Field Level Media
22 Feb 2025, 01:13 GMT+10
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Looking to match a season-best three-game winning streak, Georgia Tech will travel to Chestnut Hill, Mass., on Saturday afternoon to tangle with Boston College in Atlantic Coast Conference play.
Georgia Tech (13-13, 7-8) has won four of its past five games and is looking to post its eighth conference win for the first time since 2020-21, when the Yellow Jackets won 11 ACC contests.
For a team that's playing its best ball in February, another strong effort Saturday could propel the group into the top half of the congested league standings.
'I see more for our team than they can see themselves,' Georgia Tech coach Damon Stoudamire said. 'I think we're playing the right basketball at the right time. I've been saying it for a while, but we didn't have the wins to show for it. We're excited, but we've got to keep our foot on the pedal.'
Most recently, the Yellow Jackets earned a 90-88 overtime win last Saturday over Cal in a game in which Baye Ndongo's buzzer-beating, put-back layup sealed the victory.
In Georgia Tech's highest-scoring output in ACC play this season, Ndongo and Naithan George led the way with 26 points apiece.
Both peaking during the team's recent five-game stretch, Ndongo is averaging 17.2 points and 11.6 rebounds per game in February, while George is chipping in 22.2 ppg and 6.8 assists since the calendar flipped.
Boston College (11-15, 3-12), which has lost six of seven games against Georgia Tech since 2019, picked up a much-needed win on Tuesday against Virginia Tech. After dropping their previous four games, the Eagles beat the Hokies 54-36.
In what is shaping up to be Boston College's 16th straight year of missing the NCAA Tournament, stringing nights together such as Tuesday is paramount.
'We've been hardened; we've gone through a lot this season,' Eagles coach Earl Grant said. 'I saw us grow up a little bit (Tuesday), and we've got to build on it. It's hard to do what we did.'
Donald Hand Jr., who has scored in double figures in seven straight games, leads the Eagles with an average of 16.5 points per game this season, followed by Chad Venning's 12.9.
--Field Level Media
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