Georgia Basketball Game Notes
- Georgia (17-8, 5-7 SEC) vs. Kentucky (17-8, 8-4)
- Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
- Time: 9:00 p.m. ET
- Venue: Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center (20,050)
- Location: Lexington, Ky.
- TV: ESPN (Tom Hart, play-by-play; Dane Bradshaw, analyst)
- Streaming: SECN+
- Radio: Georgia Bulldog Network; Sirius 382 (Scott Howard, play-by-play; Chuck Dowdle, analyst; Adam Gillespie, producer)
- Tickets: www.georgiadogs.com/mbbtix
The Starting 5
- Georgia visits Rupp Arena and the Kentucky Wildcats on Tuesday evening looking to improve the Bulldogs’ solid 4-3 road record during the 2025-26 campaign.
- After using the same starting five for 19 of the season’s first 22 outings, Georgia has used different lineups in each of its last four outings, including Kareem Stagg’s first career start at Oklahoma
- Freshman Kareem Stagg has seen his PT and production skyrocket over the past two games. After averaging 0.6 ppg in 6.4 mpg in the first 10 SEC dates, he’s scoring 9.5 ppg in 21.5 mpg in the last two.
- Georgia entered this week leading the nation in percentage of field goals that are dunks at 18.8 percent (158 of 779 FGs). Somto Cyril paces the “Dunkyard Dawgs” with 66 rim-rattling finishes, which as of Monday ranked No. 2 nationally and was 27 more than any other SEC player.
- Kanon Catchings’ production has increased considerably over the last 11 games. He averaged 8.3 ppg in the first 14 games, but is contributing 13.8 ppg thereafter, including nine double-digit outings.
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