NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Georgia Tech

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#133 Georgia Tech

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Georgia Tech presents as a tough, defense-first club whose résumé is undermined by the quality of its wins and a couple of damaging nonconference setbacks. Their strongest moments came when the defense controlled games at home against Bryant and Monmouth and when they kept things competitive on the road at Georgia, but those positives are outweighed by neutral-site losses to DePaul and Drake and the defeat to Mississippi State, leaving the top of the résumé thin. What hurts most in a committee’s eye is the scarcity of road or neutral victories over respected opponents and the presence of avoidable blemishes that limit resume upside. The rest of the schedule provides clear paths to improve with trips to Duke, Miami, NC State, Stanford and California and home chances against Boston College and Florida State, so a handful of signature road or neutral wins would markedly change how this profile is judged while more losses would reinforce the current concerns.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/3	MD E Shore	337	W56-52
11/7	Bryant	312	W74-45
11/10	SE Louisiana	254	W70-60
11/14	@Georgia	23	L92-87
11/18	Ga Southern	225	W68-66
11/23	West Georgia	282	W82-66
11/28	(N)DePaul	117	L75-61
11/29	(N)Drake	121	L84-74
12/3	Mississippi St	78	L85-73
12/6	Monmouth NJ	215	W79-67
12/16	Marist	152	69%
12/20	Lafayette	332	92%
12/28	Florida A&M	344	94%
12/29	Florida A&M	344	94%
12/31	@Duke	4	2%
1/3	Boston College	138	63%
1/6	Syracuse	62	36%
1/10	@Miami FL	35	11%
1/14	Pittsburgh	95	50%
1/17	@NC State	34	10%
1/24	Clemson	22	20%
1/27	@Virginia Tech	72	20%
1/31	North Carolina	27	21%
2/4	@California	71	19%
2/7	@Stanford	80	24%
2/11	Wake Forest	55	34%
2/14	@Notre Dame	63	18%
2/18	Virginia	19	19%
2/21	@Louisville	14	5%
2/28	Florida St	94	49%
3/4	California	71	38%
3/7	@Clemson	22	8%