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DANIEL SHIREY | The Rtn Buck
▲ Georgia sophomore point guard Dustin Ware will be taking his
Bulldogs onto the court tonight in an exhibition against North Georgia.
Dogs ready for exhibition
By NICK PARKER
The Red & Black
NCAA rules allow men’s basketball
coaches to hold two exhibition games
each year against non-division I oppo
nents. And for many years, Georgia bas
ketball took the traditional route, play
ing two exhibitions against Division II
opponents or traveling squads, consist
ing of washed-up former collegiate play
ers.
However, in recent years, the NCAA
has banned the use of games against
these traveling exhibition teams and a
new option has emerged: scrimmaging
against Division I opponents.
The catch?
No fans (and no concession dollars),
no media, and no publicity can be issued
from either participating school about
the game. It is strictly an opportunity
for two coaches to learn about their
squad. Unfortunately, they have to do so
without the pressure of fans and the
brigWHights attached.
Georgia began taking this route with
one of their two preseason allotments
last season when they traveled north up
1-85 for a closed scrimmage with Clemson
prior to the season.
Bulldogs’ head coach Mark Fox con
tinued this game when he came to
Georgia, taking the Bulldogs to Little
John Coliseum for a closed scrimmage
with Oliver Purnell’s No. 24 ranked
Tigers, Saturday.
The game consisted of three 20-min
ute halfs with the scoreboard resetting
at the start of each half.
“I think scrimmages can be good if
you play the right people and do it the
right way. It was a good experience for
us at Clemson,” Fox said. “This team
needed to play against somebody else.”
The Bulldogs fared better than you
might expect against one of the ACC’s
top teams, trading wins of each half with
the Tigers and tying them in one half,
according to senior Albert Jackson.
“I think we stacked up great,” Jackson
said. “I have no complaints about our
scrimmage. We played with them or out
played them during the scrimmage. I
think it gave us a lot more confidence
because we were better than they
thought we were going to be.”
“Asa team, I think we played pretty
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GEORGIA VS. NORTH GEORGIA
When: 7 tonight
Where: Stegeman Coliseum
More Information: Exhibition game before the
season begins Nov. 13 against New Orleans
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good,” junior center Jeremy Price said of
their play against Clemson. “We
impressed ourselves. We played hard,
and we competed.”
Sophomore point guard Dustin Ware
added: “I think, at the end of the scrim
mage, I thought it was decent, not where
we wanted to be, but we’re definitely
headed in the right direction.”
The Bulldogs faced a difficult enough
task in itself, facing Clemson’s vaulted
attacking, full-court press style defense,
but with the Bulldogs still stuck just get
ting down the basics of Fox’s new trian
gle offense, Fox spent little prior practice
time on his packages for breaking full
court presses, resulting in far too many
turnovers.
“We had a lot of turnovers,” sopho
more forward Travis Leslie said. “But
we’ve been working on it in practice, so
we’re going to bring them down.”
Fans’ first chance to get a look at the
revamped Dogs, and Fox’s first game in
Stegeman Coliseum, will come tonight
against North Georgia at 7. Tonight will
be the Bulldogs’ final opportunity of the
preseason to compete against, another
team before beginning their season Nov.
13 against New Orleans.
“We’ll need this exhibition [today] to
play in front of people, but we’re far from
a finished product, and we use any expe
rience to get better,” Fox said.
And after seeing Division II LeMoyne
College defeat No. 25 Syracuse on
Tuesday night, the Bulldogs aren’t tak
ing a win for granted, despite the obvi
ous disparity in talent.
“Definitely,” Jackson said of that loss
serving as a wake-up call, heading into
Friday’s match. “You should always take
every team serious, but especially for the
younger guys, it’s more of, in men’s bas
ketball, you’ve got to take every team
serious because you never know who can
come out and beat out who, no matter
what division they’re in.”
