Georgia Tech Upsets UNC in Thrilling Conference Matchup
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00:00 the number three tar heals a perfect nine and O in ACC play.
00:08 Carolina had won 10 straight games entering last night in
00:12 Atlanta. We know it is very difficult to win on the road in
00:18 conference play, but UNC was booked as an eight and a half
00:22 point favorite against a Georgia Tech team that was two
00:25 and seven in the ACC, losers of three in a row entering last
00:31 night. But that is the beauty of college basketball that each
00:35 and every night crazy things can happen as we saw in the ATL.
00:40 Nathan George, a layup just under eight ticks remaining in
00:44 regulation, the game winning shot for Damon Stoudemire and
00:48 Georgia Tech. Seventy-four, seventy-three, the Yellow
00:51 Jackets upset North Carolina and went outright as an eight and a
00:55 half point underdog. The ultimate equalizer in college
00:58 basketball as we know is the three-point line, Ben. Take
01:01 advantage of it and your opponent doesn't, you have a
01:03 leg up in that game. Even though Georgia Tech, I don't
01:05 think many people saw this upset coming a mile away. 28%
01:09 from the three-point line for the Carolina Tar Heels matched
01:12 up with 45% from the three-point line for Georgia
01:15 Tech. That keeps you in there and also not getting those free
01:19 free throws that we like to call, right? Nine of seventeen
01:22 for the free throw line for UNC. Not good enough. You're
01:25 52%. Then you flip it back over there to Georgia Tech who
01:27 shot 88% from the free throw line. In a close game, you lose
01:31 the three-point battle and the free throw battle, you're
01:33 probably gonna lose the game particularly going on the road.
01:36 That's a bad loss for the Tar Heels but I tell you right now
01:38 down on Tobacco Road, the Duke Blue Devils standing up right
01:41 now at attention going, you know what? That's a nice loss
01:44 there for those Tar Heels. Let's see if we can go track
01:46 them down now.
01:49 (upbeat music)