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Important Home Tilt With Georgia Could Pull Commodores Even In League Play 2/25/2005 In its final weekend home game of the regular season, Vanderbilt welcomes visiting Georgia to Memorial Gymnasium Saturday with the Commodores needing a victory to pull their Southeastern Conference league mark even at 7-7. The game starts at 3 p.m. There is no television broadcast. Vanderbilt (16-11, 6-7 SEC) is coming off a hard-fought 69-61 setback at Florida on Wednesday. The Commodores trailed throughout most of the game, grabbed a pair of brief one-point leads inside the final 10 minutes of the game, but could never The Commodores can tie the school record for home wins in a season at 15 with a victory on Saturday. The mark was set by last year’s Vanderbilt squad which went 15-2 at Memorial Gymnasium. Vanderbilt leads all SEC members with a 29-4 home mark since the start of the 2003-04 campaign. Georgia (8-16, 2-11 SEC) comes to Nashville Saturday after dropping a 76-62 home contest against Mississippi State on Wednesday. The Bulldogs defeated Vanderbilt, 68-59, on Jan. 22 for their first league win. Georgia’s second SEC win came on Feb. 19 at home against Auburn, 57-45. Levi Stukes leads the Bulldogs with 15.2 points per game. Vanderbilt leads the all-time series 75-44. The home team has won the last eight games in the series. The Commodores play their regular season home finale Wednesday against South Carolina. |
