Georgia Tech Basketball: 2018-19 season preview for the Yellow Jackets
Overview for Georgia Tech this upcoming season
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets don’t have the toughest non-conference schedule but it has some quality games against Tennessee, Northwestern, St. John’s, Arkansas and Georgia on it. Head coach Josh Pastner will need to do better than 6-12 in the ACC in 2018-19 and his non-conference slate certainly should help with those efforts in the early going.
The Yellow Jackets lost seven-straight games in ACC play at one point last season. Injuries to some key contributors threw a wrench in any potential success last year, making health one of the main focuses this upcoming season. Jose Alvarado and Curtis Haywood II are healthy and ready to go, now they’ll just need to keep it that way.
With many other deeper teams across the conference, it’s hard to project Georgia Tech to finish anywhere beyond the middle of the pack. Josh Okogie helped lift their profile in 2017-18 but they don’t have a quality scorer like him in this year’s rotation, which could be costly for them as they look to finish better than 13th in conference play.
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It will be tough sledding in a conference with the Virginia Cavaliers, Duke Blue Devils, NC State Wolfpack and Virginia Tech Hokies but Coach Pastner could have something up his sleeve after going 21-16 in his first season as head coach back in 2016-17.