 STEALS: CAMARA 3 63 50 STEALS: WHITNEY 2 GEORGIA POST GAME NOTES & QUOTES • TUESDAY DECEMBER 8, 2020

t POSTGAME NOTES • Tonight was the first meeting between Georgia and Montana; and just the second time the Bulldogs have faced a Big Sky Conference team. • Sophomore Toumani Camara had a career night on the boards, grabbing a personal-best 17 rebounds on the way to his first career dou- ble-double. Camara also led the Bulldogs in scoring with 15 points on 7-for-13 shooting. This makes him the first Georgia player with 15+ points, 15+ rebounds, and 3+ steals since Jumaine Jones on Mar. 20, 2010 versus Penn State. • Camara is now the third different Bulldog with at least one double-double this season (Wheeler & Fagan), when there were only two differ- ent players last season who reached that achievement (Edwards & Hammonds). • Graduate transfer Andrew Garcia is shooting 66.7 percent from the field in his first four gaames wearing the Red and Black. At Stony Brook, Garcia only shot for 45.4 percent in his first three seasons with the Seawolves. • Georgia outrebounded Montana in all three facets. M: 30/ UGA:49, defensive rebounds M: 27/ UGA: 31, and offensive rebounds M: 3/ UGA: 18. With 17 rebounds individually Camara is the first Georgia player with 17 rebounds since Trey Thompkins versus Alabama on Feb. 20, 2010. • Graduate transfer Justin Kier scored his most points as a Bulldog tonight with 12. Keir also tied his season high of rebounds with 6 boards. • Sophomore Sahvir Wheeler entered into tonight’s game ranked with the SEC’s highest number of assists at 32 and averaging 10.67 a game. Wheeler now adds five more assists to that tally after playing the Griz. • Toumani Camara tied his career of steals with three in his dominant performance against the Griz. • Andrew Garcia had his most rebounds repping the Red and Black with five. He also tied his career high blocks with two. • All three of Georgia’s graduate transfers scored in double figures for the Bulldogs. P.J. Horne did so for the third time this season and 17th time in his career. Justin Kier had his second double-digit outing of the season and 53rd of his career. Andrew Garcia posted his second double-figure performance this season and 42nd of his career.

t POSTGAME QUOTES GEORGIA HEAD COACH TOM CREAN On tonight’s performance against Montana... “We were fortunate. We really were because we had guys that showed up like they were 3-0, rather than trying to get on a one-game winning streak. It’s a whole different mindset. When you walk in and you’re 3-0 and you think you can just arrive and now I’m going to play the way I want to play, well you don’t play very well. We had some guys that didn’t play very well tonight. But we had some that played outstanding, led by Toumani Camara. He came out in the attack, was a plus-11 in the game—he had 15 points and 17 rebounds and 16 deflections. He came in with the right mindset. Again, it’s a process and it’s important for our fans to understand this too. Everybody’s in a different role on this team right now. There’s no lottery pick sitting in that room right now that’s going to 1-2-or-3 in the draft. That’s not where we’re at. So where we have to be as a collective mindset as a group that’s together in everything they do. And tonight, our spirit defensively was good. Our attitude and determination on the glass was good, but we did not move without the ball and move the ball the way we needed to, and we had way too many sad looks when we weren’t making shots. We’ve just got to grow through it because we’re not good enough to play that way. We’re fortunate with the win and I think it’s a great lesson of what happens. We won the game, but to score only 63 points is a view of our lack of activity.” On what the team can improve moving forward... “Hopefully, it’s a learning lesson. We’re not built to not be really good together. We have to be good together, and when we are, then we’ll be fine. But when we get quiet and we’re not as active, when we don’t cut, then those things kind of hurt us. There’s four things you can control: you can control what kind of defensive effort or energy you’re going to bring. You can control the pursuit of the ball and the physical -outs. You can’t control if you’re going to get it, but you can control your effort. You can control how hard you run and you can control your movement without the basketball, especially with the way we play. We were back to guys jogging in the wing, instead of running to the corner, and we’ve just got to play better. We need to play better and we will. The lineups will change as we go, and some guys will flourish and some guys will take a little bit longer to figure it out.”

