Tech welcomes Tennessee Tech to McCamish on Friday night only to watch the Golden Eagles run them off the floor. The early part of the season is Tech’s best chance at a win, but of the five early games, the Jackets only wrangle two wins. As the team hits the meat of the non-conference schedule, losses pile up culminating in a home embarrassment at the hands of Georgia. The Jackets end the non-conference schedule with just four wins.
What’s going wrong? Well...everything. The Jackets don’t have the ballhandling to effectively run Pastner’s uptempo scheme leading to tons of turnovers and easy baskets going the other direction.