The Georgia Bulldogs outlasted a scrappy Georgia Southern team Monday night at Stegeman Coliseum by a final score of 73-64.
The Dawgs were led to victory by a duo of freshmen. Freshman forward Toumani Camara shot a perfect 8/8 for 16 points and tacked on 7 rebounds and an assist to top it off. Going with that was Anthony Edwards’ 23 points on 50% shooting, as well as 3 rebounds and 4 assists.
The 16 points out of Camara were his collegiate career high and Edwards remains the #1 freshman scorer in the country with his 23 piece.
Georgia Southern put up a fight for the entirety of the game. Their zone defense was working until Edwards closed it out with a few big buckets late down the stretch in the 2nd half. Georgia Southern’s Ike Smith led all players with 25 points on the night.
With Georgia down 60-59 and under 4:30 left in the game, Edwards had a consecutive assist, dunk, layup, dunk and dunk without Georgia Southern scoring to give the Dawgs a 69-60 lead and close out the game.
Here are two of his dunks from that clutch 2:30 stretch:
Edwards has been special all year, living up to the hype that has been surrounding him. Right now he is a projected top-5 pick in the 2020 NBA Draft.
UGA head coach Tom Crean credited freshman guard Sahvir Wheeler and Toumani Camara on their defensive effort in the game. “We won the game because of what we did on defense. Sahvir and Toumani didn’t come out of the game at all in the second half, two freshmen just rallied it up in a big way, we earned these two victories.” said Crean in a postgame interview.
The Bulldogs advanced to 8-3 on the season with the win and will face Austin Peay at home next on December 30th.