GEORGIA SOPHOMORE TOUMANI CAMARA On his rebounding performance… “I got to do anything I [could] to help my team, and that’s I think a collective job on everybody’s got to . So, I think that was a big thing for me this game too be really focused on rebounding. Especially the last three games, I haven’t been doing my best at it so it is really something I need to focus on every game, and today, I guess was just a good day about it, and just need to keep rolling and keep it up.” POSTGAME QUOTES On his energy and keeping it up with limited fan capacity… “It is the fact, that we can win this game if we just stay focused on it and think about winning. Don’t let up. My teammates also help me—motivate me by making good plays, Sahvir [Wheeler] making good plays, the whole team making good plays. So, at the end of the day it is a team sport, so I cannot just lay down, and relax because I have four other dudes relying on me on the court and a whole bench that needs me. Having my energy up every time is something, I think is very important in my game.” On his comfort handling the ball in transition and what it says about having five guys who can play with the ball… “I feel really confident with the ball. It is something I worked on this summer, because last year I had a lot of improvement to make. I think having a team with five players that can handle the ball and be able to push it makes it easier for the point guard—for everybody—to just be able to push the ball and go. That is how fast we can be. I think it is a really rare thing you can see in basketball when everybody can handle it. So, I think it is a really good thing for us.”

GEORGIA GRADUATE ANDREW GARCIA On how he was able to attempt so many free throws tonight… “I try to use my aggressiveness. Coach Crean always puts me in a lot of positions to duck in, punch in, and get good position to use my strength throughout the whole game to wear their big men out. Shoutout to Sahvir [Wheeler], Justin [Kier], and the rest of the guards for looking for me.” On the role experienced players have when the other team is on a run... “Our role is to do the dirty work: get those rebounds, stay solid defensively, pick everybody out, and run the floor so that everybody can see that and continue that. We don’t want to fall short or get lazy and get out of our M.O., which is always playing at a fast pace. Us leaders have to continue to bring everybody out, bring everybody’s spirits up, and lead by that example.” On feeding off of Toumani Camara’s 17 rebounds… “It’s huge. Those second-chance points are really what held us down. A lot of times we got to the paint and a lot of us didn’t crash the boards, but Toumani’s continuous effort throughout the whole game showed. He got to the line, he finished those put-backs, and that’s what we really need consistently throughout the year.” MONTANA HEAD COACH TRAVIS DECUIRE

On his initial thoughts of the game… “There was some growth spurts no question about it. This game looked like their previous three games that I watched on film. They find a way to open it up, basically by crashing the offensive glass and pushing the ball really hard in transition, which is how they started. Once we got better offensive possessions, and five guys back on defense then they struggled to score. At the same time, we have to have that same resilience on the offensive end on the pressure. You just can’t turn the ball over 20 times and give up 18 offensive rebounds and expect to win.” On some of the bright spots from his defense… “Yeah, they were stuck on 21 for a long time. Maybe we could have done a little better if I didn’t flirt with the zone those couple of possessions but I wanted to keep them in front of us so we can get rebounds with [Michael] Steadman under the rim and not chasing three-point shooters around. There was growth there no question about it, but once again they got in transition too often and a lot of it was off of our turnovers.” On what Georgia did defensively that made it tough… “They’re quick and they’re strong. You get an SEC team at home, and this reminds me of the University of Washington with [Lorenzo] Romar, they just pressure you so much. They reach a lot, slap at the ball with every catch and you just can’t get every single one of them and eventually refs just get used to it and they don’t call it. They just deflected a lot of balls out of our hands. There were four or five times I can recall in the second half that we had a guy open inside and they slapped the ball out of his hands while he was trying to see the action. We just didn’t do a good enough job offensively being tough and decisive through the pressure.”