In this weekly feature, we’ll take a look at what Tech’s finest are up to since leaving the Institute. This week, we focus on former basketball Jackets in preparation for the upcoming season.
Seeing Josh Partner and crew raise the ACC Championship trophy in March was a long time coming. We’d seen incremental improvements, an NIT championship run that felt like the start of something real, upsets over highly ranked ACC foes that brought the thunder back to the Thunderdome, but hadn’t seen it all come together for the Jackets. The 2020-2021 season did not start how we’d hoped, but the hardware at the end was a fitting salve, proving that commitment and cohesion produce truly great things.