ATHENS – Georgia sent a message to the SEC on Tuesday, upsetting No. 6 Kentucky 82-69 before an electric Stegeman Coliseum. The Bulldogs (13-2, 1-1 SEC) got their first top-10 win since January of 2020, proving they can handle the SEC’s elite competition in their home opener of conference play.

The Tuesday night home victory — the highest-ranked win for White the past three seasons — is the vision athletic director Josh Brooks had when he hired White away from Florida. Indeed, Georgia fans now have reason to keep up with Joe Lunardi’s popular ESPN “bracketology,” an ongoing projection of the NCAA tournament field.

Live updates from Stegeman Coliseum in Athens as the sixth-ranked Kentucky Wildcats play the Georgia Bulldogs in SEC college basketball.

Georgia men's basketball cruised to a 82-69 victory over #6 Kentucky Tuesday evening. In what was a magical night in Stegman Coliseum, UGA basketball picked up its biggest win of the season so far against 6th-ranked Kentucky.

Mark Pope’s UK team fell behind by 13 points at halftime and eventually lost by that same margin, 82-69, to Georgia in the Wildcats’ first SEC road game of the season.