The 1937–38 Georgia Bulldogs basketball team represented the University of Georgia as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1937–38 NCAA men's basketball season. Led by three head coaches, the Bulldogs compiled an overall record of 12–10 with a mark of 4–6 in conference play, placing ninth in the SEC. The team captain was Jack Farren.
Rex Enright had served as the head Georgia's head basketball coach for the prior six seasons. In late December 1937, he was hired as the head football coach at the University of South Carolina. Vernon Smith coached the Bulldogs for their first two games of the season, in early January, before leaving Georgia to become an assistant under Enright at South Carolina. On January 10, 1938, Georgia's athletic board named Elmer A. Lampe of Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin as the school's new head basketball coach and ends coach for the Georgia Bulldogs football team under Joel Hunt, newly hired as head football coach. At that time, Frank Johnson was appointed head coach of Georgia's basketball team, as Lampe was not scheduled to come to Georgia until February, at which time he would be occupied with spring football training. Johnson left Georgia on February 20, following Harry Mehre, who had been head coach of Georgia's football team since 1928, to the University of Mississippi. Lampe then took charge of the Georgia basketball team.
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