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Jackets Return Home to Host Northern Illinois – Men’s Basketball — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Jackets Return Home to Host Northern Illinois – Men's Basketball — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

GEORGIA TECH VS. NORTHERN ILLINOIS

 


THE FLATS – Back home for its second game of the season at McCamish Pavilion. Georgia Tech hosts Northern Illinois of the Mid-American Conference in a nationally-televised game at 8 p.m. Thursday evening.

Off to their first 2-0 start since the 2019-20 season, the Yellow Jackets scored their first road victory of the season Saturday night, 59-57 across town at Georgia State, after soundly defeating Division II Clayton State, 93-63, in their opener Nov. 7 at home.

The Huskies (1-2) got in the win column for the first time Monday night with a 99-73 victory over Division II Purdue Northwest, following a pair of losses to Illinois-Springfield, 83,77 at home, and Northwestern, 63-46 on the road.

The game will be televised on the ACC Network, with a live stream available on the ESPN app. Radio coverage will be on the Georgia Tech Sports Network by Legends Sports and flagship station 680 the Fan (680 AM/93.7 FM), as well as on satellite radio (SiriusXM channel 371, SXM app 371).

JACKETS AT-A-GLANCE

Georgia Tech welcomes back eight players who logged significant playing time during 2021-22, looking to replace the 1-2 scoring duo of Michael Devoe and Jordan Usher, who combined to average more than 32 points per game.

Among the eight key letterwinners returning are two starters from the 2021-22 squad, both seniors in 6-3 point guard Kyle Sturdivant (7.6 ppg, 2.3 apg) and 6-11 center Rodney Howard (6.5 ppg, 5.1 rpg), as well as the backup point guard, 6-1 junior Deivon Smith (5.7 ppg, 2.0 apg) and a rising trio of sophomore perimeter players in 6-6 Dallan “Deebo” Coleman (6.2 ppg), 6-6 Miles Kelly (4.5 ppg) and 6-7 Jalon Moore (2.8 ppg). Junior 6-2 guard Tristan Maxwell and 6-8 junior forward Jordan Meka return to provide additional depth.

Pastner and his staff have augmented the eight returnees with a pair of transfers in 6-2 guard Lance Terry (14.3 ppg at Gardner-Webb) and 6-7 forward Ja’von Franklin (12.2 ppg, 7.8 rpg at South Alabama), and over the summer signed a pair of international players – 6-8 forward Freds Pauls Bagatskis from Latvia and 7-foot center Cyril Martynov of Canada.

Tech finished off the 2021-22 season with an 84-74 loss to Louisville in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Tech (12-20 overall, 5-15 ACC) finished in 14th place in the ACC regular season standings, one year after winning the fourth conference title in program history.

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