With every win in the NCAA Tournament by 16th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson, 15th-seeded Princeton and 13th-seeded Furman, the question looms larger over the Georgia men’s basketball team.
How can schools with far less resources, budgets and local recruiting talent continue to not only make the NCAA Tournament — a place the Bulldogs haven’t been since 2015 — but win a game, something Georgia hasn’t done since 2002?
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