UGA Basketball

UGA basketball SEC opponents for 2023-24 season set

by
Kevin Kelley
Jun 26, 2023

Photo: Tony Walsh/UGA

The UGA basketball SEC opponents for the 2023-24 season have officially been set, the school announced on Monday.

Georgia again plays their three permanent opponents, Auburn, Florida, and South Carolina, on a home-and-home basis this season. Additionally, the Bulldogs will also play the Arkansas Razorbacks and LSU Tigers home-and-home.

Other SEC opponents heading to Stegeman Coliseum in 2024 include Alabama, Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Texas A&M.

Georgia’s SEC road games include Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri, and Vanderbilt, in addition to the previously mentioned home-and-home opponents.

Georgia’s 2023-24 non-conference schedule has not yet been announced yet, but several opponents are known. UGA will open the season against the Oregon Ducks at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023 in a contest that is part of the Naismith Hall of Fame Series.

The Bulldogs are also set to play in the 2023 Baha Mar Bahamas Hoops Championship, an annual preseason college basketball tournament that is held at the Baha Mar Convention Center in Nassau, Bahamas. Games will be played Friday, Nov. 17 through Sunday, Nov. 19.

Georgia will open the tournament facing the Miami Hurricanes and will then play either the Kansas State Wildcats or Providence Friars in the second contest.

In other home non-conference action this season at Stegeman Coliseum, Georgia is scheduled to host Wake Forest on Friday, Nov. 10, Mount St. Mary’s on Wednesday, Dec. 20, North Florida on Friday, Dec. 22, Alabama A&M on Saturday, Dec. 30, and Georgia Tech on a date to be announced. The remainder of Georgia’s non-conference schedule will be reported over the next few months.

The 2023-24 season will be the second under head coach Mike White. The Bulldogs finished the 2022-23 season 16-16 overall and 6-12 in SEC play.