Women’s Basketball Preps for Gulf Coast Showcase

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech girls’s basketball is about to go to the Sunshine State for the 2022 Gulf Forged Showcase in Estero, Fla., over the Thanksgiving vacation. The three-day match runs Nov. 25-27, options an eight-team area and will likely be performed at Hertz Enviornment. The Yellow Jackets open the match on Friday at 7:30 p.m. towards South Florida.

GEORGIA TECH (3-1, 0-0 ACC) vs. SOUTH FLORIDA (6-0, 0-0 American)

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Georgia Tech carries a 3-1 report into the match after dropping its first recreation of the season this previous weekend towards Georgia. For the second-straight recreation, the Yellow Jackets fell within the rebounding battle, and surrendered 20 offensive boards. Georgia hit 45.2 p.c from the sphere to mark the primary opponent to shoot larger than 30.0 p.c this season. Cameron Swartz continues to guide Georgia Tech offensively, and notched her fourth recreation in double-figures with a team-high 15 factors towards the Woman Bulldogs. On the season, Swartz is averaging 16.0 factors per recreation. Nerea Hermosa leads Tech on the glass with a mean of 6.8 rebounds per recreation.

South Florida performed its sixth recreation of the season on Tuesday night time, selecting up a commanding 75-57 victory over New Hampshire to enhance to 6-0 on the season. The Bulls have performed just one recreation away from its residence court docket, amassing a slender victory at TCU on Nov. 20. 4 gamers are averaging double-figure scoring numbers to guide USF led by Sammie Puisis at 16.5 factors per recreation. Dulcy Fankam Mendjiadeu intently follows at 16.0 factors and leads on the glass with 9.3 rebounds per recreation.

Georgia Tech and USF have met 5 occasions on the hardwood in program historical past relationship again to 1983, however haven’t met since 1990. Tech leads the sequence, 5-0, together with a 2-0 edge in impartial web site video games.

Aggressive Drive Initiative

In a unified endeavor, Georgia Tech, the Georgia Tech Basis, Georgia Tech athletics and the Alexander-Tharpe Fund have come collectively to speed up funding for student-athlete scholarships with the launch of the Aggressive Drive Initiative. The initiative kicks off with the Speed up GT Match Program, the place any new reward to the A-T Fund’s Athletic Scholarship Fund made via Dec. 31 will likely be matched dollar-for-dollar by the Georgia Tech Basis, as much as $2.5 million. Ought to Speed up GT attain its $2.5 million fundraising purpose, the matching reward would lead to a $5 million affect for Georgia Tech athletics. To be taught extra and to contribute on-line, go to atfund.org/speed up.

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