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Georgia Bulldogs crush the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs 65-7 to win second consecutive College Football Playoff National Championship
CNN
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The No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs scored on their first six drives and dominated No. 3 Texas Christian University 65-7 to win their second consecutive College Football Playoff championship game on Monday night in Inglewood, California.
In the convincing win, Heisman Trophy-finalist quarterback Stetson Bennett passed for four touchdowns and ran for two more to lead the Bulldogs (15-0), who became the first team to win back-to-back national titles since Alabama in 2011 and 2012.
Bennett finished 18-of-25 with 304 yards passing in his final collegiate contest. He left the game with 13:25 remaining in the fourth quarter.
Bennett told ESPN, which broadcast the title game, that he was just trying not to cry.
“Champions of the whole damn world,” he said as a struggled to find words to echo his emotions. “I don’t know. I’m just trying to see everybody for the last time, you know, hug everybody.”
Bennett picked up his second championship game offensive most valuable player award, and his six total touchdowns tied the championship game era record set by Joe Burrow with Louisiana State University in 2020.
Georgia built a 38-7 halftime lead, scoring the final 28 points before intermission after TCU’s Max Duggan, the Heisman Trophy runner-up, rushed for a touchdown that made it 10-7 with 5:45 left in the first quarter.
The Bulldogs controlled play and the clock in the half, having the ball for almost 19 of the first 30 minutes and outgaining the Horned Frogs (13-2) 354 yards to just 121.
The onslaught continued in the second half until Georgia head coach Kirby Smart effectively called off the dogs and began using more second-team players in the fourth quarter. By then it was 52-7.
“We wanted our kids to play without fear,” Smart told ESPN. Smart said he told his players that as the top-ranked team in the nation for much of the year they were the hunted, but in this game they would be the hunters. They had only one last chance to do so.
“And we hunted tonight,” he said.
The Bulldogs are the first team to win consecutive titles since the advent of the reformatted College Football Playoff in 2014.
“They had a will to work. They didn’t listen to what everyone said about them,” Smart said referring to a national preseason poll that had Georgia No. 3 and the poll of sports writers for teams in the Southeastern Conference. “And everyone doubted them to start the year and that chip on the shoulder was just big enough to create an edge for our team.”
Georgia’s Ladd McConkey, a sophomore wide receiver, had two touchdown grabs, including a wide-open, 37-yard reception that brought the first six of the Bulldogs’ 55 consecutive points.
Sophomore tight end Brock Bowers, the national player of the year at his position, had one touchdown catch in his seven receptions and 152 yards receiving.
“We certainly didn’t play our best. You gotta give Georgia a ton of credit,” TCU head coach Sonny Dykes said at a postgame news conference. “Those guys came out and played exceptionally well.”
Dykes said he was still extremely proud of his team and said they would learn from this loss.
“Next time we’re on atsga elike this we’ll handle it better,” he said.
The 58-point margin of victory was the largest since college football instituted an official championship game in the 1998 season, and Georgia’s 65 points are the most scored in a championship game.
President Joe Biden tweeted his congratulations to the Bulldogs following their win: “Glory glory, @UniversityofGA. Congrats to the Dawgs on a hard-fought National Championship – and to @TCUFootball for beating the odds all season.
“Georgia, no doubt you made your community proud tonight.”
Georgia Bulldogs cruise to second straight CFP championship
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — There was no epic comeback and no miraculous finish because there was no chance — not when the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs asserted their sheer dominance from the onset and sucked the storybook ending right out from under No. 3 TCU with a 65-7 win in the College Football Playoff National Championship game at SoFi Stadium on Monday night.
In a game that featured two Heisman Trophy finalist quarterbacks, Georgia’s Stetson Bennett piled onto his legacy, leading the Bulldogs to back-to-back national titles for the first time since Alabama accomplished the feat in 2011-12.
And they made it look so easy.
