Georgia gains back Florida as permanent rival in men’s basketball

DESTIN, Fla. - Thanks to an adjusted SEC scheduling format, Georgia will once again play Florida twice every season in men’s basketball, along with Auburn and South Carolina.

SEC teams will now have three permanent opponents each season, meaning three teams that each season will have a home-and-home. The past three seasons, after expansion, each team only had one permanent opponent, with Georgia’s being South Carolina.

Georgia head coach Mark Fox was unhappy with that, preferring to play Florida every season, because of the rivalry. Now Fox gets Florida, along with another closeby rival.

The SEC will still play an 18-game schedule, which it moved to four years. So under the new format, each team will still play eight teams once, and five teams twice. But of the five home-and-homes, three will be permanent rivals, instead of just one, and the other two home-and-homes will be on a rotating basis.

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