SEC tourney pairings set, including No. 6 seed Georgia vs. Arkansas (UPDATED)
(Updated 7:15 p.m.)
It’ll be the Dogs vs. the Hogs at the SEC men’s basketball tournament.
Georgia and Arkansas will meet in a first-round game at 9:45 p.m. Thursday in Nashville. Georgia will be the SEC East’s No. 6 seed and Arkansas the West’s No. 3 seed.
The matchup was determined before Georgia’s 50-48 loss at LSU on Saturday. Earlier in the day, South Carolina’s upset victory at Vanderbilt had ensured that Georgia would be the East’s No. 6 seed and Arkansas’ home loss to Ole Miss had ensured that the Razorbacks would be UGA’s first-round opponent.
Thursday’s full first-round schedule (all times Eastern, divisional seeds in parentheses):
1 p.m.: (E5) South Carolina vs. (W4) Alabama.
3:15 p.m.: (W6) LSU vs. (E3) Tennessee.
7:30 p.m.: (W5) Auburn vs. (E4) Florida.
9:45 p.m.: (E6) Georgia vs. (W3) Arkansas.
And Friday’s quarterfinals:
1 p.m.: South Carolina-Alabama winner vs. (E1) Kentucky
3:15 p.m.: LSU-Tennessee winner vs. (W2) Ole Miss
7:30 p.m.: Auburn-Florida winner vs. (W1) Mississippi State
9:45 p.m.: Georgia-Arkansas winner vs. (E2) Vanderbilt
A Georgia win at LSU Saturday would not have affected the Bulldogs’ tournament seeding because South Carolina clinched the East’s No. 5 seed with the victory at Vanderbilt. Even if Georgia had beaten LSU to match South Carolina’s 6-10 league record, the Gamecocks would have gotten the higher seed on the basis of the third tiebreaker, which is record vs. the division’s top seed (Kentucky). South Carolina is 1-1 vs. Kentucky, Georgia 0-2.
Georgia’s loss to LSU dropped the Dogs to 5-11 in the SEC and put them alone in last place in the East standings.
One advantage of the East No. 6 seed, as opposed to No. 5, is that it placed Georgia in the opposite half of the tournament bracket from Kentucky. While the Georgia-Arkansas winner will play Vanderbilt in the quarterfinals Friday, the South Carolina-Alabama winner will face Kentucky.
Arkansas will enter the tournament on a five-game losing streak and Georgia on a two-game skid. In the teams’ regular-season meeting — Feb. 3 in Athens — Arkansas won 72-68 after Georgia led by 15 points at halftime.
The loss at LSU means that Georgia finishes the regular season without a road victory (0-11 in opponents’ arenas).
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107 comments Add your comment
Cherokee
March 6th, 2010
8:46 pm
Floundering Fox Hounds Batman! ………never said we run the state or the SEC. But then again neither does Tennessee I think that would go to UK
Cherokee
March 6th, 2010
8:48 pm
MY mistake that should have been Diamond Dog’s Parole Officer
CatsFly
March 6th, 2010
8:58 pm
Look, UGa and Tech fans, just continue to argue about your football programs and watch UNC vs Duke in the greatest, most interesting, most watched, most competitive, college sports contest. Neither of you will ever see your teams play on the same stage in any sport.
Diamond Dog's Parole Officer
March 6th, 2010
9:15 pm
CatsFly… Whichh one is your alma mater? DUke or UNC?
FL Dawg
March 6th, 2010
9:37 pm
Are there any tornados scheduled for Thursday?
poopdawg
March 6th, 2010
9:42 pm
DD”SPO you give the Gators a bad name . You talk like you scored a few TDS this year yourself. But I would bet thats not the case . Just a case of DAWG ENVY.
Buzzy As A Bee
March 6th, 2010
9:52 pm
MY COMMENT IS ‘AWAITING MODERATION’
YEA RIGHT, GO LOOK AT ‘TECH’ WHERE THIS IS PASTED ON THEIR SITE BY THE PERSON WHO REPORTED THIS..
GIVE ME A BREAK.
UGA Basketball Blog
March 6th, 2010
10:10 pm
http://hoopdawg.wordpress.com
Fair and Balanced
March 6th, 2010
10:18 pm
Seems like I heard and read a lot of positive things about the new GA coach. Sounded like a corner was turned. UGA paid big bucks for this coach…….. contract buyout sealed well to insure his stay at GA……… future this and that.
