For a fan base that might not carry much craze about its basketball team, Georgia supporters gave Ashton Hagans a treatment similar to that of a star football player who is despised between the Sanford Stadium hedges.
This jeer fest was around the Kentucky freshman who was previously slated to play Tuesday night’s game at Stegeman Coliseum in the red-and-black. Instead, he was there for the powerhouse program that stampeded the Bulldogs 69-49. Hagans heard a chorus of boos in pregame introductions and each time he got a touch. When the 6-foot-3 guard stepped to the free-throw line, a repeated echo of “traitor” rung throughout a sellout crowd.