There’s no doubting the improvement that Georgia Tech made this season, jumping from 12-19 to 19-14 and an expected berth in the NIT.
For Tech’s recent history, it was a good season. For their standards of late, the Yellow Jackets were agonizingly close to a great season.
How close?
You may not want to know.
If Tech had beaten East Tennessee State and Virginia Tech instead of losing to them by one point each, the Jackets would probably be headed for the NCAA tournament.
Flipping the losses, which were arguably the team’s two worst of the season, Tech would be 37th in RPI, according to rpiforecast.