Ole Miss did everything it was supposed to do Tuesday night, zoning the Bulldogs to death on a poor-shooting night and making tough shots of their own.
But then it came time for the game to be decided, and Georgia made the shots they were missing and the plays they needed to. It added up to their third consecutive victory, 69-64 at Stegeman Coliseum.
Georgia (12-5, 3-2 SEC) couldn’t hit the broad side of a backboard for much of the night, missing every 3 it tried until well into the second half and a lot of point-blank ones, too. Charles Mann couldn’t score at all in the first half. But the junior from Alpharetta was good for 12 points in the second half and helped the Bulldogs close out the game from the free-throw line.
Ole Miss (11-7, 2-3) got 26 from junior guard Stefan Moody, but none in the final critical seconds, when Georgia pushed a one-point margin into a five-point victory.
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