SPORTS
Rachel Bowers Ryne Dennis Thomas Nesmith Drew Kann
Sports writer Sports Editor Page Designer Sports writer
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BBn V LSU 10 LSU 24 LSU 17 Alabama 17
Penn state 24, Penn state 20, Ohio state 28, Penn State 28 '
Ohio State 9 Ohio State 12 Penn State 14 Ohio State 24
@ fltfo FSU 36, Clemson 38, FSU 42, FSU 31,
Clemson 28 FSU 33 Clemson 27 Clemson 24
UGA 53, UGA 51, UGA 49, UGA 34,
(SpS TTU2I TTU 17 HU 14 TTU 13
Lady Dogs host Clayton State
By RYNE DENNIS
The Red & Black
The women’s basketball team will be
holding an exhibition contest on Sunday
at Stegeman Coliseum against Clayton
State.
The Lady Dogs will look to work out
any kinks that may be left before their
season opener against perennial
power Oklahoma on Nov. 15.
Georgia will be led by its AII
- First-Team seniors Ashley
Houts and Angel Robinson.
Admission will be free for all.
Maria Taylor joins radio analyst
Former Lady Dog basketball
player, and volleyball star, Maria
Taylor will join current play-by
play announcer Jeff Dantzler as
the color analyst on the radio
this season.
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▲ Kathleen Gates (10) and Ann Dylla will try to keep the Bußdogs’
recent success going as they head to Florida and South Carolina.
Volleyball hits road for weekend
By BEN BUSSARD
The Red & Black
The Georgia volleyball
team hits the road this
weekend looking to avenge
two conference losses suf
fered earlier in the season.
First up for the Bulldogs
(14-10, 5-8 SEC) will be the
ninth-ranked Florida
Gators (16-3, 10-2 SEC)
and a trip to Gainesville,
Fla., where Georgia has not
won a match since 1986.
The Gators visited
Athens in October and
swept Georgia, 3-0, to hand
the Bulldogs their fourth
consecutive loss at the
time before they reeled off
three straight victories.
Georgia has turned
things around since the
Gators last came to town,
and head coach Joel
McCartney hopes to
improve on some of the
positives his team has
shown since their season
long losing streak was
snapped.
“Since that match, I feel
like we have grown so
much, and we’ve studied
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Florida on fllpi, and cer
tainly they’re a quality
opponent —very deserving
of the top-ten place they
have right now in the poll,”
he said. “But we’ve grown
so much in our intensity
and confidently being able
to stay in a match or come
back in a match. If we con
trol those factors eajly on
then we‘ll be in the match
right away.”
On Sunday, the Bulldogs
will head to Columbia, S.C.,
to take on a South Carolina
team that also swept
Georgia in Athens last
month.
The Gamecocks (12-11,
4-9 SEC) have struggled
mightily lately as they have
lost four of their last five
matches and have dropped
to last place in the SEC
eastern division standings.
Despite the loss to
South Carolina earlier in
the season, the Bulldogs
still hold a significant edge
in the all-time series
against the Gamecocks of
40-16, and they look to add
onto that dominance on
Sunday.
SPORTS NOTEBOOK
Taylor played in 22 games for the Lady
Dogs during their run to the Sweet 16 in
2007, where she averaged 1.2 points and
1.9 rebounds per game. Taylor currently
works for ISP sports, the multimedia
rights holder for UGA athletics, covering
events for georgiadogs.com.
Women’s tennis star downed in
Connecticut
Sophomore Chelsey
Gullickson, the Lady Bulldogs’
number one player, lost in
straight sets 7-6 (5), 6-2
Thursday at the ITA National
Indoor Championships in New
Haven, Connecticut. Gullickson
was said to have been slowed by a
sore knee and will not compete in
the consolation round today.
Volleyball @ Florida
When: 7 tonight
Where: Gainesville, Fla.
More Information: The
Bulldogs took to defeat the
Gators in Gainesville tor the
first time singe 1986.
The Bulldogs should be
well rested this weekend as
they have been idle since
their OCt. 30 loss to LSU.
McCajtney hopes that
the time off has helped
improve his team’s emo
tional and physical health.
“Physically they needed
some rest, but mentally
they did as well, and as
tough as that last week
was, It’s great to have that
Sunday off,” he said. “We
[had Monday] off, they get
back to class, and to be
able to have a day away
from training, to be able to
focus on their academics is
mentally restftil to them.”
Tip-off against the
Gators is scheduled for 7
p.m. while the Sunday
match against South
Carolina is set for 1:30 p.m.