ATHENS, Ga. – The Basketball Hall of Fame may never request a video of Georgia’s 57-53 overtime victory over Tennessee inside the Bulldogs’ Stegeman Coliseum.
That tends to happen when the winning team shoots 35 percent from the floor, the losing team turns the ball over 20 times and the two squads combine to miss 30 of 34 3-pointers.
Just don’t try telling the winners that their first Southeastern Conference victory of the year in their fourth league contest wasn’t suitable for framing.
“Anytime you get a win,” said Bulldog sophomore forward Marcus Thornton after his first game back from knee surgery, “It’s beautiful.”
The most beautiful thing about this game was that the five-minute overtime period gave the 7,307 fans in attendance a chance to forget the futile 40 minutes that had gone before it.