In the ACC Tournament last season against Wake Forest, Georgia Tech women’s basketball played one of their ugliest yet defensively stout wins in recent memory, winning 45-40 before losing to Notre Dame in the 2nd round. On January 8, the Deamon Deacons and Yellow Jackets played in a very similar, low scoring game.
Jewel Spear, Wake’s overall best player and recent newcomer to the 1,000 career point club, sat out the game, breaking her 72 consecutive games-started streak. It was also Tech’s first game against Wake’s new head coach, Megan Gebbia.
For the second consecutive game, Tech head coach Nell Fortner used a freshmen heavy starting guard lineup with Kara Dunn, Inés Noguero, and Tonie Morgan while leaving Cameron Swartz and Bianca Jackson on the bench.