Friday, November 23, 2018

Georgia Tech Hosts Prairie View A&M In Holiday Matinee


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 ATLANTA, Georgia -- Georgia Tech plays its fourth home game of the 2018-19 season and the second in three days on Friday afternoon when the Yellow Jackets take on Prairie View A&M at 4 p.m. at McCamish Pavilion.

 Tech (3-1), in its third season under head coach Josh Pastner, has won all three of its home games in convincing fashion, by an average of 28.8 points over Lamar, East Carolina and UT Rio Grande Valley, sandwiched around a 66-53 road loss at No. 5 Tennessee.

 Prairie View A&M (1-5), in its third season under head coach Byron Smith, has lost its last five games following a season-opening 81-64 victory at Santa Clara. The Panthers play their first 12 games of the season on the road before hosting Hutson-Tillotson on Jan. 2.

 Friday’s game will be streamed live on ACC Network Extra through the ESPN app. Radio coverage is provided on the Georgia Tech IMG Sports Network, airing in Atlanta on 680 AM and 93.7 FM the Fan. The Tech broadcast can also be heard on satellite radio (XM ch. 388, internet ch. 979).

 STARTING LINEUP
  • 104th season – Georgia Tech is playing its 104th season of basketball and has an all-time record of 1,365-1,227.
  • Showcase – Georgia Tech and its first four home opponents (Lamar, East Carolina, UTRGV, Prairie View A&M) are part of an NCAA-exempt multi-team event known as the Deep South Showcase, in which each team plays the other four. The Yellow Jackets and Panthers finish out the event Friday.
      • SERIES VS. PRAIRIE VIEW A&M
    • Georgia Tech and Prairie View A&M are meeting for the first time on Friday afternoon. With the game, Texas Southern becomes the only SWAC team that Tech has never faced.
    • The Yellow Jackets have a long history of playing teams from the Southwestern Athletic Conference, dating back to the first of their five meetings against Alabama A&M in 1982.
    • Tech is 18-2 all-time against the SWAC, including a 64-63 home loss to Grambling State last Dec. 1 at McCamish Pavilion. The jackets also lost to Southern University in the first round of the 1993 NCAA Tournament.
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