With 13:25 left in the game and Georgia sitting comfortably with a 52-7 lead, Bennett unhooked his chin strap, pulled off his helmet with a smile and went to the sideline, where he was greeted with hugs and high-fives from coaches and teammates for capping his career with the sport’s biggest prize. Bennett accounted for six total touchdowns in the victory, four rushing and two passing.
Georgia beat this scrappy but talented TCU team every which way, using its powerful tight ends for big plays in the passing game, finding holes for long bursts in the running game, and pushing through the Horned Frogs’ offensive line to pressure TCU quarterback Max Duggan into costly mistakes. He threw two interceptions in the first half, including one with 36 seconds remaining that led to another Bennett touchdown pass two plays later, and a resounding 38-7 halftime lead for Georgia. It was the largest halftime lead in a national championship game since the 2002 BCS, when Miami led Nebraska 34-0.
Georgia, having the experience of winning it all just a year ago, looked comfortable and calm, while the Frogs, who finished 5-7 a year ago and were picked to finish seventh in the Big 12, appeared wide-eyed and out of sorts under first-year coach Sonny Dykes.
“You have to give Georgia a ton of credit, they did a tremendous job of getting their team ready to play,” Dykes said. “Those guys came out and played exceptionally well, they’ve got a very good football team, really talented.”
Georgia closed as a 13.5-point favorite, the largest favorite in a national title game since 1998, but TCU, which defied the odds on a weekly basis, had won five games when trailing after halftime this season while capturing the nation’s attention with its funky Hypnotoad and underdog status along the way.
Not this time.
This wasn’t about a fairytale ending. No, this was about what’s beginning at Georgia under Kirby Smart.
“A lot of grit. A lot of toughness. The word we use around our place is connection,” Smart said on the championship podium. “Every one of our guys knows we stay connected, we’re hard to beat.”
Since 1990, the only other schools to win back-to-back national titles are Nebraska (1994-95) and USC (2003-04). The comparisons between where Georgia is heading and what Alabama has done began last season, when the Bulldogs defeated the Tide to win their first national title in 41 years. Now that Georgia has won consecutive championships, there’s an undeniable tilt in the balance of power between the two programs. The debate will heighten on whether Georgia already has usurped the Crimson Tide, who have won six national titles in 12 seasons under Nick Saban, as the most elite program in the SEC.
Smart, who spent nine seasons as Saban’s defensive coordinator at Alabama before he was hired at Georgia, took Saban’s championship blueprint with him to Athens. He has now won five SEC East titles, two SEC championships and two national titles. He has lured in seven top-three signing classes and they were on full display Monday night.
For much of the first half, Bennett was throwing to open receivers without a defender in arm’s reach. He threw only four incompletions and accounted for two passing touchdowns and two rushing touchdowns in the half.
Georgia outgained TCU by 233 yards in the first half, the largest margin in any half of a national championship game since at least the 2004 season. The Bulldogs were shattering national championship records left and right. It was an utter meltdown for the Frogs, who were trying to win the program’s first national title since 1938.
“Really aggressive playing, not holding back anything, we wanted our kids to play without fear,” Smart said. “And all year I told them, I said ‘We ain’t getting hunted guys. … We’re doing the hunting. And hunting season’s almost over. We only got one more chance to hunt, and we hunted tonight.'”
When TCU knocked off No. 2 Michigan in the CFP semifinal at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl, it continued to convert critics into believers. It only took one half for Georgia to make it clear, though, that the gap between the SEC’s most elite program and TCU was as large as the score indicated.
Midway through the third quarter, Georgia had run as many plays (45) as it had points, which explains why the team’s fans in SoFi Stadium seemed as comfortable as the lead they were staring at. Just about everything collapsed for TCU, including its defense in the first half, which allowed its most points in a first half since giving up 38 to Oklahoma in 2017.
Entering the second quarter, Georgia’s players were waving their arms on the field and their white towels on the sideline, gesturing to the fans to get into the game. They did it again at the start of the second half. Georgia’s 17 points were the most scored in the first quarter by a team in a BCS or CFP national championship game. Even with the resounding start, though, there was still a sense that TCU would put up a fight like it always does, and the first quarter was far too early to write off the Frogs. That happened in the second quarter.
