Yellow Jacket Roundup: Bittersweet Sixteen

Danny Karnik / Georgia Tech Athletics Kierra Fletcher and Nell Fortner at Senior NightATLANTA, GEORGIA — So, this is what the postseason life is like? I’m not sure how to feel about it. We’ll dive into the women’s basketball results a little more later on, but the Jackets have really given us a taste of the postseason in quite a few sports this year. I don’t know how the Director’s Cup score is tallied - I went looking for the most recent update today and, well, found nothing since before the pandemic - but we are quite a long way from the bottom of the barrel we were scraping on that a few years ago. Of programs that have completed competition for the academic year, only football and men’s cross country did not appear in NCAA competition, or send at least one individual to NCAAs in their sport. I’d say that it pretty darn solid. For the last time this year for a few of our sports (women’s basketball, men’s swimming), let’s dive in.

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