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BasketJackets: Game 27 vs Notre Dame, Feb. 20 Sat., 8pm (ESPN-2)

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The Jackets return home from a successful road win for the first time since a season ago when they defeated Miami on the road by 20 points. Tech's return home saw us lose in overtime by 1 point to NC State on a devastating shot at the buzzer by the Pack who went the length of the floor and took one deep.

Tech, yet again, has another chance to win back-to-back A.C.C. regular season games. Under CBG, following a regular season A.C.C. win, Tech is 2-19.

The Irish defeated the Jackets in South Bend back in early January by 8 points. Tech cut the Irish lead to 3 points (64-61) on an Adam Smith 3-pointer with 3:24 left in the game, but the Well Endowed Scholars could not get any closer the rest of the way. ND postman, Zach Auguste, went 10 of 13 from the field - including several wide open layups that Tech must prepare better to avoid allowing - scoring 24 points while Naismith Award finalist, Demetrius Jackson, went 13 of 14 from the charity stripe to finish with 18 points in their win. The Irish had an unusually cold night from outside the arc at home going 2 of 15 (13%). That's an anomaly. Tech still must defend the perimeter closely as the Irish can be lights out good if they get hot out from deep.

ND has had the week off to freshen the legs. When the point spreads are released Friday afternoon, Tech should open as around 1 to 2 point underdogs.

ND preview and game notes... http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...o_pdf/2015-16/release/release_20160218aaa.pdf

Announcers for the prime time ESPN-2 matchup will be Allen Bestwick (p-b-p) and former Irish great LaPhonso Ellis (analyst).

In today's (Thu., Feb. 18) updated Joe Lunardi Bracketology projections... http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology/_/iteration/233 the Irish are forecast to be a 5-seed when dancing in March commences. They have a strong RPI at 20 and RPI SOS is rated at 15th.

This is the first of 3 straight A.C.C. road games (all very winnable as they travel to Wake and FSU after G.T.) for Notre Dame. The Irish have won 4 of their last 5 including wins in their last 3 over the Cheaters, at Clemson, and home over the Escort Service Academy.

Note, I project the Irish to finish 2nd in the A.C.C. regular season, but that considers this game Saturday as a W for them. Can the BasketJackets get a back-to-back A.C.C. win for a change? We shall see. Hopefully, the guys can build on the outstanding effort and play they exhibited in Tallahassee Wednesday evening. Would be fun - and the time is perfectly right - to see these guys get on a late season roll heading into postseason.
 
Coverage map for the game Saturday night by the way...


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...areas in blue will get the game via ESPN-2.

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So if we take an iceboat out on Lake Michigan, ESPN 2 won't have the game? I pledge to never drink water when in Flint. Has Michael Moore sounded off on the Mayor, yet?
 
Good first half by the Jackets. Somebody has got to step in front of Jackson when he drives. Even if you foul him, you've got to make him think on the next drive that somebody may step over in your path.

Hopefully CBG will keep the same 7-man rotation he played for most all of the 1st half. Lammers continues to impress.
 
Maybe it's just me but I hate our PA announcer being a cheerleader. Specifically, the LET'S...GO...TECH thing he's leading. He's now even getting insistent about it when the crowd doesn't go along with his lame cheer leading. Just a random sad observation.

Now, you can all GET...OFF...MY...YARD!!!

:p
 
Why is Heath in the game? Why F with the rotation that built a 7 to 9 pt lead for most of the first half? Complete liability on offense. Same for all the PG's. Makes NO sense to me.
 
We've seen this movie before. Intriguing premise and an interesting plot until about 3/4 of the way through. Then the entire production takes a detour into the crapper.
 
I am a huge fan of the unexpected plot twist at the end! Wow!!! That ending totally and completely took me by surprise. Way to finish Jackets!!!!!!!!
 
Back-to-back A.C.C. wins. Nice!

Now, we owe some payback to the Kitty Cats.
 
We've got a pair of winnable games coming up. How about we take a four game winning streak into Louisville?
 
Tech is 1 game out of the 9th seed and 1/2 game out of the 10th seed. Hokies 1 game ahead of us have the tie breaker. FSU 1/2 game ahead of us yields the tie breaker to us.
 
FSU's remaining schedule... at Duke, home vs Notre Dame, home vs Syracuse

Va Tech's remaining schedule... at BC, at Wake, home vs Pitt, home vs Miami

NC State's remaining schedule... home vs UNC, at Syracuse, home vs BC, at Notre Dame
 
Not trying to take anything away from defeating the #19 team in our house or snapping their streak against us...Ga. Tech and Autism Speaks did a really poor job of filling those thousand to two-thousand empty seats. Neither got in touch with me. Both know that we fully qualify and know plenty of others who do too. Very insensitive, especially for the many single parents who would have loved a Saturday Night out watching A C C hoops.
 
Good win, but this makes me want to throw up... http://georgiatech.blog.ajc.com/2016/02/21/notre-dame-win-earns-gregory-3000-bonus/

Mike Bobinski has to be trying his best to qualify as the dumbest AD to ever exist in Tech history. At least Dave Braine did a lot for Tech Women's Athletics.

My Buddha how ridiculously stupid of a moron we have for an AD. I typically like incentive-based contracts don't get me wrong, but where are the reductions for losses to the likes of ETSU?

(but, it's "only" 9 grand, JT!!!)

I don't care. That's 9 grand that could be applied towards something more important and certainly way more deserving. If CBG has the class I have always thought he does, he should donate that 9 grand back to a scholarship or something.

Mike Bobinski...

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edit note: people sometimes say Tech does or will have trouble attracting big time HC's...with dumb ass AD's like we have and the dumb contracts they offer, this should not be an obstacle...you can come here and be extremely mediocre and still get extensions, higher buyout amounts, and now bonuses for beating teams like Wake Forest...CBG should just be happy to have a job at Tech...he has not earned a single bonus...employment is his bonus and the ridiculous free money without working he's going to receive one day in the future for delivering next to nothing to Tech is absurdly a bonus of its own...Bobinski is a moron
 
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Can the fans select how much he "losses" for the Ga. and Clemson games? Pick five needs to have some reprucussion. Those two are "close rivals", so they should deduct 5k each on CBG. The one "wild card game", should be ETSU as an embarrassment to the program costing him 10k. He owes us 11k. net total. I vote a donation to CHOA/Eggleston Hospital with that balance.
 
CBG keeps referring to the rebuild. On his post game show last night, he mentioned it over and over. After 5 years for this basketball team, what has this rebuild netted? I see potentially two A C C starters, that other programs would want in cardiac Tadric and Big Ben. A role player at best in skinny Stephens. Three freshmen, who will be forced to play some, ready or not(in our league, probably not). Two large redshirts still learning the game and PG's who are erratic on their good days.
 
I was glad to see Marcus hit that last shot. I was happy for the young man. I hope he has many more highlights in his future!

Congratulations to Marcus and the team on the win. Go get the next one.

all the rest??? water under the bridge...
 
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