TCU carved its identity this season through its relentless ability to find ways to win, but it was an insurmountable task against a program that has forged its identity as the best team in the country.
Again.
Kirby Smart updates injury status of tight end Darnell Washington, other injured Bulldogs
ATLANTA — When you play a war of a football game like Georgia did on Saturday, you’re going to have some bumps and bruises. Georgia knows that, as the Bulldogs saw a number of players go down on Saturday night with injuries.
Darnell Washington left the game in the first quarter with a left ankle injury. He did not return to the game and Smart said he didn’t know if it was a high ankle sprain.
“He tried to go back and couldn’t go back on it. We’ll have to evaluate and see,” Smart said. “The good news is he’s got more than a normal week. I know he’ll do everything he can to get back. He’s headed out west towards where he’s from. It will be important to him to try to get back.”
“We’ve got some good wideouts too, and they have a chip on their shoulder, and they want to make plays,” Smart said. “They have a quarterback that can get them the ball. A lot of those guys have been able to come back. It’s really been my committee when you look at it. You see Arian, A.D., Ladd, all those guys making plays for us in the passing game. Marcus has made big plays.”
Georgia also picked up a number of injuries on the defensive front. Chaz Chambliss left the game with a knee injury he suffered on special teams. Robert Beal later left the game with what appeared to be a hamstring injury. Beal was walking on his own when he was exiting the locker room.
The Bulldogs saw Marvin Jones Jr. and Jalon Walker play more snaps with Beal and Chambliss injured. The Bulldogs are already without Nolan Smith, who tore his pectoral muscle against Florida.
Defensive end Mykel Williams left the game multiple times with what seemed to be a cramping issue. He was able to come back into the game for Georgia.
“We got some guys that got winded in the game. We wanted to play Trezmen and Rian and Marvin had to play,” Smart said. “At one point, we had our third and fourth string guys on special teams that hadn’t played all year. We’re at the point in a long season where it’s accumulating, and you’re having to play a lot of guys who maybe haven’t played.”
Georgia will get an extra two days of rest before its next game, as the Bulldogs take on TCU in Los Angeles on Jan. 9. The Horned Frogs picked up a 51-45 win over Michigan on Saturday.
Georgia coach Kirby Smart updates injury status
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Georgia Bulldogs defeat Ohio State Buckeyes to advance to the College Football Playoff Championship
CNN
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The Georgia Bulldogs have advanced to the College Football Playoff Championship after defeating the Ohio State Buckeyes 42-41 in the second semifinal College Football Playoff game Saturday.
Trailing by six points late in the 4th quarter, defending national champion Georgia mounted a 72-yard drive capped by quarterback Stetson Bennett’s third touchdown pass of the game to take the lead with 54 seconds remaining.
Ohio State used that time to drive the ball into field goal range, setting up a 50-yard attempt for kicker Noah Ruggles. But Ruggles hooked the kick left, and the Bulldogs escaped with the 1-point win.
Georgia is the first team to come back from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit in College Football Playoff history, according to the NCAA.
Earlier Saturday, No. 3 Texas Christian University’s Horned Frogs came into the first semifinal game as underdogs and pulled off a major upset, delivering a thrilling 51-45 win against No. 2 Michigan Wolverines.
The Horned Frogs, who began the season outside the Top 25, defeated the previously unbeaten Michigan Wolverines 51-45 in the highest scoring Fiesta Bowl ever. The Big Ten champions entered the game favored by more than a touchdown, but TCU never trailed in the game en route to a shot at the national championship.
Heisman runner-up Max Duggan threw for 225 yards and four total touchdowns, while running back Emari Demarcado added 150 yards on the ground at the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona.
The Bulldogs will face the Horned Frogs Monday, January 9, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, for the Championship game.
TCU will be seeking its first national championship since 1938 and the first for a Big 12 team since 2005, while Georgia will be aiming to be the first back-to-back national champion since Alabama in 2011 and 2012 and the first repeat champion in the College Football Playoff era.
Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Gonzaga Bulldogs Live Score and Stats – December 17, 2022 Gametracker
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Brandon Miller misses three point jump shot
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Charles Bediako offensive rebound
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Mark Sears misses three point jump shot
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Charles Bediako offensive rebound
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Charles Bediako turnover (lost ball) (Anton Watson steals)
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Charles Bediako shooting foul (Anton Watson draws the foul)
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Brandon Miller shooting foul (Julian Strawther draws the foul)
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Rylan Griffen misses three point jump shot
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Drew Timme defensive rebound
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Charles Bediako blocks Julian Strawther’s two point layup
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Drew Timme makes two point jump shot (Hunter Sallis assists)
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Hunter Sallis shooting foul (Rylan Griffen draws the foul)
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Drew Timme makes two point hook shot (Ben Gregg assists)
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Rylan Griffen misses three point jump shot
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Darius Miles defensive rebound
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Darius Miles offensive foul
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Darius Miles turnover (offensive foul)
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Anton Watson offensive rebound
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Drew Timme misses two point jump shot
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Brandon Miller defensive rebound
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Mark Sears misses three point jump shot
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Hunter Sallis defensive rebound
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Mark Sears misses three point jump shot
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Drew Timme misses two point jump shot
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Anton Watson misses two point jump shot
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Malachi Smith offensive rebound
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Anton Watson misses three point jump shot
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Charles Bediako defensive rebound
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Efton Reid III personal foul
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Malachi Smith misses two point jump shot
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Noah Clowney defensive rebound
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Mark Sears misses two point layup
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Rasir Bolton shooting foul (Jaden Bradley draws the foul)
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Julian Strawther personal foul (Brandon Miller draws the foul)
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Rasir Bolton misses two point jump shot
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Noah Gurley defensive rebound
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Efton Reid III personal foul (Brandon Miller draws the foul)
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Rasir Bolton makes three point jump shot (Drew Timme assists)
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Noah Gurley makes two point layup
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Anton Watson makes two point dunk (Drew Timme assists)
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Anton Watson shooting foul (Jaden Bradley draws the foul)
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Rasir Bolton misses three point jump shot
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Noah Gurley shooting foul (Drew Timme draws the foul)
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Drew Timme makes regular free throw 1 of 1
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Jahvon Quinerly turnover (bad pass) (Malachi Smith steals)
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Rasir Bolton misses three point jump shot
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Brandon Miller misses two point jump shot
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Charles Bediako offensive rebound
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Charles Bediako turnover (lost ball) (Malachi Smith steals)
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Jaden Bradley blocks Rasir Bolton’s two point jump shot
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Charles Bediako defensive rebound
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Mark Sears misses two point layup
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Anton Watson defensive rebound
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Hunter Sallis misses two point jump shot
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Mark Sears defensive rebound
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Noah Clowney misses three point jump shot
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Drew Timme defensive rebound
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Noah Clowney personal foul (Drew Timme draws the foul)
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Drew Timme makes regular free throw 1 of 2
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Drew Timme misses regular free throw 2 of 2
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Noah Clowney defensive rebound
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Brandon Miller turnover (lost ball) (Malachi Smith steals)
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Gonzaga Bulldogs senior Andrew Nembhard to declare for 2022 NBA draft
Gonzaga senior Andrew Nembhard will declare for the 2022 NBA draft, he told ESPN on Friday.
“This is my time,” Nembhard said. “It’s time to let the young guys take over the program. In this draft I feel like I’m among the top. There are not many point guards in this class that can impact the game in a winning sense in the way I can. I’ve gotten feedback and did the things the NBA told me I needed to do to take the next step. I’m ready.”
Nembhard, the No. 50 prospect in the ESPN 100, was named first-team All-WCC after averaging 11.8 points, 5.8 assists and 1.6 assists for the Zags, who were the NCAA tournament’s No. 1 overall seed. Nembhard posted career highs in every category this year, including shooting 38% for 3s and 87% from the free throw line.
