CHARLESTON, S.C.— Georgia basketball was in a shooting funk and a double-digit lead was gone.

Then a newcomer known as “Smurf” made a clutch shot that will be hard to top the rest of this season for the Bulldogs.

Marcus “Smurf” Millender, whose parents gave him the nickname when he was a baby after the cartoon character, had made just 12 of 46 3-point tries since transferring from UTSA.

That is until the 5-foot-11, 175-pound junior from Houston, with his team down by two, buried a dagger 3 with 11 seconds left for the final points in the Bulldogs’ 78-77 win over Xavier on Friday night Nov. 21 in the Shiners Children’s Charleston Classic.

When the game at TD Arena ended, Millender and Jordan Ross jumped into the air for a celebratory collision.

It was Ross who passed the ball to Mil

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