Georgia Basketball to Play Oregon in Las Vegas, per Report

The Georgia and Oregon basketball teams will play at T-Mobile Arena on Nov.6.

Head Coach Mike White spent the early portion of the offseason reshaping Georgia’s basketball roster heading into his second season leading the program. Coming off an initial campaign as Georgia’s head coach in which he improved the Bulldogs’ record by 10-wins and racked up six times as many conference wins as his predecessor Tom Crean did in 2022, White has already raised the profile of the Georgia basketball program. However, with the addition of five veteran players from the transfer portal and a trio of top-100 caliber high school prospects, White has positioned the Bulldogs to take further strides towards national relevance in the coming season.

In a sign of the modest but palpable rise in the program’s national standing, Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports reported today that the Bulldogs will play Oregon in T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Nov. 6 as part of a double-header that will also feature a game between Kansas State and USC. While Georgia’s 2023-24 schedule has not been officially released, the matchup with Oregon will likely serve as the Bulldogs’ season-opener.

NEWS: USC will face Kansas State and Oregon will play Georgia on November 6th in Las Vegas, according to multiple sources.

The matchup between the Trojans and Wildcats will be the first ever college game for USC freshman Bronny James.https://t.co/psyAAn5S09

— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) June 1, 2023

The game between the Bulldogs and Ducks will also feature an interesting subplot as Kario Oquendo transferred to Oregon to play for Dana Altman in April after spending the past two seasons in Athens as part of the Georgia program.

Former Georgia guard Kario Oquendo goes up for a dunk in a game inside Stegeman Coliseum. Oquendo will face his old team next season when the Bulldogs face Oregon in Las Vegas on Nov.6. 

Georgia and Oregon have only faced each other once on the hard court with the Ducks defeating the Bulldogs 87-74 on Dec. 20, 1975 in the IU Classic played in Bloomington, Indiana.

The matchup with Oregon is the latest addition to Georgia’s 2023-24 non-conference slate. The Bulldogs are slated to host Wake Forest on Nov.10 in the second leg of a home-and-home series. The Bulldogs fell to the Demon Deacons 81-71 in Winston-Salem last season. The following month, Georgia will host North Florida on Dec.22 and Alabama A&M on Dec.30. Georgia and Georgia Tech will renew their rivalry in Athens with a date still to be announced. 

Georgia will also be playing in the Baha Mar Bahamas Hoops Championship scheduled to be held at the Baha Mar Convention Center in Nassau, Bahamas from Friday, Nov.17 to Sunday, Nov.19. The Bulldogs will be joined in the tournament by Miami, Providence, and Kansas State who all three earned berths to the NCAA Tournament last season with Kansas State falling to Florida Atlantic in the Elite 8 and Miami making a run to the Final Four where the Hurricanes were defeated by eventual national champion Connecticut.

Georgia finished the 2022-23 season 16-16 overall and 6-12 in conference play. The Bulldogs closed out the non-conference portion of their schedule 11-3 and got off to a hot 3-1 start in SEC-play before eventually fading down the stretch, losing their final six games of the season.