Yellow Jackets Stung at Home by Cardinals' Sharp Shooting
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets faced a challenging contest against the 20th-ranked Louisville Cardinals, concluding with a scoreboard reading 80-62 in favor of the visitors. The Yellow Jackets now stand without a rank, while the Cardinals improved their record.
At Hank McCamish Pavilion, the home crowd witnessed the Yellow Jackets struggle to find their rhythm early on. The first quarter ended with Georgia Tech trailing by eight points as they put up only 13 points to Louisville's 21. The second quarter saw a slight improvement for the home team, managing to add another 15 points to their tally but still falling behind with the Cardinals extending their lead by scoring 22 points.
Georgia Tech's offensive efforts were led by their ability to draw fouls and capitalize at the free-throw line where they excelled with an impressive accuracy rate of around 89 percent. Despite this proficiency from the charity stripe, it was not enough to bridge the gap created by Louisville's consistent scoring across all quarters.
The third period continued in much of the same vein, with Georgia Tech adding just 12 more points against Louisville's relentless attack that added another 20 points. Entering into what would be a decisive final quarter, Georgia Tech trailed significantly but showed signs of life outscoring Louisville for that period with an aggressive push netting them 22 points; however, it was too little too late.
Louisville’s sharpshooting was on full display as they boasted field goal percentages hovering around mid-fifties and three-point shooting at approximately fifty-four percent. Their offense was well-distributed among players which is reflected in their nineteen assists and twelve made three-pointers contributing significantly to their total score.
Defensively, both teams were active but it was clear that steals played an important role in transition opportunities for both sides – seven for Georgia Tech and five for Louisville. However, it was ultimately turnovers where both teams had room for improvement; sixteen turnovers committed by Georgia Tech slightly edged out fifteen from Louisville.
The Yellow Jackets did manage some success inside painting themselves positively with twenty-eight personal rebounds compared to twenty-nine from Louisville and nine second-chance points indicating some resilience on offense despite being outrebounded overall twenty-four to thirty-one.
As fans look forward toward future matchups after this conference game defeat marked by only one lead change throughout its duration attended by one thousand five hundred fifty-four spectators at Hank McCamish Pavilion – attention turns towards when Georgia Tech will take on Wake Forest Demon Deacons next week back home again in Atlanta at Hank McCamish Pavilion scheduled on February 25th at two o'clock PM Eastern Time where fans can catch all action live as it unfolds.