Surging Georgia Tech will play its final home game of the regular season when it faces last-place Miami on Tuesday in Atlanta.
Georgia Tech (15-14, 9-9 Atlantic Coast Conference) has won six of eight games since the beginning of February and enters play riding a five-game home winning streak. On the heels of the Yellow Jackets’ 25-point win over North Carolina State, head coach Damon Stoudamire’s squad can clinch its 10th win in league play for the first time in four years on Tuesday.
“I’m so proud of the guys just from a maturity standpoint,” Stoudamire said after the latest victory. “(Saturday) was a game that we were supposed to win with how well we’ve been playing. The effort, the energy, the connectivity and the sense of urgency were all there from the jump.”
In Georgia Tech’s 15th overall win — which tied its most since 2020-21 — Baye Ndongo had a career-high 29 points along with 17 rebounds, while Duncan Powell chipped in 23 points and 10 boards as the Yellow Jackets recorded their largest margin of victory in conference play.
Lance Terry leads Georgia Tech with 14.8 points per game, followed by Ndongo’s 13.3 and Naithan George’s 12.6.
Miami (6-23, 2-16) is just two years removed from a Final Four appearance, but a disaster of a season has the Hurricanes eliminated from ACC tournament contention. Miami has dropped five in a row and will have its last chance of earning a win away from home on Tuesday. One more loss would match the program’s single-season record set by the 1991-92 team that went 8-24.
With rumors swirling regarding who Miami will hire as head coach following the season, interim Bill Courtney wants his group to stay focused over the campaign’s final week.
“We’ve got to keep the main thing the main thing, and that’s the game,” Courtney said. “It’s almost impossible to not hear the noise, but when you’re coaching guys, you want them to block that out as much as possible. I have not addressed that one bit.”
Matthew Cleveland paces the Hurricanes with 16.7 points per game, while Lynn Kidd adds 11.5.
–Field Level Media
