Women’s Basketball Travels to Georgia for Thursday Night Contest

Thursday, January 11

Athens, Ga.

6 p.m.CT

Alabama

Georgia

Photo by: Crimson Tide Photos / UA Athletics

Women’s Basketball Travels to Georgia for Thursday Night Contest

1/10/2024 7:44:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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The Crimson Tide and Lady Bulldogs will tipoff on SEC Network+ in Athens, Ga.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama women's basketball team will travel to Athens, Ga., for a road contest against Georgia on Thursday night. The Crimson Tide and Lady Bulldogs are set to tipoff at 6 p.m. CT inside Stegeman Coliseum and will air on SEC Network+

Broadcast Information

Matt Stewart (play-by-play) and Anne Marie Armstrong (analyst) will be on the call for the television broadcast
The radio broadcast can be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network with Roger Hoover on the call

About Alabama

Alabama (14-3, 1-1 SEC) will enter Thursday's contest coming off a 79-64 road win against Missouri in Columbia, Mo.
The Crimson Tide shot 50 percent from the three-point line (15-30) and 72.7 percent from the charity stripe to claim its first Southeastern Conference win of the season
Sarah Ashlee Barker (23), Aaliyah Nye (23) and Jessica Timmons (15) led the Alabama during Sunday's win
In the NET rankings, the Crimson Tide ranks in the top 25 overall (No. 25) and fourth in the conference
Alabama has scored 1,207 points (75.6 ppg) thus far this year, which ranks third in the SEC
Alabama is No. 11 in the nation and third in the SEC in scoring defense (52.6)
Essence Cody continues to pace the Tide in rebounds (6.6 rpg) and blocks (1.9 bpg) which ranks fifth in the SEC
Sarah Ashlee Barker leads Alabama with 256 points (16.0 ppg) and ranks fourth in the conference in field goal percentage with .547
Aaliyah Nye continues to lay down threes as she leads the team and conference in three-point FG made with 57 and sits third in the nation

About Georgia

In the opening week of SEC play, Georgia (10-5, 1-1 SEC) split the first two games - beating Texas A&M, 54-50, in the conference opener and dropping its game at Arkansas, 83-43 on Sunday
Georgia ranks third in the conference in holding opponents to 34 percent from the field
The Lady Bulldogs' Javyn Nicholson posts the third most double-doubles in the SEC, while riding a seven-game streak
Nicholson also leads Georgia in scoring (16.6 ppg) and rebounding (9.8 rpg)

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