2007–08 Georgia Bulldogs basketball team

American college basketball season March 2026 August 2023 Basketball none 2007–08 Georgia Bulldogs Georgia Athletics logo.svg 150 Southeastern Conference SEC 17–17 4–12 Dennis Felton 5th Pete Herrmann Mike Jones Desmond Oliver Stegeman Coliseum SEC tournament champions NCAA tournament first round The 2007–08 Georgia Bulldogs basketball team represented the University of Georgia during the 2007–08 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team's head coach was Dennis Felton, who was in his fifth season at UGA. They played their home games at Stegeman Coliseum and were members of the Southeastern Conference. They finished the season 17–17, 4–12 in SEC play. 2008 SEC Tournament: The Dream Dawgs In the 2007–2008 season, Georgia's men's basketball team came into the 2008 SEC men's basketball tournament with a 13–16 overall record and a 4–12 conference mark. At one point, the team sustained two five-game losing streaks during a 2-of-12 stretch in conference play. In the first round of the tournament, Georgia was slated to play Ole Miss, who had beaten the Bulldogs in the season-closer, securing the Rebels' only road SEC win of the season. The game went into overtime after Rebel David Huertas hit all three free throws after a three-point shooting foul, and looked to go into a second extra period after Chris Warren did the same. However, with 0.4 seconds left in overtime, Georgia senior Dave Bliss banked in the game-winner to shock the Rebels and send Georgia into a second-round matchup with Kentucky. On the night of March 14, 2008, tornadoes hit Atlanta, in whose Georgia Dome the SEC Tournament was housed. The Georgia-Kentucky matchup was rescheduled for the early afternoon of March 15, 2008, with the winner advancing to play the SEC West's #1 seed, Mississippi State, later that evening. The remaining games in the tournament would be played at Alexander Memorial Coliseum, the basketball complex of Georgia Tech, UGA's in-state rival. Again playing an overtime game in which Georgia star Sundiata Gaines fouled out, Georgia freshman Zac Swansey hit a turnaround three-point jumper with 1.4 seconds left to give the Bulldogs the team's first ever win over Kentucky in the SEC Tournament.http://www.georgiadogs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=40731&SPID=3593&DB_OEM_ID=8800&ATCLID=1412682 Georgia Takes Down Kentucky In Overtime March 22, 2008 October 2010 H3llBot That night, Georgia defeated Mississippi State 64–60 to become the first team since Kentucky in 1952 to win two tournament games in one day, and the first-ever #6 seed from a division to advance to the modern (post-1992) SEC tournament finals. In the finals, Georgia faced Arkansas, which had lost to Georgia 82–69 in the regular season. Georgia prevailed again, at one point leading the Razorbacks by nineteen points en route to winning its first tournament championship in 25 years. Sundiata Gaines and Terrance Woodbury were both named to the All-Tournament Team, with Gaines winning the tournament's MVP. The improbable list of achievements—winning the tournament as a 6-seed, playing two games in one day to reach the finals, playing two games (against Kentucky and Mississippi State) in which Gaines fouled out with a substantial amount of time to play, doing it on a rival's home court, and winning four consecutive elimination games following a season during which their longest winning streak stood at three—earned the 2007–2008 team the nickname of Dream Dawgs.http://dawgs.com/forum/georgia-bulldogs/13483-dream-dawgs.html Dream Dawgs March 22, 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20140318020047/http://dawgs.com/forum/georgia-bulldogs/13483-dream-dawgs.html March 18, 2014 dead With the victory, Georgia secured itself an automatic bid in the 2008 NCAA tournament. Georgia's appearance in the tournament was the tenth overall in team history and the first since the 2002 NCAA basketball tournament. After their SEC Championship run, the Bulldogs were seeded 14th in the NCAA Tournament, playing against the #3 seeded Xavier Musketeers. After developing a lead early in the 2nd half, the Bulldogs could not hold on, as Xavier went on to win 73–61. Schedule and results https://georgiadogs.