“Going into my senior year I did a lot of offseason work, getting my body right, improving my quickness and speed. Early in my career I was looked at as a guy that couldn’t play fast; I think I showed a different side of me this season. When the opportunity presented itself, I showed I could make plays and carry my team offensively, including as a scorer. I’m super excited to show teams more. How lethal I can be in pick-and-roll situations. Also in isolation situations I’m growing. My game is getting a lot better.”
Nembhard was the engine behind one of the fastest-paced and most efficient offenses in college basketball, tasked with providing a steady hand alongside All-American frontcourt players Drew Timme and Chet Holmgren. When needed, he also showed he can be a primary scorer, posting 24 points in a nonconference win over UCLA and spearheading a come-from-behind NCAA tournament victory over Memphis in the round of 32, scoring 23 points and making several clutch baskets down the stretch.
“I’m a winning guy, a true point guard, so my natural inclination is to get everyone involved. I’d always look at the matchups, Drew usually had mismatches, and we needed to get Chet the ball so he would feel good and step up when we need him. I showed that throughout the season, when guys are getting bogged down, I can be more assertive offensively, shoot from deep, get into the lane and score, and make plays off the bounce. The balance we had between passing and scoring was really good.
At 6-foot-5, 193 pounds, Nembhard has excellent size for a point guard and became an increasingly prolific and consistent perimeter shooter as his career moved on, getting closer to what many NBA teams look for in a backup when paired with the instincts and smarts he brings defensively. In Gonzaga’s final six games of the season, he played 237 of a potential 240 minutes, being virtually indispensable for what many considered to be the best team in college basketball.
“I needed to do a lot of ballhandling for our team and carry a big load on offense, which is why sometimes you’d see me only guarding the other team’s third-best player. I’ve always been a good defender, and it’s something I’ve always taken pride in. I guarded power forwards at Florida, and also point guards. That’s what will get me on the floor early on. I’m sneakily stronger than a lot of people think. I’m 195 pounds now, almost 200. Where I’ll be very useful is guarding 1-3 and even some small-ball 4s.”
A five-star recruit in high school, Nembhard started his career at Florida but elected to transfer after his sophomore year. He played a significant role on the team that lost in the national championship to Baylor in 2021, rarely coming off the floor in Gonzaga’s big games once again.
“When I took that year to transfer, my biggest thing was I wanted to win games. I did it in high school and at the FIBA level. I wanted to be in that winning culture, that’s where I excel.”
Born in Toronto, Nembhard has represented Canada at the national team level in every age group, starting at the FIBA Americas U16 Championship, continuing at the FIBA U17 World Cup and the FIBA Americas U18 Championship, and even seeing rotation minutes at the senior level in the 2019 FIBA World Cup in China, a team that was coached by Nick Nurse of the Toronto Raptors.
Having entered the NBA draft in 2019 and 2020, he cannot withdraw his name from consideration after declaring for a third time, according to league rules, making him ineligible to return to college basketball despite the extra year of eligibility the NCAA granted all players in October 2020.
“Initially I can bring backup point guard minutes to a team. A player like Tyus Jones — I can emulate his role, bring a high assist-to-turnover ratio, get guys open shots, hit open 3s and understand the game. I can see myself in a similar role. I can give a team a different look off the bench, pushing the pace in transition, getting guys open shots. With the way the NBA spacing is, that’s only going to help me. Every kid wants to go first round — that would be a blessing — but a win for me on draft night would be going to a team that I can make an impact on. A team that I can fit into and win games.”
The NBA draft combine will be May 16-22 in Chicago, and the draft will be June 23 at the Barclays Center in New York City.
Jonathan Givony is an NBA draft expert and the founder and co-owner of DraftExpress.com, a private scouting and analytics service used by NBA, NCAA and international teams.
Norway bans breeding Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, bulldogs
They may look cute, but Norway has ruled they’re a product of cruelty — and they’re no longer allowed to be bred.
