TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The No. 24/22 Alabama men’s basketball team enters this week atop the Southeastern Conference standings and face a tough road test, Wednesday night at Georgia. The two squads will tipoff at 5:30 p.m. CT Wednesday night at Stegeman Coliseum.

Alabama’s Mark Sears was named the SEC Player of the Week, coming off a week where he averaged 21.5 points, 6.5 assists and 4.0 rebounds in Alabama’s two wins over No. 8 Auburn and against LSU. The Crimson Tide’s offense continues to set program records, setting a new mark with six 100-point games this season and averaging 89.7 points per game, which ranks No. 1 in the country.

The Broadcast

Wednesday’s game is set for a 5:30 p.m. CT tipoff and will be aired on the SEC Network with Eric Frede (play-by-play) and Pat Bradley (analyst) on the call.

The radio broadcast can be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network with Chris Stewart (play-by-play) and Bryan Passink (analyst) on the call, while Tom Stipe (engineer) is turning the dials. The pregame show will begin one hour prior to tipoff.

Notes You Need To Know

• Alabama is ranked in the AP Top-25 (No. 24) and USA Today Coaches Poll (No. 22) for the first time since Nov. 27
• Alabama has scored 100 points in eight SEC games during the tenure of Nate Oats. The rest of the SEC has 10 100-point games during that span.
• Mark Sears was named SEC Player of the Week for the second time this season and is the second SEC player (Tennessee’s Dalton Knecht) to earn the honor multiple times on the year
• Sears is one of four players in Division I and the only Power 5 player that has 395 points, 75 assists, 75 rebounds and 45 three-pointers this season
• Sears ranks No. 1 in the SEC in scoring (20.0 ppg), No. 5 in field goal percentage (52.0) and No. 7 in assists (3.9 apg) 
• Sears (21.1 ppg) is one of four SEC players (Tennessee’s Dalton Knecht, 28.0 ppg, Texas A&M’s Wade Taylor IV, 24.4 ppg and Kentucky’s Antonio Reeves, 20.3 ppg) that is averaging over 20 points per game during conference play
• The Crimson Tide owns the No. 1-ranked offense, according to KenPom and the No. 1 scoring offense in the country (89.7 ppg)
• The Tide (No. 7) is one of the three SEC teams currently ranked in the top-10 in the NET Rankings
• Alabama has scored 1,793 points this season, the most any UA team has scored in the first 20 games of the season, surpassing last year’s team (1,663 points)
• Alabama is one of three schools (Purdue and Wright State) in the country that has two players on its current roster that has scored at least 1,700 points throughout their career in Sears (1,753 points) and Estrada (1,732 points)

About Georgia

• Georgia is currently 14-6 overall and 4-3 in SEC play – two victories shy of matching the Bulldogs’ overall and SEC win totals from a year ago with 11 regular-season outings remaining
• Georgia is 11-1 in games at Stegeman Coliseum this season. During Georgia’s 10-game winning streak at home this season, which was snapped by Tennessee, UGA matched the seventh-longest home winning-streak ever and their fifth-longest since moving into the Coliseum in 1964.
• Georgia ranks No. 20 nationally in bench points at 31.4 ppg. The Bulldogs’ reserves have won the bench point battle in 18 of 20 games to date and currently sport a scoring margin of +292 (+14.6 ppg).
• Georgia is one of three teams with a higher scoring offense in SEC games over non-conference play. Three Bulldogs have upped their production significantly in league outings – Silas Demary Jr. from 8.5-13.8 ppg (+5.3), Justin Hill from 8.5-10.3 ppg (+1.8) and Jabri Abdur-Rahim from 13.2-14.8 ppg (+1.6).
• After compiling an assist-to-turnover ratio of 0.93 in the first eight games, Georgia’s effort has improved considerably to 1.20 in the last 11 outings.
• The Bulldogs are converting 17.8 free throws per game this season, which ranks No. 13 in Division I

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