ACC Tournament Seeding Scenarios For Georgia Tech Entering Saturday
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Today is the final day of ACC regular season play and the conference tournament is going to begin next week. Georgia Tech is on the road tonight facing Virginia and looking for their fourth straight win and while they are already locked into the bottom six of the ACC and will have to play a first-round game on Tuesday, they are one of the hottest teams in the conference.
Here are the scenarios for Georgia Tech entering the final day of regular season play:
Four of the teams in the bottom five of the ACC standings are on the road Saturday. Georgia Tech is at Virginia, Notre Dame is at Virginia Tech, Miami is at Florida State, and Boston College plays at Louisville.
Tech can be seeded no higher than No. 11 in next week’s ACC Tournament, and no lower than No. 14, which means the Yellow Jackets will play in either the 2 p.m. game (12 seed vs. 13 seed) or the 7 p.m. game (11 vs. 14) in the opening round of next week’s ACC Tournament.
Seed scenarios may all shake out before Tech and UVA, the final game of the day, tip-off on Saturday.
· Georgia Tech loses two-way tiebreakers with Boston College and Notre Dame and wins a two-way tiebreaker with Miami.
· If Miami loses Saturday, it will be the 14 seed.
· If Boston College wins Saturday, it will be the No. 11 seed.
· If Georgia Tech wins and BC and Notre Dame both lose, Tech would be the 11 seed and play either BC, Miami, or ND at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
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· If BC, Tech, and Notre Dame all win Saturday (3-way tie at 8-12), Tech would be the 13 seed because it is 0-3 against the other two. BC is 3-0 vs. the other two and would be the 11th seed, while Notre Dame would be No. 12 (2-2 vs. the other two). Tech would play Notre Dame at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
· If BC, Tech, and Notre Dame lose and Miami wins, creating a 4-way tie for 11th at 7-13, Tech would be the 14 seed because it has the worst record against the other three teams (1-3). In that scenario, BC would get the 11 seed, Miami would be 12, Notre Dame 13, and Tech 14. Tech would face BC at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
· Also, if BC wins, Tech and Notre Dame lose and Miami wins, there would a 3-way tie for 12th at 7-13. Tech would be the 14 seed in this scenario (1-2 vs. the other two teams) and play BC at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