So how come GA ends up right where it was predicted? No surprises this season – same old poor season – same old losing record – same old seeding in SEC tourney etc. Sorry, but I just don’t see how us GA fans are supposed to be excited about the new guy and a new program that gets the same old results. The same old expected results!
Gen Neyland
March 6th, 2010
10:29 pm
As crazy as it sounds, I expected UGA to get their first SEC road win against a pitiful LSU team. Now, before we crowm Fox SEC Coach of the Year, let us reflect upon the fact that UGA was also a 6E seed in last years SEC Tourney. No movement. Coach Crook at Kentucky brought his band of brothers up from a 4E to a 1E. Tennessee fell to a 3E from a 1E last year and Vandy went from a E5 to a E2. I just don’t see a SEC COTY candidate from the West. Let the games begin and Congrats to the Lady Vols and the Female Felines for making it into the Women’s SEC Final tomorrow night…GBO
harold
March 6th, 2010
10:30 pm
GEORGIA BASKETBALL JUST PLAIN SUCKS!
Fox the Greatest!
March 6th, 2010
10:40 pm
Fox—coach of the year!!! another loss–who cares—he’s the greatest!!! He’s the best coach in the SEc, period and maybe the nation. Ignore that 5-11 SEC record—he’s a coaching genius–Ga beat a good team during the year so that makes him COACH of the YEAR!!!!!!!
ken
March 6th, 2010
10:57 pm
“Floundering”….I have you “bookmarked”, bud…..GA and LSU…GA loses huh? I have a quote by you…and if you ‘lose”…boy oh boy…am I ever going to headline your azz! Hehehehehe…and you didn’t know…that is one reason that you and “harold” do not know anything about the NCAAs…hell, guyz….it is tournament time…anything goes or didn’t ya know that?!
SOGADOG
March 6th, 2010
11:29 pm
Just got back from Tallahassee, we left during the 7th inning. The Diamond Dawgs were down 9 to 1 when we left. FSU looked awesome. The Dawgs looked pretty good for five innings but melted down two innings. FSU scored 8 runs in two innings. We had a runner picked off at first base three times, and had at least two runs scored on wild pitches. We walked FSU several times. We looked sloppy and intimidated most of the game. FSU has a great venue and a great team.
GT IS STILL A 4TH RATE HIGH SCHOOL TEAM
March 7th, 2010
12:40 am
EVERYTHING IS JUST FINE AS LONG AS THOSE DAWGS KEEP ON STOMPING DOWN THOSE JELLO JOCKITCH IN ALL SPORTS. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHHAHA
BuLLdawg
March 7th, 2010
3:52 am
UGA sports blog, not basketball blog. Where does it say, we only can discuss basketball ? We are having a discussion, too, it seems that a fan cannot say that we should make a choice for # 1 already. And, that a fan can only subscribe to the Paul Hewitt philosophy for fans that if you don’t think his team is playing their best basketball of the year while losing, that you cannot say anything at all. Such as pointing out that Georgia tek thugs such as Javaris Crittenton kicked out of the NBA, Paul Hewitt’s losing record to UGA by 2 games under .500 now, and his 914 NCAA APR Academic Progress Rate put Georgia tek on PROBATION with limits of only 11 scholarships as we speak. But, of course, a fan can say that he is not particularly pleased 1-3 vs the vols and 1-3 vs Florida the last 4 years. That is whether you like it or not. Both Wally Butts and Vince Dooley both had better than 27 losses in a 9-year period. And, don’t forget that we are not even a winning record over the last 4 years in our own Division of our own conference. I have no idea what Logan Gray means while he is given the wasted time under center this Spring whining about how he felt that he should have been given an equal shot last year, as well with his 5 completions starting his 4th season here with 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions. If the coaching staff has to cow-tow to his wishes that he be bowed to and scraped in front of to be made happy, then I point out that he had 1 returned a punt last year for minus -2 yards.
Criticize the coaching staff for not giving you this opportunity LAST YEAR, Logan Gray. What’s that all about ?
Floundering Fox Hounds Batman!
March 7th, 2010
4:36 am
Someone mentioned they’re ready for UGA baseball???? LOL have you seen the last three beatdown games administered by no other than Alabama and FSU ????? Baseball is toast too dog fans….
