Neither team played particularly great, but Georgia Tech did just a little bit more to take the all-important first game of the three-game series.
Sports can be its most beautiful in its simplicity. Regardless of the outcome of Thursday's first game between Georgia Tech and Boston College, we would always know that the rest of the series would be at its easiest to understand. The team that would lose would have to win to keep their ACC Tournament hopes (without help) alive, and the team that would win would be on the cusp of doing something pretty special.