The good news for Georgia’s women’s basketball program is that a strong season has earned the Lady Dawgs home-court advantage to open to the NCAA tournament.
The bad? They may as well be in the tournament’s version of the ‘group of death.’ All four teams playing in the first two rounds at Stegeman Coliseum are ranked in the Top 25.
Georgia (25-6), seeded fourth, opens play at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday in Stegeman Coliseum against one of the hottest mid-major programs in the country, 13th-seeded Mercer. The Bears, coached by former Georgia player and assistant Susie Gardner, are in the field for the first time in school history and have won 27 games in a row, enough to earn them a No.