Gator On the Loose
March 7th, 2010
7:49 am
Fox is an awesome coach, only lost by 2 points to LSU as the Tigers matched their total SEC win count yesterday. I guess athens is a diamond of a place to coach if your fans praise you for finishing at the bottom.
Georgia at the Top!
March 7th, 2010
8:24 am
Georgia sucked in football, sucked in basketball, sucks in baseball–oh well, maybe the women’s gymnastics team will be good or maybe even the men’s tennis team!!!! Maybe next year the big teams will be better, but it doesn’t look good now.
Louie
March 7th, 2010
8:36 am
Well, where do I start.
jackhammer, get back in here.Report as you were told.
Time to change the subject muttsters.BB not a hot topic as we see.
Louie Jr., what happened my little pooch pod?
Oh well, silence is golden, yes sir.
STILL…..
LATER.
PTC DAWG
March 7th, 2010
8:47 am
Please, AJC, I beg you, make these blogs accountable…have a registration process, and let someone moderate them. Otherwise, they are useless.
Danny Ford
March 7th, 2010
9:02 am
Hay youngsters, dont you still have a foot ball team in georgia? Thats all I here about up hear in Clemson.Oh yea, did ya know Hershal never ventured in our end zone . just thought you mite like too kno. Gotta go pull a kow. Talk at you latter.
Buzzy
March 7th, 2010
9:07 am
Buzzy As A Bee
March 6th, 2010
9:52 pm
Ha ha ha-got your little azz BUSTED!
Montgomery Burns
March 7th, 2010
9:40 am
All this talk about UGA hoops this year and look where they finish. Again. Some things never change.
Dawg Hater
March 7th, 2010
9:40 am
Stick another fork in Georgia sports
“Mitchell leads LSU over Georgia 50-48″
Middle of the pack in the SEC. Bottom of the pack if you take away all the tile 9 sports. What a joke!
Joseph Alston Speed
March 7th, 2010
10:00 am
COMING TO SAMFORD STADIUM IN NOVEMBER.
HOPE YOU SEE ME BLAZE BY.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Buzzy
March 7th, 2010
10:27 am
Buzzy As A Bee: Ha ha …good for you : ) ! I thought the ‘Raid for Wasp’ would work on a yellow jacket. I guess not, so it is time for a new insecticide. I await in anticipation for your next swarm attack.
Liver Lip
March 7th, 2010
10:59 am
and what became of Louie Jr. and his band of aliases?
did he really hang out on North Ave? thought he was a dawg fan.
Yellow Fuzz
March 7th, 2010
11:21 am
Back this fall by popular demand………….
((((((((( 45- 42 ))))))))))))
Dr M
March 7th, 2010
11:44 am
I live in Baton Rouge and was excited to have a chance to see the Dawgs live with a chance to win an SEC road game. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, we were listless and failed to capitalize on the Tigers’ overall lackluster play. I hope we regroup and get energized for the tourney where we have a great shot to win our first two…hope springs eternal….
Jimmy
March 7th, 2010
1:22 pm
Sid – Are you saying that Albert Jackson in not a man who thinks deeply?
Georgia at the Top!
March 7th, 2010
1:41 pm
Sure–georgia sucks again, but somehow they beat a good team during the year, so that makes their coach the “coach of the year” in the SEC!!! Give him a big raise and bonus!!!!
jackhammer
March 7th, 2010
2:52 pm
Louie,
Sorry about the phone, but ‘it’ happens. May be a few months so you’ll have to switch to e-mail. I’ve already checked with ‘XS’ about it. I’ll be on this blog, tonight, around 7pm. Be here.
Last place dawgs
March 7th, 2010
3:21 pm
awesome! to bad no one cares!
DD
March 7th, 2010
3:54 pm
Dream On Yellow Fuzz(Nutts) One win out of nine… Get use to it. Won’t even be close it Athens. The Nerd Herd will be calling for Johnson’s head just like Hewitt’s. Now go crawl back under that rock for another 8 years
Louie
March 7th, 2010
4:26 pm
Well, where do I start.
jackhammer, glad you did as you were told.
POWERS NOT SOMETHING YOU GIVE, POWERS SOMETHING YOU TAKE !!!
As previously mentioned, I don’t do e-mail so we will have to converse on this blog.
GET THE DAMN PHONE TAKEN CARE OF !!
Heard LYTLE DYTLE was swinging a 7 iron in the den and broke the chandelier.
