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College Basketball Gave Us One of the All-Time Worst Bad Beats

Scott Van Pelt couldn’t believe how the Charleston Southern-Winthrop game ended.

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UNLV Hires Ex-Memphis, Georgia Tech Coach Josh Pastner

The Rebels are starting fresh amid a 12-year NCAA men's tournament drought.

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Mark Bradley: Georgia Tech’s not-so-secret door to hoops redemption? Players.

ATLANTA — Josh Pastner isn’t out of work because he couldn’t draw up a nifty inbounds play. He won an ACC tournament with players no NBA team deemed worthy of drafting. Georgia Tech fired Pastner because he was forever facing an uphill slog, which shouldn’t happen to an ACC program…

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Damon Stoudamire: ‘Georgia Tech provides for me a chance to win big’

ATLANTA — On Friday evening, Damon Stoudamire was an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics who had just arrived in Atlanta for a Saturday night game against the Hawks. That’s when he received a call from a search firm. It was not out of the ordinary.

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Georgia Tech’s Damon Stoudamire wants to ‘get back to winning championships’

When Georgia Tech athletic director J Batt gave the floor to his new basketball coach, Damon Stoudamire pulled up his chair and prepared to give his introductory address.

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Mark Bradley: Damon Stoudamire’s job - return Georgia Tech to the fast track

The surprise isn’t so much that Georgia Tech has hired Damon Stoudamire. It’s that the Jackets hired him so fast. Not 80 hours ago, Josh Pastner – another Arizona alumnus – still had the job. But if you’re sure this is who you want, there’s no reason to string things…

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Damon Stoudamire hired as Georgia Tech’s next head coach

Georgia Tech moved quickly to chart its new course in men’s basketball. Boston Celtics assistant coach Damon Stoudamire was hired Monday as the new coach of the Yellow Jackets. Following reports of the 13-year NBA veteran emerging as a candidate in the morning, the hire was finalized in the afternoon.

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Georgia Tech to Hire Celtics Assistant Damon Stoudamire, per Report

Stoudamire will replace recently fired Josh Pastner.

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Report: Celtics assistant Damon Stoudamire to take Georgia Tech head coaching job

The Boston Celtics' coaching staff will see perhaps more turnover than usual this coming offseason.

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Josh Pastner out at Georgia Tech after seven seasons

ATLANTA — He led Georgia Tech to its highest height in more than 15 years, but was unable to sustain that success. After two seasons in which the Jackets ranked among the least successful teams among the power conferences, coach Josh Pastner was dismissed Friday at the end of his…

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Georgia Tech Fires MBB Coach Josh Pastner, per Report

The coach had been with the team for seven seasons.

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Georgia Tech escapes with win over Florida State in ACC tournament

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Off its game at the start and behind for most of the game, Georgia Tech found a way into the second round of the ACC tournament.

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Bearing loss, Georgia Tech’s Kyle Sturdivant soars

Before Georgia Tech guard Kyle Sturdivant’s game ignited and helped set in motion the Yellow Jackets’ unlikely finish to the regular season, he already stood apart.

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Georgia Tech intends to make noise at ACC Tournament

The work of ruining Boston College’s Senior Day complete, Georgia Tech guards Miles Kelly and Lance Terry were on to their next objective – depleting a Boston-area gas station of its stocks of candy.

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Michael Cunningham: Georgia Tech men’s basketball shouldn’t be this bad

This season’s Georgia Tech men’s basketball team is the worst-ever in Ken Pomeroy’s statistical rankings, which date to the 2001-02 season. The 2009 Yellow Jackets finished 2-14 in the ACC, but at least they lost a lot of close games. This season’s Jackets are 1-10 in the ACC, and the…

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Georgia Tech turnovers lead to pummeling by No. 13 Virginia

ATLANTA — To have a chance against No. 13 Virginia on Saturday, Georgia Tech needed to play at its peak. Yellow Jackets coach Josh Pastner had aimed to have his team primed for its first post-Christmas game, grinding players through a week of intense practice sessions to address weaknesses and…

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After Coach K’s retirement from Duke, the ACC, and college basketball, seek new voice

On the day before what turned out to be the final game of his 47-year head-coaching career, Mike Krzyzewski wanted to make something clear. His thoughts shifted from the task at hand, and his Duke team’s challenge of playing against North Carolina in the Final Four, to the state of…

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In football-first world of college athletics, where does that leave ACC basketball?

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — Almost five months after he became the fifth commissioner in ACC history, Jim Phillips stood in front of a crowded hotel banquet room in Charlotte and emphasized the single priority most critical to the league’s future. It was Phillips’ first major public appearance in his new…

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ACC coaches ponder repair of basketball credibility

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — Before they could entertain the pressing matters that are poised to shake up college athletics — namely, the transfer portal and name, image and likeness — the ACC men's basketball coaches had a higher priority upon gathering at this week's conference spring meetings.

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Luke DeCock: The ACC has plenty to shout about after its first-weekend NCAA tournament performance

So maybe Josh Pastner was right all along.

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As season nears end, Rodney Howard may be finding his form

In the final quarter of the season, two of Georgia Tech’s season-long quests may have been achieved. Coach Josh Pastner’s desire for production out of the post and a consistent third scorer may have been met in the form of center Rodney Howard.

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ACC men's basketball is enduring one of its worst seasons in decades. How did it get here?

Whether it was an extra cup of coffee that morning or just the eternal optimism he perpetually exudes, Josh Pastner joined the ACC men's basketball coaches teleconference on Jan. 17 with a certain zeal.

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