Dreadful.

That one word basically sums up all anyone needs to know about Saturday’s effort by Georgia against South Carolina, resulting in a 64-57 loss before a Stegeman Coliseum crowd of 9,788.

How ugly was it?

From a Georgia perspective, it couldn’t have been much worse as South Carolina finished off the seven-point victory despite shooting a season-low 27 percent from the field.

Combine that with the Bulldogs converting just 18 of 28 free throws and losing the battle of the boards 46-41 – 18-12 on the offensive glass - you have your story.

“We tried. We knew they were going long and we tried to get to a spot. There were a couple of bad bounces but at the end of the day it’s going to come down to who wants it more,” senior Yante Maten said. “I personally put a lot of that on me, because I know I let up on a couple of rebounds …yep.”

Offensively, the Bulldogs just didn’t get it done.

Maten led Georgia (11-5, 2-3) with 25 points but didn’t receive much help other than the 11 points off the bench by Juwan Parker.

“Against quality teams you just can’t have those kinds of errors,” head coach Mark Fox said. “South Carolina’s a good defensive team. We anticipated it would be a slugfest, and when you have a game like that you have to do things like get rebounds and make free throws. We didn’t do that.”

It was painful to watch.

Three times in the final 10:45, Georgia had opportunities to tie but failed to convert a free throw, finishing just 10 of 19 from the line in the second half.

“We’ve been a solid free throw shooting team, we obviously didn’t shoot very well in the second half, missed almost half of them,” Fox said. “You just can’t beat solid teams when you do that.”

Frank Booker led the Gamecocks (11-6, 2-3) with 17 points, followed by Chris Silva with 14 and Hassani Gravett with 11.

The loss was Georgia’s first at Stegeman Coliseum in nine home games and overall the team’s second straight defeat following Wednesday night’s 68-56 loss at Missouri.

“We’ve just got to get back up,” said Derek Ogbeide, who led Georgia with 11 rebounds. “I know for a fact that we can.”

For that to happen, the Bulldogs will have to get much more production than what they’re getting.

Saturday, Turtle Jackson tallied nine points, but was just 3 of 15 from the field while freshman Rayshaun Hammonds played 36 minutes and did not score a single point.

“They’re very disruptive on how they play and they’ve done that several years in a row. They’re very physical and they are a hard team to pass and catch against and you end up dribbling the ball a lot,” Fox said. “Turtle obviously didn’t have a very good game, but this is a game where your guards have to make some plays off the bounce and we didn’t make enough of those.”

The first half was basically a repeat of what happened in the second half of the loss to Missouri.

Georgia struggled in about every facet imaginable, falling behind 37-29 despite outshooting the Gamecocks 43.5 percent to 30.3.

The trouble was rebounds.

South Carolina dominated the boards, outrebounding Georgia 25-13, including a 13-2 advantage on the offensive end. As a result, the Gamecocks finished with 10 more shots and went to the line 17 times, converting 14 times for the eight-point halftime lead.

NOTES: With four blocks, Maten surpassed Terrell Bell on Georgia’s all-time career list and puts Maten at No. 3 in UGA history with 171. … Georgia hits the road for the next two games, first Tuesday night at LSU before traveling to Auburn on Saturday.