Hot-shooting Georgia uses balanced attack to crush Jacksonville

Dakota Leffew scored a team-high 16 points off the bench, including four 3-pointers, to help lead the Georgia Bulldogs to a 102-56 drubbing of the Jacksonville Dolphins in Athens, Ga., on Saturday.

Silas Demary Jr. and Tyrin Lawrence each added 14 for the Bulldogs (7-1), who won their second straight game. Somto Cyril and Dylan James had 13 apiece off the bench for Georgia, while Asa Newell scored 12 points. Georgia shot 66.7 percent from the field and made 14 3-pointers. Jacksonville hit just 35.1 percent of its field-goal attempts.

Kendall Munson and Zach Bell each led Jacksonville (4-4) with 11 points. Chris Arias chipped in eight points off the bench for the Dolphins, who have lost two of their past three games. Jacksonville's leading scorer this season, Robert McCray V (17.4 points per game), was held to just three points.

Georgia used a 15-0 run, which included a four-point play by Blue Cain, to jump out to a 17-2 lead with 12:50 left in the first half.

The Bulldogs' cushion then ballooned to 34-9 at the 6:19 mark after six straight points from Newell.

Cyril's dunk gave Georgia a 53-25 lead with 58 seconds left in the opening half, but Bell and Munson each knocked down two free throws, trimming Jacksonville's halftime deficit to 53-29. Lawrence led Georgia with 10 first-half points, while Bell and Munson each scored six to pace the Dolphins in the opening half.

Donovan Rivers' layup cut Georgia's lead to 21 with 14:59 remaining in the second half, but Demary's 3-pointer capped an 11-0 run to push the Bulldogs to a 72-40 advantage with 11:47 left.

Jacksonville didn't make another field goal until Munson's midrange jumper with 8:02 left. During that span, Georgia expanded its lead to 83-43, which included James' back-to-back triples.

Justin Abson scored back-to-back buckets inside to push Georgia's point total to 102, its most since a 105-102 overtime loss to Alabama in Feb. 2020.

--Field Level Media