At a podium set up in Georgia Tech’s weight room, Richt didn’t sound like a coach ready to voluntarily step down.
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Two plays later, Thomas lofted a pass towards the right corner of the end zone that Jeune made an acrobatic catch on for the score that pulled Tech to within 13-7 with 2:46 left, and ensuring the Jackets would not be shut out for the first time since 1997, and the first time against Georgia since 1964.
“Nobody was better today than Charles”, Yellow Jackets Coach Brian Gregory said.
With both teams focused on the run and controlling the clock, there’s still enough value to look at this game under the total.
The difference ended up being UGA running back Sony Michel’s ability to break big plays that got the Bulldogs into plus-territory. They should have gotten a good dose of that. “He has not been a great defensive rebounder because it’s a different dynamic”.
“He should have had 20 rebounds”, Gregory said. He’s bought in to me really having high standards.
“Just energy plays”, Mitchell said.
Moses Kingsley, Arkansas’ 6-10 junior, was limited to 23 minutes because of foul trouble.
The Bulldogs recorded 224 passing yards, which is good for them because they have had their issues throwing the ball this year. It was fourth-and-7 and that’s what everyone is doing, punt safe on the sideline just to make sure our punt team doesn’t go on the field and our safe group goes if in fact they punt. “I thought our lack of physicality was very evident”. The Yellow Jackets made eight 3s, all from Smith and swingman Marcus Georges-Hunt. The score may not show it, but it was probably the best game they played since the beginning of the season. Josh Hart is averaging 16.5 points and 6.8 rebounds while Ryan Arcidiacono is averaging 13.3 points and 5.5 assists. Georgia Tech linebacker P.J. Davis was ejected for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the third quarter.
Arkansas: This is the Razorbacks second trip to NY for the NIT Season Tip-Off.
Arkansas 6-10 senior Willy Kouassi, a graduate transfer from Kennesaw (Ga.) State, had 5 points, 2 rebounds and 2 blocked shots in 15 minutes off the bench. He was helped off the court by a member of the training staff and guard Anthlon Bell before going to the locker room.
The Arkansas Razorbacks basketball squad will spend Thanksgiving in the Big Apple, but Mike Anderson’s Hogs won’t be watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, skating at Rockefeller Center or getting a jump on their Christmas shopping.
Three members of the Brooklyn Nets sat courtside. The game also airs as a live stream online.
This was the first meeting in school history against Northern Iowa.
Typical of the season was the way Georgia Tech was unable to run the ball with authority (194 yards, the fifth time it has been held to fewer than 200 yards).
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“A microcosm of our season”, Johnson moaned.
