The South Carolina Gamecocks (14-12, 5-8) will travel to Athens, GA to take on the Georgia Bulldogs (18-9, 7-6) Saturday evening at Stageman Coliseum.
Georgia is coming off of a tough 71-62 loss to No. 13 Florida (22-5, 11-2) on Thursday night and will be looking to repeat their first half performance against the Gamecocks that they showed in a 60-56 win at South Carolina on February 12, where the Bulldogs allowed only nine first half points to the Gamecocks.
Trey Thompkins was able to control the boards and scored 16 points for Georgia while ripping down nine rebounds as the Gamecocks weren't able to get anything going inside until late in the game.
South Carolina ended the game on a 32-17 run and almost dug themselves out of a 23 point hole, but Bruce Ellington's three-point attempt with four seconds left in the game was blocked and ended the Gamecocks' late rally.
If South Carolina wants to win against Georgia, they are going to have to drive to the basket and get some lay-ins and/or draw some fouls. They cannot rely on their three point shooting, which has been very suspect lately, where they shot a combined 4-23 in the last meeting between these two teams.
One thing Carolina does have going their way is that they are coming off of a win. Sam Muldrow led the Gamecocks offensively with 23 points and 10 rebounds as the South Carolina senior racked up another double-double in the Gamecocks' 79-73 win over Ole Miss on Tuesday.
Muldrow has been the only hope for Carolina in the past few weeks and if they want to win on the road, he is going to have to have another big night as he begins to wind down his career at South Carolina.
Prediction:
South Carolina 60 Georgia 69
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