Dec. 30, 2028: #12 Boston College Eagles (10-2, 1-0) vs Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (8-4, 0-1) at Hank McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta, GA
PG Leonard Meliet
After the NC State game I was completely exhausted. If we hadn’t won, I wouldn’t have slept well, though. Fortunately we got the “W” and I slept until nearly noon the next day. We then flew from North Carolina to Georgia for our 2nd of 3 straight road games before we finish the trip next week in Florida. School’s on break so we don’t have to study. Coach Fed had us practicing hard instead.
Georgia Tech is a strange team. Over half their points are scored by bench players. Over half their rebounds have been recorded by bench players as well. I think Coach Fed is going to try to sub in one reserve at a time so that we have 4 (or at least 3) starters on the court throughout the game to counteract the strength of the Yellow Jackets’ bench.
Within the first 4 minutes we trailed by 10. Then midway through the half we were down by 16. We rallied to get within 4, but then Georgia Tech widened the gap and when the half ended we were down by a score of 43-35. We hit just 35% of our shots. C Courtland Reese scored 8 and pulled down boards. We’re going to try to tighten our defense but it’s risky since the refs were in love with their whistles in the first half.
We slowly chipped away at the Yellow Jackets lead in the 2nd half and with 12-1/2 minutes to go we took a 52-51 lead when SG Corey Graham drove, pulled up and hit a 12 foot jumper. The refs then did a number on us and we fell behind by 7 before rallying forge ahead at 68-66 with 4-1/2 minutes to go. The lead shifted back and forth and with a minute left the game was tied 71-71. Georgia Tech took a one point lead on a foul shot and then hit a 3 to make it 75-71. The gap was too large and we ended up losing 77-74. The Yellow Jackets scored 8 more points at the free throw line than us.
I was our leading scorer with 17 points, but Courtland Reese had a double-double with 14 points and 16 rebounds. Corey Graham tossed in 15 points. The Yellow Jackets’ C J.B. Murphy scored 21 points.