Game 31: Georgia Tech (ACC Tournament)

It's time for the second season, where it's one loss and you are done. Luckily for us, we also have the NCAA Tournament to look forward too.

Today begins Revenge Weekend for the Terps. First up in our path, Georgia Tech who beat us by 5 roughly a month ago and defeated Miami handily last night.


Georgia Tech heads into the game knowing they can beat us and full of confidence. The key to their team is their defense. They like to play a lot of switching zones as well as pressing. Pressing is how they built their lead yesterday. Their weakness is that they are lacking in height. I think they also to struggle to come from behind, so they like to jump on opponents early.

Keys to the Game

Attack the paint. With GT's lack of height, it is important for Lang, Jade and Harper to score as many points as they can in the paint and force GT to drop into the post and open up our shooters. One of GT's post players Kentrina Wilson has a broken hand and thus won't be that effective on the defensive end.

Take away the penetration. In the first game, GT would use dribble penetration to create baskets or draw contact. They love to run the high-low pick play where Higgs dribbles off the pick to cut to the basket. Yesterday, I noticed they know have Mitchell driving from the top of the key.

Take the ball and go. We can't allow GT to set up their defense and the best way to combat is to take the ball and rush up the court and score quickly.

Hit our shots and don't worry if we miss one or two. Miami seemed to have an easy time getting off shots from 3-pt range. We shoot better than Miami so we should have an easier time of scoring from outside.

Build an early lead. Like I said earlier, I don't think GT is able to play from behind so we need to build a big lead early and continue to stretch that lead.

Rebound. With our height advantage there is no reason for us to not outrebound them. All their players attack the glass, so a rebound and quick outlet could result in an easy basket.

Play with emotion. It's time to bring the fire we had all last year.

Game is on WMUC and ACC Select.