ATHENS – Georgia basketball looks to end a four-game losing streak and upset No. 18-ranked Memphis at 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday at Stegeman Coliseum.

UGA coach Tom Crean believes his team needs to improve greatly in the turnover category if it is to pull off the upset.

“We just have to learn how to win,” said Crean, who is looking for his 400th career win between his head coaching tenures at Marquette, Indiana, and Georgia. “The hard work. The time they put in. The attitude that they have. It’s all there. We just have to learn how to win, and we’ve had a very, very tough schedule. We played well enough the other day to win, but we had some crucial turnovers at the end of the game.”

Turnovers have been a problem for the Bulldogs, never more blatant than their most recent game against Wofford. Georgia held a one-point lead at halftime before 13 turnovers in the second half led to a heartbreaking loss.

Memphis has forced 108 turnovers through six games, so the Bulldogs need to tighten up Wednesday night if they want to hang with the Tigers down the stretch.

“Again, this team might be leading the country in forcing turnovers,” said Crean. “We have to be really good there. You can’t give a team that athletic, big and deep, those kinds of live-ball turnovers in the game and not make up for it in another way. We have to be really, really good. We have to attack and be fast, but we have to be able to recognize if we have something early, and if we don’t we have to keep the game going inside with that possession.”

Jaxon Etter spoke on a players-only meeting the team held following the Wofford loss Sunday night, looking to the tough schedule ahead and discussing the importance of communication in order to prevent turnovers.

“I told them, ‘this is the best Georgia basketball team that I have been a part of since I have been at Georgia,’ said Etter, who is in his third year at the program. “We have shown when we communicate and when we talk and play together, we are a really good basketball team. When we don’t, you can see that we are losing basketball games. … We are playing some really good basketball teams - we are not out here playing nobodies.

“It’s not big, giant changes, sometimes it’s just little communication mishaps. Like Wofford, we lost by three points, there were little communication mishaps throughout the game that if we fix, we win that game by five or ten points.”

Jailyn Ingram also touched on the importance of increased communication and focus, and the lack of it being one of Georgia’s greatest downfalls.

“We went back and watched the film and there were a lot of things that were self-inflicted,” he said. “Letting guys get to their dominant hands, not communicating on screens, giving them open shots. So it was more so what we did so we just had to look at that film and pretty much reflect on it.”

The Bulldogs are still looking to get back to 100 percent health with illness keeping several players from playing at full mast.

“We’ve been dealing with some health issues since really the weekend after Georgia Tech,” said Crean. “Really, actually going into Georgia Tech, but it’s just been lingering. Some new things have surfaced in that way, and we are trying to get over it and be healthier. I do think that this team is improving, and I think their work ethic is strong. It’s like anything else. You deal with injuries, you deal with things during the year, and right now we’re dealing with a little bit of sickness.”

Georgia, 2-1 against the Tigers all-time, is an 11.5-point home underdog to Memphis.