Feb. 6, 2031: #14 Boston College Eagles (16-6, 10-2, NET Ranking 2) vs Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (11-9, 6-5, NET Ranking 64) at Hank McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta, Georgia
Excerpts of the WEEI Radio Broadcast of the Game
*Red Melrose and DJ Monroe here with you, BC fans. We’re bringing this game to our loyal Eagles’ fans tonight from Atlanta where the Eagles who now have risen to #14 in the polls will take on the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. As most of you are probably aware, BC’s PF Danny Toliver has been nursing a sprained toe. So for the second straight game, Coach Aura is starting Tim Cotton at center and moving Ben Schau over to PF. Toliver is expected to get into the game off the bench, but his playing time will be limited.
*Grannum called for his 2nd foul with 15 minutes to play in the first half. Glen Robinson is replacing him at PG.
*Tech’s Johnny Willard is punished the Eagles. He’s now scored 11 points to put the Yellow Jackets ahead 15-10.
*Willard hits another 3 making it 23-10 with 10 minutes left in the half.
*Thorn’s pass is stolen…the 10th turnover by BC. Arnold whips the ball up to a streaking Travis Buchanan who throws it down for yet another breakaway basket to make it 38-19. Coach Aura’s stewing on the sidelines.
*The half with Boston College trailing 45-30. Georgia Tech hit 52% of their FG attempts and 7 of 17 from 3 point distance, but it the Eagles’ 11 turnovers were their downfall.
*Graham looks over the defense, then bounces a pass into Schau. Schau gets it back outside to Glen Robinson who’s free for a 3 pointer that goes down. That’s 9 straight points for the Eagles to start the 2nd half reducing Tech’s lead to 45-39.
*After getting to within 3 points of the Yellow Jackets, the Eagles have let Georgia Tech re-establish a 10 point lead at 54-44.
*Yet another steal and drive for a slam dunk by the Yellow Yackets to make it 73-54 with 4-1/2 minutes left to play.
*The buzzer sounds ending the game with Georgia Tech thumping the Eagles 84-65.
*The Eagles were simply out-played. They let the Yellow Jackets hit 55% of their FG’s and 43% of their 3’s. BC also had 16 turnovers with 7 of those leading to fast-break layins.
*BC’s scoring was pretty much confined to just 3 players with Glen Robinson scoring 19, Corey Graham 17, and Tim Cotton 15.
*We’ve got Coach Aura here…what happened tonight, Coach? “DJ, Georgia Tech just totally took us out of our game tonight. We looked off-balance the entire night except for a short period of time early in the 2nd half. Gotta go back to the drawing board and get back on track for our next game.”