After taking a bite of another opponent on the road, Georgia basketball coach Mike White saw a technical glitch during a late-night Zoom press conference as a chance to dig into a celebratory postgame snack.

“Y’all go to sleep,” White said. “Pizza time.”

First, there were still more questions to answer about a Bulldogs team that had just snagged another win in an opponents’ arena.

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This time, it was 74-69 Tuesday night at South Carolina, a place where Georgia had not won since 2016. The Bulldogs rallied from nine down with under 14 minutes to go to improve to 3-0 on the road this season.

“Huge,” White said. “Our biggest win of the year. South Carolina is an NCAA tournament team.”

Some Georgia players waved goodbye to Gamecock fans at the end of a game that finished after 11:30 p.m.

Georgia entered the season having lost 23 of its last 24 road games, but it heads to Kentucky, No. 8 in the AP Poll and No. 10 in the USA Today Sports Coaches Poll, for a 6 p.m. tilt Saturday looking to stay unbeaten in true road games.

“Road dawgs,” Georgia leading scorers Jabri Abdur-Rahim and Noah Thomasson each posted on X, formerly Twitter, after the latest win.

The Bulldogs are one of five teams nationally that are 3-0 or better on the road this season. North Carolina and Oregon are also 3-0 and Grand Canyon and Saint Mary’s are 4-0.

“We’re one of the teams in the SEC that’s to be reckoned with,” freshman guard Silas Demary, who had 15 points, 7 rebounds, 2 blocks and 2 steals, said on Georgia’s postgame radio show. “I feel we can be in the top of the SEC. I feel like a lot of people underlook us.”

Maybe not for too much longer.

Georgia is 13-4, 3-1 in the SEC, tied for third in the SEC standings behind Alabama and Auburn.

The Bulldogs got their first coveted Quad 1 win of the season and bumped up from No. 83 to No. 78 in the NET rankings. That’s still 11^th in the SEC, but Kentucky (13-3, 3-1) offers another Quad 1 opportunity in Rupp Arena.

Georgia has won three straight road games for the first time since beating Alabama, Ole Miss and Auburn in the 2014-2015 season. That’s the last season Georgia didn’t have a losing SEC road record (6-3) and the last season it reached the NCAA tournament.

Georgia got big contributions off its bench — outscoring the Gamecocks 32-13 — including a jump hook in the paint with 1:40 to go from center Frank Anselem-Ibe, who had 5 points, 5 rebounds and 2 blocks in 10 minutes.

Guard Justin Hill hit a fadeaway 16-footer with 42 seconds to go as the shot clock wound down.

Hill, who scored 9 points with 5 assists, also hit a pull up jumper with 1.5 seconds left in a 68-66 comeback win at Florida State on Nov. 29.

“He’s got unwavering confidence,” White said. “He wants the ball late in games.”

Georgia trailed in the Florida State game by 17 in the second half. White said he brought that up to his team during the second half Tuesday night and at Missouri, the Bulldogs’ other road win.

Now it goes to Kentucky where it led by 8 at the half a year ago in an 85-71 loss.

Georgia beat the Wildcats 75-68 in Athens last season, but it has lost 11 in a row in Rupp since a 90-85 win on March 4, 2009.

“It’s going to be a very, very tall task as (Tuesday) was,” White said, “but hopefully our confidence continues to grow. That’s three road wins. Man, these are so hard to win on the road and South Caorlina is going to be a tough out for anyone wherever the game is but especially obviously at home….We’ve got a really resilient group.”

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