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Georgia Tech Suspends Tadric Jackson, Josh Okogie for Accepting Benefits

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets basketball team is reportedly being proactive with player discipline while it waits to hear from the NCAA.

On Thursday, Ken Sugiura of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported guards Tadric Jackson and Josh Okogie will not travel with the team for its Nov. 10 season-opener against UCLA in Shanghai.

The school is withholding the players from competition after they "accepted preferential treatment, benefits or services in the form of apparel, meals and transportation," per Sugiura. "The school self-reported the violations and is awaiting the NCAA's ruling on the length of the suspension.