Georgia Bulldogs College Basketball

The Georgia Bulldogs basketball team represents the University of Georgia (UGA), which has one of the nation's most elite sports programs, participating in the Southeastern Conference. The University supports 18 other kinds of sports such as baseball, football, men's and women's cross country, women's equestrian, men's and women's golf, softball, women's gymnastics, women's soccer, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track, and women's volleyball. The teams have got victories in a combined 28 team national competitions and 122 Southeastern Conference championships at the end of the 2005-2006 season.

Being one of the oldest kinds of sports at the University of Georgia, men's basketball program has been quite successful throughout its 102-year history. The Bulldog basketball teams have achieved an all-time record of 1,143 -1050, which also incorporates 4 conference championships and 18 appearances in post-season tournaments.

At the beginning of Georgia basketball program the coaches of the team changed quite often. In its first 14 years of existence, six various coaches led the team before Herman J. Stegeman. By the way, the present playing arena was named after Stegeman. He trained some perfect teams, and he still holds the second-best winning percentage (.686) of any Georgia coach with more than 50 games to the credit. His last Bulldogs team got victories in 23 out of 25 matches and received the University's first conference title in 1932. The 1932 season was Bulldogs last season in the old Southern Conference. Under the direction of the coach Rex Enright, the Bulldogs basketball team received 19-7 and got the victory in the Southeastern Conference championship defeating the North Carolina team with the score of 26-24 in the finals.

The best years in the history of Georgia Bulldogs happened in the past twenty years with the coaches Hugh Durham and Orlando Tubby Smith. Durham's direction of the 1981 Bulldog squad to the National Invitation Tournament started a series of 8 straight post-season positions. Actually, 18 of the past 22 Georgia Bulldogs teams have received such standings, including nine in the NCAA Championship Tournament. The Bulldogs first NCAA appearance, in 1983, became an important achievement in the teams history. The Bulldogs joined the N.C. State, Houston and Louisville teams in the Final Four' in Albuquerque. It was widely assumed that the Bulldogs used their championship at the Southeastern Conference Tournament, the University's first league title since 1932, as a stepping stone on the way to the Final Four.

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