Georgia Tech VS.north carolina
The Flat – For its fifth trip in 10 games this season, Georgia Tech travels to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to begin its Atlantic Coast Conference schedule with 2022 NCAA runner-up North Carolina. It’s 3:15 p.m. Saturday at the Dean Smith Center. .
Tech (6-3) have won their last two games to kick-start the conference opener. Most recently, he beat in-state rivals Georgia 79-77 at home on Tuesday night, and last Friday he beat Northeastern 81-63 at home. Yellow, who has won all five home games this season, his Jackets won in Georgia on November 12 and lost in Iowa on November 29, his two true road trips to date. split. Marquette at the Fort Myers tip-off.
North Carolina (5-4) started the season with a five-game winning streak before losing two (four overtime games) to Iowa State and Alabama in the Phil Knight Invitational Thanksgiving Week. The Tar Heels then lost to Indiana in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on November 30, and last Saturday he lost to Virginia Tech in the ACC Opener.
Saturday’s game will be televised nationally on ESPN, with a live stream available on the ESPN app. Radio broadcasts are on the Georgia Tech Sports Network and flagship station 680 the Fan (680 AM/93.7 FM) by Legends Sports, and satellite radio (SiriusXM Channel 392, SXM App 982.
series vs.north carolina
- North Carolina leads the all-time series between the two teams, 71-27, and has a 57-25 advantage since Tech joined the ACC (one Tech victory in 2016-17 was , voided by the NCAA Violations Commission).
- The Tar Heels won 11 of the final 14 games of the series and won each of the final two games to dominate the 2021-22 regular season series (79-62 in Atlanta and 88-65 in Chapel Hill). ). Tech won his two previous meetings. The team’s only 2020-21 meeting win at the McCamish Pavilion, 72-67, and the team’s only meeting of the 2019-20 season, a 96-83 win at the Dean Smith Center. .
- Tech is 13-15 against North Carolina in the 2001-02 season.
- Tech is 8-6 in matches away from Chapel Hill in 2000-2001, including three wins in the ACC tournament.
- Tech has lost 13 of its last 15 meetings at the Smith Center, and consistently between 5 and 26 in the building. Counting regular season games in Greensboro, Tech is 6-33 against his UNC.
- Yellow Jackets have won 5 of their 9 matches in ACC Tournament matches, while Tech has won their last 3 matches (2004, 2005, 2010). Two of Tech’s five tournament wins were in championship games, the 1985 final in Atlanta and the 1993 final in Charlotte.
- Tech’s greatest success in the series against North Carolina occurred in the mid-1990s, when the Jacket won five out of seven meetings, including three straight victories over the #1 Tar Heels team during the 1993 and 1994 campaigns. times won.
Devon Smith (11.2 points average) averaged double figures in six games and ranked fourth in the ACC in assists/turnover percentage. (Photo by Danny Kurnick)
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- Saturday’s game is the second in a row, the fourth in the past eight years, and the eighth in conference history for Tech to start an ACC schedule against North Carolina. Jackets is 2-5 in previous openers, both under head coach Josh Pastner.
- Tech is always 18-25 in ACC openers and 8-15 when those games are in progress. (see full list on next page)
- Tech launches lineup devo coleman, Devon Smith, Miles Kelly When Jaron Moore around it Javon Franklin 3 wins in the last 4 games. Coleman and Smith are the only players to have started all nine games this season.
- After a nine-man rotation in the first eight games, Tech used eight players for the first time this season against Georgia. All eight scored in the match. Myles Kelly was the last to scratch, scoring all 17 points after halftime.
- Four or more Tech players have scored in double figures in six of nine games this season.
- The Tech-Georgia game featured 18 lead changes and 11 ties. Before Tuesday night, the biggest draw (8) and lead change (8) occurred on November 12 in Georgia.
- Tech won seven of their nine games in turnover battles, hitting their target of 11 or below six times this season. Yellowjackets season he has a turnover margin of plus 2.8 and in ACC he is 5th. The ownership rate (15.2%) that ends in rotation ranks him 17th in the nation.
- The Tech played their most efficient game of the season offensively against their Power Conference opponents (116.5 points per 100 possessions). Jacket has topped that number only against Creighton State (117.8) and North Alabama (125.2), and he posted a 115.9 most recently against Northeastern.
- Tech is second in the ACC in offensive rebounds per game (13.1), which translates to 14.1 second chance points per game.
- Miles Kelly They have scored in each of their last three games (21 vs. Iowa, 16 vs. Northeastern and 17 vs. Georgia) and have hit double figures in 7 of their 9 games this season.
- Kelly has started in Tech’s last four games (after coming off the bench in the first five), averaging 16.5 points and 4.8 rebounds in that span. In his last four games, he connected on 23 of 44 shots from the floor and 3-pointers on 11 of 22 shots from range and 9 of 10 from the line.
- Kerry has a winning basket for Tech against each of his in-state opponents this season. He banked in a runner with four seconds left in his Nov. 12 victory points in Georgia, and his floater from the lane with 23 seconds left against Georgia on Tuesday gave Tech the outright lead. gave.
- Devon Smith He scored 10 points in 6 of 9 games against Georgia, achieved double figures and set a career-high 6 assists in the Tech uniform.
- Smith has 29 assists (4.1 per game) in his last seven games, leading the Yellow Jackets with 3.6 per game. His assist/turnover ratio this season is 29:14, which puts him fourth best in the ACC.
- Javon Franklin He hit double figures in four games, the first time since Marquette against Georgia. He dropped his third double-double of the season (13 points, 9 rebounds) with one rebound shy.
- Franklin has blocked at least one shot in every game this season and is averaging 2.2 on the season, ranking second in the ACC and 23rd in the nation. He has a total of 20 blocks, matching Rodney Howard’s team-leading total of 20 in 2021-22.
- Jaron Moore Scoring in double figures in four straight games since entering the starting lineup, he averaged 12.8 points and 6.8 rebounds in that stretch, coming 18-of-37 from the floor and 15-of-18 from the line.
Jalon Moore has started the last four games for Tech, averaging 12.8 points and 6.8 rebounds. (Photo by Danny Kurnick)
Initiatives to strengthen competitiveness
Georgia Tech, the Georgia Tech Foundation, the Georgia Tech Track and Field Department, and the Alexander Tharp Foundation have joined forces to launch a competitiveness initiative to accelerate funding for student-athlete scholarships. The initiative reached his initial fundraising goal of $2.5 million in less than six weeks and extended the goal to his $3.5 million, which he raised by December 31st. That means that if the $3.5 million fundraising goal is met, the matching gift will bring his $7 million impact to Georgia Tech track and field. To learn more and contribute online, please visit: atfund.org/accelerate.
About Georgia Tech Men’s Basketball
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