After taking down No. 6 Kentucky on Tuesday night, the Georgia Bulldogs pulled off another upset with a 72-62 win over No. 17 Oklahoma on Saturday.
The win gives Georgia back-to-back wins over AP Top 25 teams and keeps Oklahoma winless in SEC play.
The Bulldogs pulled the upset despite shooting just 3-of-17 (17.6%) from beyond the arc. Sophomore guard Silas Demary Jr. had 10 points, with eight of those points coming from the charity stripe.
Demary Jr. put the Sooners on a poster with this slam — his only field goal of the game — early in the action to give Georgia a 6-2 lead.
Although the Sooners led 36-33 at the break, it was not a good second-half performance. Oklahoma was outscored 39-26 and shot just 25.9% from deep the entire game. There were 28 fouls committed by the Sooners.
While four players scored in double figures, Oklahoma’s leading scorer Jeremiah Fears had a season-low two points on 1-of-11 shooting. During Oklahoma’s three-game losing streak to open conference play, Fears has shot a combined 10-of-34. If the Sooners are going to contend in a loaded SEC, it needs Fears to be at his best and find a way to maintain a second-half lead after blowing a 51-33 advantage against No. 10 Texas A&M on Wednesday.
After a 13-0 start, Oklahoma (13-3, 0-3 SEC) finds itself in need of a win to keep pace in the SEC. That next opportunity comes on Wednesday when the Sooners host Texas in the first SEC meeting between the two teams.
The road only gets tougher for Georgia (14-2, 2-1 SEC) as it heads into back-to-back games against the current top two teams in the country. The Bulldogs travel to Knoxville to face No. 1 Tennessee on Wednesday before returning home to host No. 2 Auburn next Saturday.
If Georgia keeps winning the rebounding advantage, which it did against Kentucky and Oklahoma, it is going to be difficult to slow down the rest of the way.
