I’m sticking with my prediction from the beginning year. If Georgia Tech finishes 8-8 in the ACC, they will make the NCAA tournament. Saturday they picked up a 73-68 win over a pesky Boston College team. The game was never really in doubt in my opinion. The Jackets moved to 19-9 (7-7), and the path is obvious, win at Clemson or at home Virginia Tech to get to 8-8.
Iman Shumpert had 24 points in the win, and Derrick Favors had another solid game with 14 points and 5 rebounds. When Shumpert can free himself into scoring position he makes Georgia Tech a much better team. I really would like to see him more at shooting guard and less point guard. I guess Hewitt feels he doesn’t have much option there though. Either play freshman Mfon Udofia there, who seems to have hit a wall, or play Maurice Miller at the point. Miller has played solidly in the backup role recently, but doesn’t have the size Shumpert does, and Hewitt likes big point guards to be his starter. That said, when Shumpert scores 15 points or more a game, Tech will usually win.
Derricks Favors is looking more and more like the player that was a consensus top 5 High School. I think Favors is starting to learn how to stay out of foul trouble, and he runs the floor as well as any big man in the ACC. I’m still not convinced that Georgia Tech is playing its best basketball of the year as Paul Hewitt said recently, but they are still in position to make the NCAA’s. That’s all you can ask for at this point in the year.
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