Every once in a while, a team can have a game where everything seems to go right.

Meredith Mitchell scored a game-high 16 points in the Lady Dogs 69-51 win. Photo by Taylor Merck

Every loose ball comes its way.

The other team makes uncharacteristic turnovers.

And seemingly impossible shots go in.

Those strokes of good fortune helped the Georgia women’s basketball team turn what was expected to be a close, hard-fought game with No. 19 Kentucky into a blowout Thursday night in Stegeman Coliseum, beating the Lady Wildcats 69-51 to sweep their season series.

And no play exemplified the basketball gods smiling on the Lady Bulldogs (20-6, 10-3) more than a Jasmine Hassell basket in the first half to give Georgia a 33-18 lead.

Hassell made the hook shot left-handed. As in, not the dominant hand for the natural right-hander.

“I like using my left hand as much as my right hand,” she said, downplaying the basket in a game where she posted her first career double-double, with 13 points and 11 rebounds. “I try not to be one-dimensional, because I’ve been working on using my left hand since I was little.”

Hassell was not the only Lady Bulldog to garner a double-double, as senior forward Porsha Phillips had 14 points and 16 rebounds in a game where Georgia led for the duration of the contest, jumping out to a 4-0 lead and ending the half up 38-22.

In the second half, Kentucky (19-7, 8-5) never cut Georgia’s advantage fewer than 13.

After easily dismissing a ranked team that was just one game behind the Lady Bulldogs for second place in the SEC heading into Thursday, some may consider this Georgia’s most complete performance of the season.

Just don’t count Lady Bulldogs head coach Andy Landers among them.

“I haven’t thought of it like that,” he said. “You can make that decision.”

Lady Dogs 69, Kentucky 51