Georgia Stuns No. 5 Vanderbilt, 76-74

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ATHENS, Ga. — Sophomore guard Dani Carnegie led all scorers with 29 points – her 12th game over 20 points this season – to guide the Georgia Lady Bulldog basketball team to a 76-74 win against No. 5 Vanderbilt Sunday inside Stegeman Coliseum.

Notable

Georgia improves to 20-6 overall, picking up its 20th win quicker than any Lady Bulldog team since the 2017-18 season. Georgia has now defeated three top 20 opponents this season, with victories against Ole Miss, Kentucky and Vanderbilt.
The win marks Georgia's first victory against a top 5 opponent since 2021, when the team knocked off No. 2 NC State. It is Georgia's first triumph against a top 5 opponent inside Stegeman Coliseum since Jan. 21, 2010, when the Lady Bulldogs beat No. 3 Tennessee, 53-50.
The Lady Bulldogs led for over 25 minutes on Sunday and built as much as a 14-point advantage in the second quarter.
In addition to Carnegie, Mia Woolfolk (19) and Rylie Theuerkauf (10) scored in double figures. Woolfolk scored 11 of Georgia's 20 fourth-quarter points, while Theuerkauf recorded her sixth-straight game in double figures.
SEC and National Player of the Year candidate Mikayla Blakes scored 27 points, 19 of which came from the free-throw line. Vanderbilt finished 20-of-22 from the charity stripe as a team.
Vanderbilt's Justine Pissott scored 23 points off five 3-pointers.
The Lady Bulldogs shot 56 percent from the field, the highest percentage for Georgia against an SEC foe this year.

Quotes:

Coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson

On getting a top-5 win…
"I don't even look at it like that. I look at it as they are finally listening to what I'm saying about how talented they are. We can't use 'we're so young' anymore, right? We're in February now, so we had a really good defensive game plan coming in. We just had to get them back and locked in. I think I just heard Danny say it, we have got to stay consistent. Consistency for us is really key. We've been up and down with the game, so we have got to keep being consistent."

On defensive improvements…
"We'll watch film from the last game and we didn't play defense the way we should play defense. I think any winning team in the country plays defense. If you listen to anybody talk, you have to play defense in the SEC otherwise you're going to lose. We had a really good game plan on Mikayla [Blakes.] Some of them got shots off, but she didn't get her typical threes, the kid can play. We're always going to harp on defense and any really good team in the country is going to harp on defense."

Mia Woolfolk
#33 | Forward | Sophomore

On her fourth quarter performance…
"Honestly, it was my mindset that was working for me: knowing that if we play how we can, we can do whatever we want. Now that we're in that position, before the quarter all I know is I got to work."

What getting a win like this means…
" It's amazing going into this like you said, just like the postseason, with some momentum, because we still have some heavy-hitters coming up, and this is one off the notch."

Dani Carnegie
#3 | Guard | Sophomore

On what helped to get the upset…
"Our togetherness, We locked in on one goal, and that was to win, and we knew we had to play defense."

The crowd's impact on the win…
"It was amazing, we are a team that plays off of energy, and we just love that, we love the togetherness, the crowd, the community, how they back us up. They fight for us, so we have to fight for them so they can show out for us."

What's Next

The Lady Bulldogs will be in Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, GA on Thursday, Feb 19., against No. 10 Oklahoma Sooners. The game is available to watch on SEC Network, tipoff is set for 6:30 p.m.

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