On Monday, Norway’s Oslo District Court made a unanimous, landmark ruling that breeding bulldogs and Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are a violation of the Norwegian Animal Welfare Act section 25 and will no longer be tolerated.
The ruling was prompted by a case brought in November 2021 by Animal Protection Norway out of concern for the dog breeds’ numerous, critical health issues.
“The man-made health problems of the bulldog have been known since the early 20th century. This verdict is many years overdue,” said Åshild Roaldset, the CEO of Animal Protection Norway in a post published by the group following the ruling. “For several decades, sick dogs have been bred in violation of Norwegian law. Our dogs [have] been victims of systematic and organized betrayal of our four-legged friends. Today it has been confirmed that this is illegal.”
The ruling is not a blanket ban on the breeds, however, but a nuanced “legal framework for animal breeding,” noted lawyer Emanuel Feinberg in the post. Thus, cross-breeding of the beloved — if often sickly — dog types is still possible and permitted.
“A conviction does not imply a ban on serious breeding of Bulldog or Cavalier, as serious and scientifically based cross-breeding could be a good alternative,” the judgment stated. The nation has the infrastructure to make more humane cross-breeding a reality, Animal Protection Norway added, noting the technology also exists.
To aid in the transition to better breeding tactics, the Animal Protection Norway has proposed more regulated use of temperament, traits and health data in breeding, as well as the use of chip marking. Without such traceability, “it is impossible” for dog breeding to be effectively supervised, Roaldset added.
“This is a day of celebration for our dogs! The Animal Welfare Act is intended to protect animals from the irrational actions of humans, and it has done so today. This is about the dogs’ right to feel good,” said Roaldset.
Georgia Bulldogs leading rushers Zamir White, James Cook and top tackler Lewis Cine declare for NFL draft
Georgia will be without its leading tackler and both of its leading rushers when it tries to defend its national championship in 2022.
Junior Zamir White, the team’s leading rusher this past season, announced Friday that he’s entering the NFL draft. Senior James Cook announced earlier this week that he is leaving with one season of eligibility remaining.
Meanwhile, Lewis Cine, who is the No. 4 safety available for the draft, according to Mel Kiper Jr., also announced on Friday he is entering the NFL draft.
White, who overcame two knee injuries and myriad health problems as a child, ran for 856 yards with 11 touchdowns this past season. White, from Laurinburg, North Carolina, ranks 15th in school history with 2,043 rushing yards and led the Bulldogs in rushing in each of the past two seasons.
White ran for 84 yards with one score in Georgia’s 33-18 victory against Alabama in Monday night’s College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T, which ended the Bulldogs’ 41-year drought without a national title.
“This season was an absolute thrill from start to finish and bringing a national championship to Athens was the ultimate reward,” White wrote on his Instagram account. “I am so proud and feel so blessed to be a part of this team. … These are memories I will never forget and will surely last a lifetime.”
Cook, the younger brother of Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook, was one of Georgia’s most versatile playmakers this past season. He ran for 728 yards with seven touchdowns and had 27 catches for 284 yards with four scores. ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. ranks Cook as the No. 9 running back available for the draft.
Georgia will bring back three running backs in 2022 who ran for at least 200 yards: Kenny McIntosh, Kendall Milton and Daijun Edwards. Milton, the No. 12 running back in the 2020 ESPN 300, missed much of this season with a knee injury. In December, the Bulldogs signed tailback Branson Robinson, from Madison, Mississippi, who is ranked the No. 2 running back in the ESPN 300.
Cine, a junior from Cedar Hill, Texas, had 73 tackles and a team-high nine pass breakups this season. He was named defensive MVP of the CFP championship game against Alabama with seven tackles and one pass breakup.
“I will forever cherish the friendship and brotherhood I built with my teammates, through the highs and the lows,” Cine wrote on Twitter. “We accomplished something special, and it will never be taken from us. Our bloodline is UGA and we are Dawgs forever.”
The Bulldogs will bring back starting safety Christopher Smith who announced he is returning next year.
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