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule/2007-08 2007–08 Men's Basketball Schedule University of Georgia Athletics yes yes |- !colspan=12 style="Georgia Bulldogs white"|Exhibition 11/03/2007 7:00 pm yes Clayton State Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 90–56 |- !colspan=12 style="Georgia Bulldogs white"| Non-conference regular season 11/09/2007 9:00 pm yes Jacksonville State Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 107–65 7,446 1–0 11/14/2007 7:30 pm yes Grambling State Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 83–70 6,309 2–0 11/20/2007 7:30 pm yes Elon Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 76–65 6,246 3–0 11/24/2007 6:30 pm yes yes Wisconsin Kohl Center Madison, WI 49–68 17,190 3–1 11/28/2007 7:00 pm yes Delaware State Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 58–47 6,288 4–1 12/03/2007 7:30 pm yes Augusta State Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 81–74 6,502 5–1 12/08/2007 2:00 pm yes Wake Forest Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 72–50 7,800 6–1 12/20/2007 12:30 am yes yes East Tennessee State Stan Sheriff Center Honolulu, HI Rainbow Classic 58–76 6–2 12/21/2007 6:30 pm yes yes Tulane Stan Sheriff Center Honolulu, HI Rainbow Classic consolation 69–70 6–3 12/22/2007 4:00 pm yes yes Hawaii Stan Sheriff Center Honolulu, HI Rainbow Classic 7th place game 67–59 7–3 12/30/2007 4:00 pm yes Presbyterian Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 68–58 7,268 8–3 01/05/2008 4:00 pm yes yes Gonzaga Spokane Arena Spokane, WA Ronald McDonald House Charities Classic 67–75 12,064 8–4 01/09/2008 7:30 pm yes Georgia Tech Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 79–72 10,503 9–4 |- !colspan=12 style="Georgia Bulldogs white"| SEC regular season 01/12/2008 2:00 pm yes Mississippi State Humphrey Coliseum Starkville, MS 49–60 8,713 9–5 0–1 01/16/2008 7:30 pm Alabama Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 61–54 7,982 10–5 1–1 01/19/2008 7:00 pm Arkansas Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 82–69 8,322 11–5 2–1 01/26/2008 7:00 pm yes Tennessee 3 Thompson–Boling Arena Knoxville, Tennessee 69–85 21,099 11–6 2–2 01/30/2008 7:30 pm yes South Carolina Colonial Life Arena Columbia, SC 56–62 11,876 11–7 2–3 02/02/2008 1:00 pm Kentucky Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 58–63 10,313 11–8 2–4 02/06/2008 7:30 pm Vanderbilt 23 Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 59–67 6,788 11–9 2–5 02/09/2008 3:00 pm yes Florida O'Connell Center Gainesville, FL 67–77 12,131 11–10 2–6 02/13/2008 7:30 pm South Carolina Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 82–64 6,897 12–10 3–6 02/16/2008 3:00 pm Tennessee 4 Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 71–74 10,039 12–11 3–7 02/19/2008 9:00 pm yes Kentucky Rupp Arena Lexington, KY 55–61 22,271 12–12 3–8 02/23/2008 4:00 pm yes Vanderbilt 20 Memorial Gymnasium Nashville, TN 74–86 14,310 12–13 3–9 02/27/2008 7:30 pm Florida Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 64–77 8,695 12–14 3–10 03/02/2008 2:00 pm yes LSU Pete Maravich Assembly Center Baton Rouge, LA 64–71 8,130 12–15 3–11 03/05/2008 8:00 pm yes Auburn Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum Auburn, AL 59–54 6,111 13–15 4–11 03/08/2008 3:00 pm Ole Miss Stegeman Coliseum Athens, GA 62–76 7,774 13–16 4–12 |- !colspan=12 style="Georgia Bulldogs"| SEC tournament 03/13/2008 9:45 pm yes E6 Ole Miss W3 Georgia Dome Atlanta, GA First Round 97–95 OT 15,563 14–16 03/15/2008 12:00 pm yes E6 Kentucky E2 Alexander Memorial Coliseum Atlanta, GA Second Round 60–56 OT 1,458 15–16 03/15/2008 8:30 pm yes E6 Mississippi State W1 Alexander Memorial Coliseum Atlanta, GA Semifinals 64–60 2,517 16–16 03/16/2008 3:30 pm yes E6 Arkansas W2 Alexander Memorial Coliseum Atlanta, GA Championship Game 66–57 3,700 17–16 |- !colspan=12 style="Georgia Bulldogs"| NCAA tournament 03/20/2008 12:20 pm yes yes 14 Xavier 12 3 Verizon Center Washington, D.C. 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