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Wednesday, January 9, aooß [ The Red * Black
Freshman forward turns
heads on basketball court
BY LAWRENCE CONNEFF
The Red & Buck
Rashaad Singleton's decision to
leave the Georgia men's basketball
team in search of more playing time
may have come as a surprise, but the
Bulldogs’ lineup shouldn't look much
different tonight against Georgia Tech
due to the outstanding play of fresh
man power forward Jeremy Price.
I Price moved into the
starting lineup more
than two weeks ago
when the seven-foot
Singleton was relegated
to the bench.
“Rashaad wasn’t
playing a ton of minutes
to begin with,” head
Icoach Dennis Felton
said. “I think that’s why
he decided there might
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be a better place for him.”
As Felton attempted to motivate
Singleton by having him ride the pine,
Price flourished on the court.
He immediately emerged as the
Bulldogs’ go-to scorer in the post,
scoring 22 points in his first career
start —a one-point loss to Tulane at
the Rainbow Classic in Hawaii. That
would be just one of five straight
games in which the freshman from
Decatur reached double figures.
"I wasn’t really focused on start
ing,” Price said. "I really just wanted
to play a lot, whether I was starting or
not.”
He’s played a lot from the begin
ning, placing fourth on the team in
minutes per game (22.8) despite hav
ing made just four starts in 12 games.
There have been plenty of growing
pains, however, most notably in a loss
to Gonzaga Saturday night.
Price was held to five points and
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managed to put up only one field-goal
attempt as he battled through foul
trouble against the Zags.
“I kind of let my emotions take over
my game a little bit,” Price said. “(My
teammates) were looking for me. It
was all on me.”
“Up until the Gonzaga game, he’s
played awfully well,” Felton said. "He
had a tough night against Gonzaga.
Some of it was attributed to the foul
trouble, but unfortunately a piece of
that was attributed to the fact he lost
control of his emotions one moment
and got a technical,” Felton said. “That
kind of put him in a hole, and he might
not have really been in such a hole
without that. He’s, still very much on
that learning curve defensively. He’s
having a terrific freshman year.”
Beyond the in-state rivalry, tonight’s
matchup with the Yellow Jackets (7-6)
holds added significance for Price, who
will face former teammate Lance
Storrs for the first time in the pair's
short college careers.
Storrs, a freshman shooting guard
averaging 8.1 minutes a game for Tech,
starred alongside Price at Decatur’s
Columbia High School, where they
won a Class AAAA state title in 2006.
“I’m looking forward to it,” Price
said. “I mean, I played with Lance so
long, I never really got an opportunity
to play against him.”
“I talk to him a lot. Of course about
this game, but also how things are
going with each other."
Felton also stated that starting
guard Billy Humphrey is day-to-day
with an injured left knee that has
bothered him for several weeks.
Humphrey, who leads Georgia (8-4)
with 13.4 points per game, had an MRI
Monday that’s results will determine
whether he is able to play against the
Yellow Jackets.
SPORTS
Tennis teams earn Top-5 rankings
The Georgia men’s ten
nis team has been ranked
No. 2 in the nation in the
first Intercollegiate Tennis
Association rankings of the
2008 season, the ITA
announced Tuesday.
Georgia now has begun
four straight seasons rated
among the top three nation
ally.
The Georgia women’s
RANK; Richt remembers ‘interesting’ year
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DiPrimio of the Fort Wayne News Sentinel
all gave their top poll spots to Georgia.
"I thought Georgia was the most deserv
ing team —• they had played the best foot
ball over the last couple of months,” Wolf
said. "LSU losing so late in the season hurt
them even though they were still able to
work their way back up. Looking at Georgia
and USC, the fact that USC lost to (4-8)
Stanford was a bigger loss to me or a more
embarrassing loss than Georgia’s losses.
"I had Georgia No. 1 before the BCS
Championship Game, and when they won
so resoundingly, it was an affirmation for
me that they should be the No. 1 team.”
Van Brimmer offered similar sentiments
Tuesday.
"At the end of the season, I had Ohio
State No. 1 and Hawai’i No. 2, but during
the holidays, I was able to catch up and
watch some Big Ten games, and after
watching Ohio State, I thought that this
was not a title-worthy team," he said.
“It came down to which team was hot
test at the end of the year, and to me that
was Southern Cal and Georgia. But
Southern Cal’s loss to Stanford was a worse
loss that Georgia’s losses.”
That Trojan loss could have been the
deciding factor that enabled the Bulldogs
to edge out USC for second place by just
15 votes.
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SPORTS NOTEBOOK
tennis team is ranked
fifth in the women’s ITA
poll, it was announced
Tuesday.
The Bulldogs opened last
year ranked No. 24, and
jumped all the way to No. 1
at one point in a season in
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▲ Georgia head coach Mark Richt
talks to quarterback Matthew
Stafford on the sidelines during the
Georgia Tech game in Atlanta.
When asked about the adage that nobody
remembers who finishes second, Richt had
a retrospective and optimistic response.
“It was a very interesting year there
was a lot of drama, a lot of excitement, a lot
of passion and a lot of lack of passion early
on at times,” he said. “It was an emotionai
year, but it was a fun year, and I’m going to
remember that we were No. 2.”
which they posted a 24-2
overall record and won both
the Southeastern
Conference regular-season
and tournament titles.
They finished fourth in
the final rankings after
advancing to the NCAA
Quarterfinals.
VGA Sports
Communications