UGA Men’s Basketball: Bulldogs’ SEC Tip Times, TV Assignments Set

ATHENS, Ga. — Stegeman Coliseum will be busy on Saturday afternoons this winter. Four of the Georgia Bulldogs’ five home weekend SEC games will be matinee matchups, with game time for the fifth date still to be determined.

The Southeastern Conference announced the game times and television assignments for all 14 league schools for the upcoming season on Thursday. Tip-off times and TV designations for Georgia’s non-conference games in November and December are yet to be finalized.

Four of the Bulldogs’ home dates will appear on the ESPN family of networks, while the other five will air on the SEC Network.

Georgia’s Saturday games against Auburn on Feb. 5, South Carolina on Feb. 12 and Ole Miss on Feb. 19 all will tip at 1:00 p.m. on the SEC Network. A Feb. 28 date with Florida will begin at either noon or 4:00 p.m. and be televised on either ESPN or ESPN2. The Bulldogs’ other weekend contest at Stageman versus Vanderbilt on ESPNU on Jan. 15 is the one game time still listed as “TBD.”

Georgia opens league action against Texas A&M at 7:00 p.m. on ESPNU on Tuesday, Jan. 4. The remaining weeknight home games times include another 7:00 p.m. outing against Arkansas on ESPN2 or ESPNU on Wednesday, Feb. 2 and a pair of 6:30 p.m. Tuesday night SEC Network matchups against Alabama on Jan. 25 and Tennessee on March 1.

The Bulldogs will begin their fourth season under head coach Tom Crean against Florida International on Tuesday, Nov. 9 at Stegeman Coliseum. That contest is the first of 19 home games for Georgia during the 2021-22 season.

Under Crean, Georgia has emerged as one of the SEC’s most explosive offenses while also drawing record-breaking attendance figures. Season tickets for Georgia are now on sale with more information available here.

Last season, the Bulldogs averaged averaged 77.5 points per game, their second-highest offensive output in the 2000s and the most since the 2002-03 campaign. In addition, Georgia has reached the 90-point scoring plateau 15 times in 90 games under Crean. The Bulldogs did so 15 times in 387 games before Crean’s arrival, a span that dates back to the 2006-07 season.

Georgia broke its all-time total attendance record at Stegeman Coliseum in each of Crean’s first two seasons before limited seating was required last winter due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Two seasons ago, the Bulldogs’ averaged 9,651 fans per game, the second highest in school history, and hosted a school-record 11 crowds of 10,000-plus.