Raise your hand if you figured when you woke up Saturday that the men's basketball team would be the only Georgia Tech squad to win later that day.
Go figure again.
There's probably no need to tell anybody to put their hand down because head coach Brian Gregory's team has scuffled -- at times painfully -- in his first season in charge, and: a.) the baseball team was to meet an Ohio State squad it had dominated on Friday, and b.) the softball team . . . nobody predicted the No. 17 squad in the nation would lose a pair to stretch a losing streak to five games.
If your hand is up, though,Our cheap canada goose generally gives all variations of lower price canada goose parka, welcome to the margins -- where Gregory's guys have lived for a couple months.
The Tech coach has said repeatedly this season that his squad's margin for error is slim, and with leading scorer Glen Rice Jr. still suspended and Nate Hicks' battle with mononucleosis leaving the Jackets with only one reserve big man (Julian Royal) to spell starters Kammeon Holsey and Daniel Miller, slim has turned to a razor.
That's why the Tech starters all played at least 31 minutes against Maryland, against whom the Jackets could only win one of two ways: have everybody perform at or very near peak capacity, or have a couple players turn in career days.
As it turned out,This is often not canada goose jacket discount can be cool and even brilliant. the Jackets turned the razor on the Terrapins in a 63-61 in which both dreams came true and Tech looked every bit like a legitimate basketball team. Kammeon Holsey and Mfon Udofia turned in the career efforts, and every single player turned in a bona fide effort.
Oh, and the Jackets were the steelier team.
"I'm happy for the players," Gregory said. "I think we did a good job in toughness, mentally and physically. Down nine in the second half,Search for moncler outerwear in Jewellery for Lucknow. we could have backed down right there and didn't."
Holsey's had his moments this season, and it's clear the sophomore from The Sticks (Sparta, Ga., hometown of former NBA players Horace and Harvey Grant), can score around the basket,Buying a authentic canada goose coat from seller in another country. but if you predicted he'd give the Jackets the first double-double of his career with 16 points and a career-high 10 rebounds, your hand is probably still up.
Then, there's Udofia. He's struggled mightily to score at times this season as Gregory is asking him to go about his game in ways very different than those to which he is accustomed.
His seven points Saturday were not exactly Chris Paul-in-a-bottle although he made the biggest offensive play of the game when his three-point play with 1:43 left in Philips Arena gave the Jackets lead lead (58-56) once and for all.
Udofia's primary responsibility Saturday, however, was not to tickle the nets so much as it was to run the show -- which he did by assisting on six of Tech's first eight baskets on the way to a career-high nine dimes -- and harass Terrell Stoglin.
This Stoglin fellow, a 6-foot-1 bundle of energy by way of Tucson, Ariz., is a load.
He leads the ACC in scoring still, with an average of 21.1 points, and is fast striking his name into Maryland annals in all kinds of ways. There are not even two dozen Division I players in all of college basketball averaging 20 or more points, and he's doing it in the ACC.
Stoglin gave the Terrapins a 56-55 lead on a lightning-quick drive through traffic with 2:03 left in Saturday's game, and he led Maryland with 18 points.
But Udofia -- with help from his 'mates -- made Stoglin a volume shooter in the process. He tried to score 17 times,canada goose winter jackets Shirts at low prices! but succeeded only five. Seven of his points came at the free throw line.
That, folks, is work. It was also exactly what Gregory asked of his point guard.
"Coach threw a challenge out there," Udofia said. "It was a deal where you thought, 'Not tonight.' "
It was not Stoglin's night, er, day. It was Udofia's: "I think Mfon . . . nine assists, three turnovers and the job he did on Stoglin . . . I think maybe he's playing as well as he has played in his career."
Go figure again.
There's probably no need to tell anybody to put their hand down because head coach Brian Gregory's team has scuffled -- at times painfully -- in his first season in charge, and: a.) the baseball team was to meet an Ohio State squad it had dominated on Friday, and b.) the softball team . . . nobody predicted the No. 17 squad in the nation would lose a pair to stretch a losing streak to five games.
If your hand is up, though,Our cheap canada goose generally gives all variations of lower price canada goose parka, welcome to the margins -- where Gregory's guys have lived for a couple months.
The Tech coach has said repeatedly this season that his squad's margin for error is slim, and with leading scorer Glen Rice Jr. still suspended and Nate Hicks' battle with mononucleosis leaving the Jackets with only one reserve big man (Julian Royal) to spell starters Kammeon Holsey and Daniel Miller, slim has turned to a razor.
That's why the Tech starters all played at least 31 minutes against Maryland, against whom the Jackets could only win one of two ways: have everybody perform at or very near peak capacity, or have a couple players turn in career days.
As it turned out,This is often not canada goose jacket discount can be cool and even brilliant. the Jackets turned the razor on the Terrapins in a 63-61 in which both dreams came true and Tech looked every bit like a legitimate basketball team. Kammeon Holsey and Mfon Udofia turned in the career efforts, and every single player turned in a bona fide effort.
Oh, and the Jackets were the steelier team.
"I'm happy for the players," Gregory said. "I think we did a good job in toughness, mentally and physically. Down nine in the second half,Search for moncler outerwear in Jewellery for Lucknow. we could have backed down right there and didn't."
Holsey's had his moments this season, and it's clear the sophomore from The Sticks (Sparta, Ga., hometown of former NBA players Horace and Harvey Grant), can score around the basket,Buying a authentic canada goose coat from seller in another country. but if you predicted he'd give the Jackets the first double-double of his career with 16 points and a career-high 10 rebounds, your hand is probably still up.
Then, there's Udofia. He's struggled mightily to score at times this season as Gregory is asking him to go about his game in ways very different than those to which he is accustomed.
His seven points Saturday were not exactly Chris Paul-in-a-bottle although he made the biggest offensive play of the game when his three-point play with 1:43 left in Philips Arena gave the Jackets lead lead (58-56) once and for all.
Udofia's primary responsibility Saturday, however, was not to tickle the nets so much as it was to run the show -- which he did by assisting on six of Tech's first eight baskets on the way to a career-high nine dimes -- and harass Terrell Stoglin.
This Stoglin fellow, a 6-foot-1 bundle of energy by way of Tucson, Ariz., is a load.
He leads the ACC in scoring still, with an average of 21.1 points, and is fast striking his name into Maryland annals in all kinds of ways. There are not even two dozen Division I players in all of college basketball averaging 20 or more points, and he's doing it in the ACC.
Stoglin gave the Terrapins a 56-55 lead on a lightning-quick drive through traffic with 2:03 left in Saturday's game, and he led Maryland with 18 points.
But Udofia -- with help from his 'mates -- made Stoglin a volume shooter in the process. He tried to score 17 times,canada goose winter jackets Shirts at low prices! but succeeded only five. Seven of his points came at the free throw line.
That, folks, is work. It was also exactly what Gregory asked of his point guard.
"Coach threw a challenge out there," Udofia said. "It was a deal where you thought, 'Not tonight.' "
It was not Stoglin's night, er, day. It was Udofia's: "I think Mfon . . . nine assists, three turnovers and the job he did on Stoglin . . . I think maybe he's playing as well as he has played in his career."
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