Georgia
Tech Goes Cold in Loss at Wake Forest
Winston-Salem, N.C. – Baye Ndongo scored a team-high 13 points with 10 rebounds for his 12th double-double this season, but Georgia Tech shot less than 30 percent from the floor and set a season-low for points in a 69-43 loss at Wake Forest Saturday at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Tech suffered its largest margin of defeat since an 82-58 loss to Duke on Dec. 21. With the loss, Tech (16-15, 10-10 ACC) locked down the No. 8 seed in next week’s Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament in Charlotte, N.C., where they will play the noon game Wednesday against the No. 9 seed, which will be determined after results later Saturday.
Tech made just 5-of-27 shots from the floor, 2-of-17 from 3-point range in trailing 34-15 at the break. The Yellow Jackets had two scoring droughts of more than four minutes, and the Demon Deacons closed the half on a 12-0 run. Things improved in the second half, but only marginally as Tech finished at 29.6% and made just three 3-point field goals in the game, both season lows.
Meanwhile, the Demon Deacons (21-10, 13-7 ACC) shot just 38.1% for the game, but hit 11 3-pointers and forced 16 Tech turnovers, which they turned into 23 points.
Jaeden Mustaf was the only other Yellow Jacket in double figures with 12 points, and Ibrahim Souare pulled a team-high 11 rebounds, his second double-digit effort this season.
Baye Ndongo (11) posted his 12th double-double this season with 13 points and 10 rebounds. (photo by Andy Mead)
POST-GAME NOTES
- Georgia Tech finished the regular season in 8th place in the ACC standings, four slots ahead of the media’s pre-season projections, and has finished ahead of the pre-season projection eight of the last nine years.
- Tech draws the No. 8 seed in next week’s ACC Tournament in Charlotte, N.C., where it will play the noon game Wednesday, March 12, against the No. 9 seed, a team to be determined following the remainder of Saturday’s games. It is the first time the Yellow Jackets have earned a first-round bye in the tournament since 2021, when they won the championship.
- Tech once stood 2-6 in ACC play this season, but has won 5 of its last 7 games, 7 of its last 10 (Feb. 1 to the present), and 8 of its last 12.
- Tech’s 43 points, 29.6% shooting from the floor and 13% from 3-point range against Wake Forest were all season lows. The 43 points were the Yellow Jackets’ fewest since a 96-43 loss to Duke on Jan. 28, 2023, and the FG% was Tech’s lowest since hitting 29.5% in a game at Louisville on Feb. 1, 2023.
- Tech is 3-6 in games vs. Quad 1 teams this season with wins over Louisville on 2/1, Clemson on 2/4 and Pittsburgh on 2/25. The Jackets are 7-13 vs. Quad 1 teams under Damon Stoudamire.
- Baye Ndongo posted his 12th double-double of the season and 10th in ACC play this season with 13 points and 10 rebounds against Wake Forest. Only Maxime Reynaud of Stanford (12) has more double-doubles against ACC teams this season, and only Eddie Lampkin of Syracuse (10) has as many.
- Ibrahim Souare led the Yellow Jackets with 11 rebounds and notched his second double-digit carom game this season.
- Freshman Jaeden Mustaf pitched in 12 points at Wake Forest, his second double-figure effort in Tech’s last 3 games and his 3rd in an ACC game this season, 9th overall.
Jaeden Mustaf (3) scored 12 points for his second double-figure game in the last three. (photo by Andy Mead)
GAME HIGHLIGHTS
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The SEC has announced the future Georgia football conference opponents for the 2026 through 2029 seasons.
Georgia will face Florida, South Carolina and Auburn every season. The SEC announced on Friday that the annual opponents will be revisited every four seasons.
Georgia football future SEC opponents, schedule
- 2026: Florida (Atlanta), at South Carolina, Auburn, at Alabama, at Ole Miss, at Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Vanderbilt
- 2027: Florida (Tampa), South Carolina, at Auburn, at Kentucky, at Texas, at Texas A&M, LSU, Mississippi State, Tennessee
- 2028: Florida (Jacksonville), at South Carolina, Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss, Arkansas, at Oklahoma, at Missouri, at Vanderbilt
- 2029: Florida (Jacksonville), South Carolina, at Auburn, Kentucky, Texas, Texas A&M, at LSU, at Mississippi State, at Tennessee
“it’s hard. I mean, it’s brutal. And everybody’s the same,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said on Tuesday night. “I mean, we all gotta play each other. It’s really tough, highly ranked teams, physical teams. It’s just going to continue to be a grind. I mean, looking forward with the nines coming, it’s going to be scary because you just don’t have enough. Nobody has enough depth.”
Dates for the 2026 schedule will be announced in December, according to the conference. The schedules will be flipped in 2028 and 2029 from the home-road splits in 2026 and 2027.
In its scheduling outline, the SEC made it clear it wants competitively balanced schedules, which will be determined using the entire schedule and not just the annual opponents. Tennessee reportedly will face Alabama, Vanderbilt and Kentucky in each of the next four years. The latter two are not exactly football powerhouses.
According to the SEC, the highest opponent average winning percentage for any school in the 2026-29 schedules is 55.67% while the lowest is 46.65%, a difference of only 9.02%. From 2020 through 2023 — when the league still used the divisional format — the highest winning percentage was 61.32% and the lowest was 39.76%.
In addition to nine conference games, the SEC stipulates that schools face one Power Four in its nonconference scheduling.
Georgia’s game against Georgia Tech satisfies that requirement. Georgia has future nonconference games against Louisville, Florida State, Clemson and Ohio State on its schedule for the time being.
As it stands, Georgia has 13 games scheduled for the 2025 season. The Bulldogs have nonconfernce games against Tennessee State, Western Kentucky, Louisville and Georgia Tech.
“We’re working through that right now, and a lot of that’s going to be determined as we learn when and where our schedule is going to be in the next few weeks,” Georgia athletic director Josh Brooks said. “But that’s something we’re attacking right now to see what our options are going to be in 2026. So we’re going to take it one year at a time right now. The first focus is going to be on 2026 and then 2027 and moving on. So still a lot of work to be done, and I work closely with Coach Smart and Mark Robinson and the league to kind of figure out what is that going to mean for our schedule moving forward.”
Georgia takes on Alabama this week, with the game scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC.
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We’re back for another week of college football action and the slate is loaded, including three games between ranked opponents.
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Here are the best games this Saturday:
Clemson at Georgia Tech (+3), Noon ET, ESPN: The Tigers are just 3-point favorites ahead of their first road game. It’s a sign that expectations for Clemson have been way off. With Haynes King back, the Yellow Jackets will want to keep it on the ground.
Georgia at Tennessee (+4), 3:30 p.m., ABC: Has Georgia’s offense been good enough ahead of this pivotal SEC game? Saturday is the day to air it out as Tennessee will be without its top two corners again.
South Florida at Miami (-17.5), 4:30 p.m., The CW: The Bulls are the surprise team so far this season. Can they pull off a third straight upset, or will the ‘Canes handle business?
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Florida at LSU (-7), 7:30 p.m., ABC: This game was going to be the day’s marquee matchup before Florida’s loss to USF. A Florida victory would certainly quiet the idea that Billy Napier is on the hot seat.
Texas A&M at Notre Dame (-6.5), 7:30 p.m., NBC: Aggies QB Marcel Reed has thrown for seven TDs so far and A&M’s offense has racked up 953 total yards. The Irish will surely try to get the ball to their star running backs after a subpar opener.
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