Oh well, 7 pm.
STILL…
LATER.
Reality Engineer
March 7th, 2010
4:35 pm
Take this to the bank—Tech will beat Georgia in Athens this year, and it will not be as close as 2008! Tech’s going to be loaded on offense, and that silly 3-4 D georgia runs will not stop the Ramblin’ Wreck machine!!!!
BOOGIES THE MAN FROM HARTWELL GA
March 7th, 2010
4:55 pm
DON’T KNOW WHAT REALITY ENGINEER IS SMOKING . TEKKIES GONNA GET RUN OUT IN ATHENS AND ADD TO THE WHUPPING STRING. BRING THEM GIRLS ON, LET SEE WHO RUNS ON WHO.
Yellow Fuzz
March 7th, 2010
5:37 pm
BOOGIES THE MAN FROM HARTWELL GA
March 7th, 2010
4:55 pm
DON’T KNOW WHAT REALITY ENGINEER IS SMOKING . TEKKIES GONNA GET RUN OUT IN ATHENS AND ADD TO THE WHUPPING STRING. BRING THEM GIRLS ON, LET SEE WHO RUNS ON WHO.
Hahaha. You said the exact same thing two years ago AH when we spotted your preseason number one azzes 16 points at half time (IN ATHENS), scored 26 unanswered points in the 3rd qtr, rushed for 408 yards on the day and killed your chance of back dooring the Sugar Bowl. Nice try AH!
BOOGIES THE MAN FROM HARTWELL GA
March 7th, 2010
6:34 pm
HEY FUZZ-LESS..LAST TIME I TALKED TO YOU WAS WHEN YOU WERE GONNA BE AT YOUR YELLOW PUP-TENT ON NORTH AVENUE BEFORE THE GAME WHEN YOU SAID LOOK YOU UP. WELL I LOOKED YOU UP AND THERE WERE SO MANY GEEKS LOOKING LIKE YOU HANGING AROUND SICK ON BOONE’S FARM WINE AND WHEN I ASKED WHERE I COULD FIND YOUR DWEEB A$$, YOUR CRONIES SAID YOU LEFT THE SCENE WITH YOUR BOYFRIEND.
YOU KEEP HANGING YOUR A-HAT ON 2 YEARS AGO. WHAT’S HAPPENED IN JUST THE MARK RICHT ERA SON.
FUNNY HOW YOU LEFT THE SCENE AFTER THE GAME IN ATLANTA.
DON’T GIVE ME YOUR CRAP, TRY TO SHUT ME THE —- UP YOU LOSER.
BOOGIES THE MAN FROM HARTWELL GA
March 7th, 2010
6:44 pm
Yellow Fuzz
March 7th 2010
11:21am
Back this fall by popular demand ……….
(((((((((((((( 30-24 )))))))))))))
BOOGIES THE MAN FROM HARTWELL GA
March 7th, 2010
6:45 pm
I CAN’T HEAR YOU HAT …..
Absolutely 100% On The Money
March 7th, 2010
6:48 pm
Toooshaaaayyyyy Boogie.
Louie
March 7th, 2010
6:52 pm
Enter your comments here
Louie
March 7th, 2010
6:56 pm
Well, where do I start.
Wanna hear a little jingle? Nah, didn’t think so.
jackhammer, waiting on 7 o’clock…
Look’s like ‘The Fuzz’ got the mutts excited. Good for him. Hey, hold it—–
Gotta catch the door, later.
SaintSimons
March 7th, 2010
7:04 pm
45-42
Louie
March 7th, 2010
7:39 pm
Little disapointed jackhammer. It’s 7:38 and like always you’re late.
May be on in the am (8-9 am) Have change in schedule tomorrow. Look for you then or 7;30- 9;30 tomorrow night. Look for me.
STILL…
Mark Fox
March 7th, 2010
10:18 pm
TWEET!
Somebody pinch me! Last place in the conference and they’re already building a statue of me!
UGAKev
March 7th, 2010
10:54 pm
GREAT TIMES ARE COMING FOR FOXES DAWGS! TECH IS GOING DOWN! WE BEAT TECH!
dawgbone
March 8th, 2010
1:54 am
a year too late to change the attitude of the D…wm should’ve been gone after GT ‘08…the O will be sound if not stellar… the GATA has gotta return on the D for the Dawgs to return to JUNKYARD levels!