NCAA Tournament March Madness

#162 Georgia Tech

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Georgia Tech’s profile reads like a team that can beat lesser opponents and occasionally take down a good conference rival but lacks the body of work to earn an at-large bid, so its path to the Big Dance runs through the ACC tournament. The season’s high point is a gritty road victory at NC State that shows the program can win away from home, yet that achievement is swamped by ugly neutral-site setbacks to DePaul and Drake and by rough road losses at California and Stanford that will stick in the committee’s memory. Home wins over lower-tier nonconference foes are outweighed by damaging home defeats to Syracuse and Clemson and by a costly loss to Georgia, and meetings with bluebloods like Duke and North Carolina ended as defeats rather than resume-building upsets. Remaining dates at Louisville, a home game with Virginia, a meeting with Florida State and another clash with California represent the only clear chances to repair the résumé before the league tournament. Without more quality wins away from home and against respected opponents, the team’s simplest route into the NCAA field is to secure the conference automatic berth.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3MD E Shore339W56-52
11/7Bryant355W74-45
11/10SE Louisiana270W70-60
11/14@Georgia43L92-87
11/18Ga Southern279W68-66
11/23West Georgia321W82-66
11/28(N)DePaul112L75-61
11/29(N)Drake202L84-74
12/3Mississippi St86L85-73
12/6Monmouth NJ206W79-67
12/16Marist185W87-76
12/20Lafayette327W95-81
12/28Florida A&M334W89-65
12/31@Duke2L85-79
1/3Boston College151W65-53
1/6Syracuse69L82-72
1/10@Miami FL37L91-81
1/14Pittsburgh109L89-66
1/17@NC State30W78-74
1/24Clemson33L77-63
1/27@Virginia Tech65L71-65
1/31North Carolina28L91-75
2/4@California66L90-85
2/7@Stanford74L95-72
2/11Wake Forest72L83-67
2/14@Notre Dame80L89-74
2/18Virginia2010%
2/21@Louisville142%
2/28Florida St7836%
3/4California6632%
3/7@Clemson336%