North Carolina, Georgia Tech Are Matching Up Twice This Season! Their First Match Up Is Today In Atlanta Where They're Tipping Off Their ACC Slates Before Returning To Non-Conference Play

North Carolina, Georgia Tech are matching up twice this season!

Where?

On the hardwood!

Their first match up is today in Atlanta where they’re tipping off their non-conference ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference ) slates before returning to non -conference play.

North Carolina, Georgia Tech both aren’t ranked in the AP Top 25 Poll this week!

North Carolina comes into the first match up with North Carolina with a record of 5-2!

Why?

Because North Carolina won their previous game on Wednesday December 1, 2021 in Chapel in the ACC/ Big Ten Challenge over Michigan.

In their win over Michigan in the ACC- Big Ten Challenge Caleb Love scored 22 points to help UNC take control after halftime.

North Carolina led 29-27 at the half, shot 58% after the break.

“according to an article by Aaron Beard Of The Associated Press”

Georgia Tech comes into the game with a record of 5-2 like North Carolina though, unlike North Carolina Georgia Tech lost their ACC/ Big Ten Challenge game!

To who?

Wisconsin by a score of 70-66 in Atlanta Georgia!

In Georgia Tech’s 70-66 loss to Wisconsin the game featured seven ties and eight lead changes, Michael Devoe’s 33 points weren’t enough for Georgia Tech men’s basketball to overcome No. 23 Wisconsin in a 70-66 Big Ten-ACC Challenge loss to the Badgers on Wednesday night at raucous McCamish Pavilion.

After the game went back and forth for much of the first 25 minutes, Wisconsin (5-1) used a 7-0 run midway through the second half to take a 53-43 lead. However, minutes later, Georgia Tech (5-2) went on a 9-2 run of its own, capped by a three-point play by Devoe to knot it back up at 61-61. From there, the Badgers never led by more than four points until the waning seconds, but Tech could never pull back even.

The Jackets’ best opportunity came with less than 30 seconds left when, trailing 66-64, Jordan Usher got a good look at a go-ahead three-pointer coming out of a timeout, but the shot didn’t fall and Wisconsin went on to make four-straight free throws to seal the victory.

The final stats bore out how close the contest was, as the teams had nearly identical numbers in field-goal percentage (Wisconsin – 42.6%, Tech – 41.5%), three-point field-goal percentage (both teams – 37.5%), points in the paint (both teams – 24), second-chance points (Wisconsin – 11, Tech – 10) and turnovers (Wisconsin – 8, Tech – 10). The Yellow Jackets out-rebounded the Badgers, 36-28, but Wisconsin scored 11 points off Tech’s 10 turnovers, while GT scored just five off the Badgers’ eight turnovers.

Devoe’s game-high 33 points came on just 20 shots (11-of-20 from the field, 5-of-10 from three, 6-of-7 from the free-throw line) and were just four point shy of his career-high of 37 set on Nov. 19 at Georgia. The 30-point performance was the third of his career.

Deivon Smith and Rodney Howard chipped in with nine points apiece for Georgia Tech, while Smith, a 6-1 guard, grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds.

Brad Davison scored 27 points to lead Wisconsin.

A crowd of 6,302, which included more than 2,100 Georgia Tech students, was the largest at McCamish Pavilion since 6,681 attended the Yellow Jackets’ 63-57 win over Miami (Fla.) on Feb. 29, 2020, Tech’s next-to-last home game before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“according to an article on ramblinwreck.com”

Tip off is set for 3:00pm from McCamish Pavilion!

The game is going to be televised on ESPN!